Ron Mertens’ blog

Michal has posted about this a few minutes ago, but here’s my chance to write about Avatar, too. We’re back in Israel now, and a couple of days ago we went to see it.  It’s one of those ‘must-see’ movies, and I also wanted to check the 3D, of course.
Anyway, the movie is great! We [...]

PicoProjector-Info.com is running a new twitter giveaway in which you can win a new 3M MPro-120 pico projector (640×480, 12 lumens, up to 50″ images).
All you have to do is follow on twitter and send a short message about the giveaway. More details here.

Conduit is a nice Israeli company… allowing people to easily create toolbars. I’ve created quite a few of those, for TripTouch, AdSenseLog, OLED-Info and others.  None of these have been really succesful, by the way
I’ve been in touch with several nice guys from Conduit… and last week they sent me a cool mug [...]

It’s been a while since I posted here… but don’t worry – I’m still alive.  Busy, but alive.  Abigail is still taking up most of our time. She’s growing nicely (well, not a lot, weight wise) and getting more fun by the day. Now it’s mostly saying “Abba” to everything and everyone (pointing randomly at [...]

A lot of people want to start developing a web site, and for some reason talk to me about it.  Many are developers,  just starting out with web development…  I always recommend reading a book called “Building Scalable Web Sites“.  It’s a great read, with lot’s of info on hosting, DB, programming, security, performance, scalability [...]

A long time after I updated OLED-info’s design, I finally did it for my other older blogs – Spintronics, MRAM and ExpressCard. I think they look better

I’ve just launched a new blog (yeah… another) – this time on e-ink displays. E-Ink is used in book readers (and other devices) as they consume very little power and are very easy on the eye – it’s almost like reading a real book. The screen has no backlight (in fact it requires no power [...]

Have you ever heard of Link-Bait? The idea is to create great content, that will ‘make’ people link to you. One of the ideas used in link-baiting is contests…
So here I go – I published my first contest, at oled-info.com. Kodak has agreed to give one OLED photo frame (worth around 800$) to the winner. [...]

I just finished ready a new book ‘Building Findable web sites‘, by Aaron Walter. This is part of my quest to learn SEO.
So what’s my verdict? I’m not so happy with this book. The idea is good – talking about ‘Findability’, which is more than SEO. He defines the findability of a web site as

the [...]

I’ve always used Eclipse for my PHP coding. I decided to check whether it’s worthwhile to switch to a commercial editor… I checked a couple of editors (PHPEdit and PHPEd, what great creative names!) – and decided to stay with Eclipse. I didn’t like the ‘look’ of these two, and frankly I didn’t see any [...]