WordPress Themes: What to look for
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 20th Aug, 2008
photo credit: Nikita Kashner
Great post down at NetStrife talking about Things to Look for in WordPress Themes. There’s lots of good advice in there which you can really apply to any technology that has stand-alone themes, not just WordPress. So, what does the article recommend? Here’s a quick list:
Fast Loading Time: You don’t [...]
Guest Post: Take the Payment
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Jul, 2008
A customer is standing by the vacuum cleaner display. The Sales assistant approaches the customer and ask “are you looking for a upright or cylinder?”
Which letter best describes the selling skills?
Product knowledge know what you are selling.
Acknowledge customer- make eye contact
You now establish the customers need & wants
Match the products to the needs & wants
Ensure [...]
10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 12th Apr, 2008
Great post down at ProBlogger with some great tips on how you can improve traffic to your blog. Here they are in a nutshell:
Create link clusters within your blog
Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts
Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook
Save your best posts for the best times of the week
Edit [...]
Facts on Software Engineering
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
I came across a post on CodingHorror where Jeff pulls out a summary from Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. There’s some great stuff in there that everyone working in software should know. And good advice is like? cheap glasses, you can never have enough! So I’m echoing it here:
People
The most [...]
5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job)
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 23rd Mar, 2008
Interesting post on CNN Money, which albeit being a couple of years old is always pretty interesting. It talks about ways you could legitimately start a new company while leveraging your day job. Here’s what it suggests in a nutshell:
Use your salary as funding
Turn common complaints into a business plan
Make your boss a beta tester
Take [...]
10 ways to improve your code
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Mar, 2008
Interesting post on The Reg about Neil Ford’s talk about how to improve you code. The talk was aimed at Java developers but there’s good advice for everyone in there. Here’s what he said in a nutshell:
Write tests before writing the code
Use static analysis tools
Practice “good citizenship” by paying attention to how well your objects [...]
The 12 most common application level hack attacks
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 26th Nov, 2007
I got an interesting paper in my email today entitled The 12 Most Common Application Level Hack Attacks? written by Watchfire Corporation. Most development probably know about most of these, but it was nice to see them collected in one place. In a nut shell, these are:
Cookie Poisoning
Hidden Field Manipulation
Parameter Tampering
Buffer Overflow
Cross-Site Scripting
Backdoor and Debug [...]
