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Category Archives: Programming

A much simpler design

My great friend and colleague Marc Mendell built me a new design last June, and I loved it. But soon after, my site started to get slow. I was having problems with my hosting service too.
Plus, older stories were getting broken because the content was too wide.

I needed a more extensible design. I asked Marc [...]

Learn SEO from a Google webmeister

Google is the first place many people go first when opening a web browser. It’s fast, reliable, and accurate. Search engine optimization could be the special sauce that makes or breaks your website. So let’s learn a little SEO from Google. Maile Ohye will be our driver.
Crawling
When you create a website, make it accessible without [...]

Google I/O 2008 key[notes]

Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google.
What does Google have to do with developers?

At a very high level, Google cares about moving the web forward. Advancing it, is something we think is critical to the ecosystem.
Do you have a cloud? I suspect not.
At Google, we spend millions of millions of dollars on clouds. We can [...]

PHP philosophy from Terry Chay

I get really excited when I hear Terry Chay is gonna give a PHP talk.

Last night, he spent nearly 90 minutes in CNET’s Magma conference room ranting about the value of using PHP more than toothpaste. This is the same room Terry organized a Lunch 2.0 at about six months ago.

If you are interested in [...]

geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability and Performance

Terry Chay is very good at gathering important people together, so when I heard about the lineup for a PHP-flavored geekSessions, I knew tychay had something to do with it.

As always, The Forbin Group and SF Beta hosted the event at the beautiful City Club atop 255 Sansome. Cindy was a great hostess.

geekSessions 1.3’s panel [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]