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April 2003 Archives

CDMax April 30, 2003
Good software does one thing well and stays out of your way. CDMax fits the bill perfectly.

The agenda of Professional blogs April 29, 2003
Why do professionals create weblogs? It’s all about marketing.

MTAmazon, ETech and Jeff Bezos April 27, 2003
Ben and Mena Trott met up with Jeff Bezos at ETech, and I bet they didn’t even mention MTAmazon.

Living in stereo April 27, 2003
Some thoughts on using MP3 libraries on your computer, with and without wires.

DevShed's intro to Functional Specs April 25, 2003
DevShed’s introduction to writing functional specifications doesn’t have any new insight for experienced analysts.

RSS contents April 24, 2003
If you’re going to provide an RSS feed, make it worthwhile.

Webogs in Business Conference April 23, 2003
ClickZ is organizing a conference on blogging in business.

SimpleComments 1.1 April 23, 2003
A new version of SimpleComments has comment numbers, entry containers, and can be used outside an entry.

Usable in subtle ways April 23, 2003
Sometimes the best features in software are the ones you barely notice.

Smart searching April 23, 2003
A helpful search engine finds what you wanted, even if it’s not what you asked for.

Hosted Movable Type April 23, 2003
Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, have announed a hosted blogging service based on Movable Type techonology.

AvantGo gets it right April 23, 2003
AvantGo seeks to refresh stale email marketing permission and sets a gooed example for any company that wants to begin using their email database.

The Web's 10th birthday April 22, 2003
The first graphical browser was released a decade ago.

Cingular Standards April 22, 2003
Cingular Wireless is now using CSS for their site layout.

IE6 CSS bug April 22, 2003
Working around yet another Internet Explorer CSS bug and other frustrations.

A case for product testing April 19, 2003
Make sure your product has the expected results when used in non-standard ways.

Microsoft blogs April 19, 2003
Many Microsoft employees have their own blogs. In addition to some great insight into the company, this provides a lesson to your own company.

Opinion tracking April 19, 2003
If you want to know what people think about your products, don’t ask them to tell you. Listen to what they tell others.

Wireless to go April 19, 2003
A small wireless access point makes it easy to set up wireless networks anywhere I go.

Manipulating the (blog) market April 17, 2003
How much influence can one person have in a fictional stock market?

Is efficiency bad? April 15, 2003
Does a more efficient economic system provide a benefit? Of course it does.

Where does spam come from? April 14, 2003
The Center for Democracy & Technology spent six months conducting a controlled study to determine where spammers get email addresses from and how to reduce the amount os spam you receive.

Who defines this? April 11, 2003
Exactly what is a misleading name?

Blacklisting the headhunters April 10, 2003
A SpamAssassin blacklist to block emails from a network recruiters who spam.

Simplicity April 8, 2003
Worth quoting: "If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it." Jeff Nichols, Pervasive...

Navigation highlights April 7, 2003
When you choose to highlight something, make sure you don’t cause it to blend into it’s surroundings instead.

New subject: Business Blogging April 5, 2003
Want to know more about business uses for weblogs? Keep an eye on this space.

Comment spam April 5, 2003
Perhaps the fact that I have a comments form available on almost every entry on...

Feed overload April 4, 2003
How to ban someone from requesting a Web page and give them alternate content instead.

Filename regex April 4, 2003
Regular expression for removing invalid characters from a Windows filename.

Weblogs in Business April 4, 2003
How can a blog help your business? You can improve marketing. knowledge sharing, collaboration, and team communication, all without knowing a thing about Web publishling.

Usability Myths April 2, 2003
Testing shows that the oft-quoted three click rule to Web site development is false.

The web isn't print April 2, 2003
The web isn’t print. Don’t use popular print conventions like columnular layouts on a Web page.

Performance Tuning and Optimizing ASP.NET Applications April 2, 2003
A good friend has a a new book out.