A few weeks ago I wrote that good design is a dying but important art. While I do believe that is true, there is also too much of a good thing. Sometimes you can get too caught up in the ‘ideal’, worrying and designing things to be perfect. Deciding what is the right blend of [...]

Yahoo! GeoCities is closing. This is in interesting story for a few reasons. Mainly it signifies the end of the model of offering free sites to users with simple advertising money for the host. Now sites are usually a part of a bundle with other services, like premium email. Those who are looking for free [...]

My dell mini 9 arrived 2 weeks ago. I purchased this for the primary reason to work on my blog. I hope to better utilize my commuting hours on the bus. In theory this should allow me to post more and if not more then at least it will give me back some of my [...]

As a web developer you make a product (the website or application) usually for consumers other than yourself. It could be for fellow employees on an intranet, the general public, or some mixture. Because you are creating products for others, you need to code for so many possibilities, especially the least expected. When you deploy [...]

As usual, a semi-weekly wrap up of links, tidbits, and other sites that came across my plate. Code, development, management, anything I found interesting since the last post. Feel free to suggest other links in the comments. Web Tools No new ‘tools’ caught my eye this week. Anyone have anything cool they have been using? [...]

Solid Architecture is a Dying Art When I was in my CS program from 1992-97, we coded in ANSI C and COBOL. As a web developer, a lot of the specific code we wrote is no longer applicable today.  One major concept that was vital to writing code during my college years that I feel [...]