Recently I’ve come to a realization: A web site doesn’t have to have to have a slick Web 2.0ish look to be popular.
Just look at some of the most popular web sites:
Craigslist
Wikipedia
Google
PlentyOfFish
MySpace
Orkut
All of those websites have a very down-to-earth or in some cases downright clumsy design. But it doesn’t matter, I think the […]
The Delphi effect is described by Eric S Raymond in his book, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" as follows:
"Sociologists discovered that the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert or equally ignorant observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly-chosen one of the […]
One of the most useful things to learn in programming is regular expressions. Knowing how to use regular expressions could save you a TON of time and make your applications more efficient.
I recently compiled a small list of sites/blogs which have excellent reference material on regular expressions. Here it is:
The absolute bare minimum every programmer […]
Well this Silverlight stuff has definitely got me exited. There is a lot of talk about it. Robert Scoble says “Microsoft rebooted the Web“. Michael Arrington says, “it makes Flash/Flex look like an absolute toy“. Basically there is a LOT of discussion/debate about it in the blogosphere.
But of course this is just the beginning […]
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