
Are you using Wordpress for your blog? Who isn't :-) But a fairly simple sounding task like tracking conversions for Adwords campaigns actually requires a bit of work.
This comic perfectly captures that elusive but all-important question: what are the universal hallmarks of good quality code.
From the recent BusinessWeek article, I found the 'lessons learned' snippets at the end of these finalists very insightful
It's taken quite a while and a combination of apps but I finally have a really good sync setup between the iPhone and my contacts and calendar.
Some great jquery form tips from Laszlo, I also used the jQuery form plugin in the recent comment2 module.
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In this video we see Hitler castigating his core dev team for failing to to be true to Agile methodologies and cutting corners on their testing.
Some interesting slides from Mack Collier
This is pretty good ![]()
via David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.
Check out the whole Startup School ‘08 Series.
Posted on 01 July 2010
I’ve avoided upgrading to Snow Leopard for ages for a number of reasons: didn’t want to spend ages re-setting up all my ports, I’ve heard SL creates a havoc wanted to maintain java apps that stop working in SL, like Zend 5.5 (it may be old but still has the best debugger around) wasn’t crazy about tinkering with [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2010
For once google returned an effective answer to solve a bizarre problem. Do you have the problem that Terminal.app takes ages before a prompt shows up when you open a new tab? So did I – here’s the fix: sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/* via Shannon Hicks Continue Reading
Posted on 09 June 2010
Recommended reading How I took my web-app to market in 3 days thanks to common services in the cloud | TK’s weblog – Why develop a feature when you can bolt on a 3rd party service that does just as good a job, if not better OAuth Support in NetBeans IDE 6.9 | NetBeans Zone – [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 June 2010
O’Reilly asked me to be a technical reviewer for this book by Robin Nixon, I forgot to mention that it was published several months ago. If you’re a newb I recommend giving it a read, you can pick up a copy on Amazon. Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2010
Recommended reading While You Slept, They Hacked #tcdisrupt – Watch the video, some interesting hacking projects Google i/o 2010 – GWT + Spring – This is one of the more impressive videos from this year's Google I/O event, here you can see how VMware (of all people) organised an effort to combine the predominant backend Java framework, [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 May 2010
Recommended reading How many lines of code does it take to create the Android OS? – Gubatron.com – Quite a nice way to show, in one table, how complex a project actually is. Wonder what the Objective-C is for? Schema Sync › a MySQL Schema Versioning and Migration Utility – A nice commandline [...] Continue Reading