Posts Tagged ‘advice’

WordPress Themes: What to look for

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:...

Guest Post: Take the Payment

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...

10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic

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...

Facts on Software Engineering

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...

5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job)

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...

10 ways to improve your code

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”...

The 12 most common application level hack attacks

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...

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