Spiderz® - Dubai's Favourite Web Factory

Posted on November 1, 2008 - by Yasser

One minute introduction: 20 qualities that set us apart

Welcome

Fully-serviced¹, Dubai based², web design studio. Established in 2002³. 150+ corporate clients⁴.
Dedicated⁵, qualified⁶ team. Powerful Mac-based project management⁷. Multi-industry expertise⁸.
Gorgeous artwork⁹. New media branding¹⁰. Web 2.0 development¹¹. Managed web hosting¹².
Rigorous quality assurance¹³. Courteous¹⁴, diligent¹⁵ support team. On-time incident resolution¹⁶.
Packaged web solutions¹⁷. Standardized¹⁸, all-inclusive¹⁹ service charges. Intelligible price points²⁰.

A thought or two...

Published since March 2008

Posted on May 24, 2009 - by Yasser

Spiderz is seven years old! Almost…

News

On June 3rd, 2009, Spiderz Web International will be seven years old.
Great achievement team! :D
Thank you all customers! :D

Posted on March 26, 2009 - by Yasser

Twitter may eventually kill Google search…

Thought Web/Tech

With time, Twitter or a similar service will kill Google search and every other search engine that we’ve known. We are about to experience the dawn of a new search system that will surpass services like Google search and the others.
The day when search will be powered by Humans and not algorithms is near.
As tens [...]

Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser

Setting up your iPhone to retrieve emails every 15 seconds or so!

Web/Tech

This is a fantastic hack if you own one of the jailbroken iPhones. I found it over here and after reading through the document and comments it was quite easy to get my iPhone 2G (Firmware 2.1) to check emails every 15 seconds (or so, you can set any number of seconds).
To accomplish this you [...]

Posted on March 19, 2009 - by Yasser

Develop a process, a formula, an algorithm…

Sales

At Spiderz we charge AED. 370 per hour for web site maintenance. This is our hourly base rate. When customers request updates to their web sites, we use the hourly base rate to calculate number of hours of work required on a project. This helps us establish a cost fairly quickly.
If you deal with customers [...]

Posted on March 12, 2009 - by Yasser

Ignoring versioned and unversioned directories in subversion using TortoiseSVN

Web/Tech

This for times when you want to exclude some folders or files from your code repositories. If your folder or files are not yet added to the repo simply right click and under TortoiseSVN select the Ignore option. Here’s how this looks:

If you’ve got folders that you’ve already versioned into the repo and would like [...]