Being Mark Cohen
Blog URL http://beingmarkcohen.com
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags technology, CIO, geek, scrum, microsoft, apple, web, seo
Mark Cohen is a CIO at Australia's largest online retailer and is a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up, code-cutting geek. He lives in Sydney, Australia
Latest Blog Posts
- My before-I-even-start setup on a Mac on Oct 29, 2009 in Uncategorized
We’re rolling out new Macs at work in my team, and so I’m revisiting my must-have-done-before-I-start list. This is a list of things I’ve picked up from a lot of helpful and friendly mac users along the way: Setup: An up-to-date...
- Thoughts on #tech23 on Oct 27, 2009 in Business Web
I spent the day at the Tech23 event in Surry Hills today, seeing some of what the Australian startup scene has to offer. There were a wide array of startups – some pitching to get started and some already off the ground, pitching to get equit...
- Reset print queues on a mac on Oct 14, 2009 in Uncategorized
Slightly dangerous mactip only for the Mac techies Go system preferences / Printers. Right-click any printer installed. Choose Reset printing system and all printers get wiped, all queues deleted, etc...
- #WDS09 jQuery – Session notes on Oct 8, 2009 in Uncategorized
My notes from the presentation: Sprites are cool, they were cool before and they’re still cool. Pillage ideas from late 80’s sci fi. Oh look, a bird. Forty two. Oh and don’t diss 8 bit. It’s also way cool. That was th...
- #WDS09 – Speed Matters (Brain Dump) on Oct 8, 2009 in Uncategorized
Speed Matters – by @markstanto Things to come back to and probably search for later Some of the concepts to be aware of: Empty cache / primed cache Refresh / revisit Page ready / page complete Throughput / Latency Latency – overhead c...
- Testing posterous on Sep 23, 2009 in Uncategorized
If this works I’ll be very impressed. Testing sending an email with an image in it. Here’s a great drawing from @gapingvoid Posted via email from Mark’s posterous [Update: Wow, it works! Check out this page on Posterous - ht...
- It’s only a Perfect Storm when you concede defeat on Sep 23, 2009 in Web
I have some hobby sites I play with to keep me entertained. The biggest one suffered what I would describe as a perfect storm. One part of the application broke because a third party API I use started throwing warning messages that their wrapper di...
