Somehow, seemingly out of nowhere, Twitterers have started to notice Twitterified. I guess a few positive reviews help. But would Twitterified have received these positive reviews, had it not moved to open beta? I think not. The service was in closed beta for a couple months, which allowed me to kill a few gremlins I found in the system, but [...]

I read Nick Halstead’s “10 Reasons Why I hate Recruitment Agents” with interest. I would like to add two more reasons, that I have personally experienced: 1. Asking me to come meet them This is my favourite one. Nick wrote about agents asking to come meet him. I can see why they try to push for a meeting, this makes [...]

When things start smelling “funny” in the open-source community, they tend to go to the dogs with the haste of a drunk marching band. Today’s drama is brought to you by your friendly ExtJS community. For those of you not familiar with ExtJS, it is a professionally made Javascript library that allows web application developers to create very elaborate desktop-like [...]

Do you have any idea how much disregarding basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) rules can cost you? I have the answer and it’s “a lot“. And take my word for it: I am not an SEO consultant and have nothing to sell, here. Up until last year, one of my sites was wildly popular: militate.com. Note that after achieving success [...]