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Google Analytics vs Reality
Posted : Thursday December 2nd, 2010

Like many others I am using Google Analytics on many sites to track traffic, and have generally been happy with it. Recently though I have encountered an issue that is making me...read more

Twitter makes me mental or how not to write an API
Posted : Friday October 8th, 2010

Sometimes in the land of development you'll find yourself working on painful tasks, usually involving some half-baked library with shoddy documentation. Lord knows I've had a fe...read more

3 random things
Posted : Tuesday July 6th, 2010

As the title implies there is no "theme" to this post it's just a collection of a few thoughts I've had or encountered recently. First to get a bit of housekeeping out o...read more

Whose blog is it anyway?
Posted : Wednesday May 5th, 2010

I had a discussion today on the topic of people stealing content from blogs, twitter feeds and the like. As it was the second time, and second different person, I had a discussi...read more

SEO and the magic beans
Posted : Monday April 5th, 2010

It seems like not a week goes by without someone, somewhere asking me a question about using "keywords" on a page. It seems there are still people, apparently stuck in 1997, who ju...read more

Right way, wrong way
Posted : Thursday February 11th, 2010

I think when I am finished working on my current project I could write a whole book on tips and tricks for internationalization of websites. But here's the most importan...read more

Sometimes I wonder
Posted : Tuesday September 29th, 2009

I wonder about people sometimes. I really do. I have been recently witnessing a slow train wreck on the Java forums with a new user. Now I should start off by pointing out that ...read more

IE Rant
Posted : Sunday September 6th, 2009

I wish I could think of a better (read: more humour) title for this post but I'm tired and frustrated so I can't. IE 7 is an abomination and I really, really don't get i...read more

Blog reuse tips
Posted : Monday August 17th, 2009

Re-using and making available for reuse content from a variety of different sources on the web is becoming a bigger thing for most companies I know. It just makes a better use o...read more

Will Canada take Facebook to court?
Posted : Sunday August 16th, 2009

It will be interesting to see what happens this week, and especially Monday now that the 30 grace period Canada's privacy commissioner gave to Facebook to clear up it's privacy ...read more

Privacy and Security
Posted : Friday August 7th, 2009

It seems that recently privacy and security issues are all over the place and more than ever. Facebook is being threatened by the Canadian privacy commissioner. Toronto Hydro se...read more

Three IE AJAX gotchas
Posted : Sunday July 26th, 2009

I have been working recently on a web-application (J2EE) that uses a bunch of AJAX for the front end and I have come to realize a few things about browsers and their varying sup...read more

Simple PHP RSS loader
Posted : Sunday May 10th, 2009

A little while ago I wrote a simple RSS parser and loader in PHP for a client. The purpose for me was to read an RSS feed and copy the contents all so the clients blogspot blog ...read more

MySQL and DBCP for Tomcat 5
Posted : Saturday May 9th, 2009

I find that between each version of Tomcat working totally differently and the fact that the documentation is wildly inconsistent and often misleading setting up a connection po...read more

Cross-site-scripting
Posted : Friday April 10th, 2009

While there are many resources and discussions about cross-site scripting attacks (sometimes pretentiously described as XSS) the number of major websites that continue to...read more

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