Posts from year 2009

Found 29 hits, currently showing 21-29.

Stack Overflow one year later

Stack Overflow one year later

Almost a year ago I noticed that two of my favorite coding bloggers, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, were founding a company together with the amusing name Stack Overflow. Their aim was to create a site with useful information for fellow coders, generated by user content.

Continue reading

The final Tinitus festival

The final Tinitus festival

This weekend I visited the last ever edition of Tinitus festival. The lineup was strong and the festival had been extended to two days.

Continue reading

Keeping your Google juice

Keeping your Google juice

Some time ago a bunch of newspapers demanded to get a higher search rank from Google. The reason was that they wanted to be given a free-ride in page rank, instead of spending time at improving their SEO (search engine optimization) skills. Nice try, insert coin.

Continue reading

The Ipred onslaught

The Ipred onslaught

Today the new Ipred law will go into action. I really wish it was just a tasteless April’s fool joke, but unfortunately it is the bitter truth. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law.

Continue reading

Securing your intellectual property

Securing your intellectual property

I’ve recently seen posts by Rick Strahl and Dave Shea as they discovered that some people were stealing their articles and placing their own name on another blog. Unfortunately, this is nothing new and I’ve seen it happen before on several occasions.

Continue reading

Internet Explorer 8 released at MIX09

Internet Explorer 8 released at MIX09

The first sharp version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at Microsoft’s MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. The last months have seen a harsh public humiliation against the old version 6 where large sites actually warned users.

Continue reading

The Gothenburg freeze

The Gothenburg freeze

After the zombie walk a few months ago it was time to hit the city once more with something weird. Last year I wrote about the “freeze” action in several cities.

Continue reading

Dissecting the new whitehouse.gov

Dissecting the new whitehouse.gov

There is a great new guy in the White House and he’s got a brand new website as well. The official whitehouse.gov had a major overhaul and the result is quite nice. They use ASP.NET 2.0, but the markup almost validates.

Continue reading

Obama in PhotoSynth

Obama in PhotoSynth

45 years ago, a man named Martin Luther King stood in front of the Lincoln memorial and spoke to 250 000 people. His voice carried the words “I have a dream” across the National Mall.

Continue reading

More results

1 2 3