Month: September 2005

Web Development Trends for 2006. Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it… Continue reading Web Development Trends for 2006

Code Debt. I’ve been pondering a new term I heard the other day. The term is “code debt.” I heard it while listening to Jason Fried in this podcast and I can’t stop thinking about it. Code debt to me is very real. It’s the debt you have to keep paying back when you have… Continue reading Code Debt

Power bubbles for the iFolder Linux Client. I've been working to enhance the capability of the notification bubbles in the Linux Client so users will be able to take action immediately when they get a notification (i.e., click on a link presented to them in the bubble). Additionally, I'm strongly contemplating changing the initial modal… Continue reading Power bubbles for the iFolder Linux Client

How to become a hacker. # Monday in a “chatroom interview” in Beijing someone asked me how to become a hacker. (Those of you visiting this web page from the People Magazine article, you should know the term “hacker” here refers to a computer programmer, not an internet vandal). My interlocateur wanted to contribute to… Continue reading How to become a hacker

Think Young. Is there something you loved to do when you were younger but that you stopped doing? Did you stop doing it because you truly outgrew it… or because you got older? If you want to keep your brain sharp… [Creating Passionate Users]

Apologies to pensioner detained as terrorist. LABOUR ministers yesterday offered half-hearted apologies to Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old activist ejected from the party's conference for daring to heckle Jack Straw over the war in Iraq. [The Scotsman]

Learn how search engines rank pages. Over at SEOmoz there is a great page that explains how search engines go about ranking your pages. This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or… Continue reading Learn how search engines rank pages

Desirable Traits in a CIO. Every now and then, I think it would be great to be a CIO, in part because the title seems so cool. As a CIO, you get invited to great conferences for “C level” executives. And you get a great magazine – CIO magazine, one of my favorite magazines Speaking… Continue reading Desirable Traits in a CIO

Iraq turns to Iran for Infrastructure The recent bevy of deals between Iraq and Iran have one common theme: they provide Iraq with the critical infrastructure they need to revive their economy. Deals for oil processing, petrol (which Iraq needs to import), electricity (which is below pre-war levels and half pre gulf war 1 levels),… Continue reading Iraq turns to Iran for Infrastructure

Hey Mary!  Happy Birthday!