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In order to share your thoughts, ideas and knowledge, you often have to write them down. This will often take the form of a short document, a memo if you will. But a memo is really static and boring.…

WAP will fail, because every single assumption it is built on is wrong. The instant someone delivers true, always-on internet to a handheld device, nobody will ever care about WAP again. And it will i…

Here’s a few things that you want to avoid when you’re building your website. Don’t worry, you’ll save time by avoiding them. And the world will benefit.

Don’t Make Links go Bold on Mouseover

Some s…

The Big Picure

LDAP is basically a specialized database. Some of the characteristics are:

• It consists of entries organized in a hierarchy.
• It favors reading over writing.
• Every entry has a primary ke…

This page contains several ideas on how to help rank and categorize content on a web site, to help users find the information they are looking for. The basic premise is that by watching what users act…

These are some thoughts that <a href=”http://www.branimir.com”>Branimir Dolicki and <a href=”/lars”>I, generated while developing Knowledge Management for Siemens. I hope to one day put reality behind…

There are two seperate and equally important parts to being a great programmer. You need absolute technical mastering of the technologies you use. But that’s the easy and boring part. The hard part is…

Random pieces I enjoyed reading.

Software design

These are on the top of my list. Cooper’s book is great for learning about the process of developing software in general. Philip’s book is about web si…

It’ll take you approx. 15 minutes. Sorry, this paper is just hacked together very quickly.

The server root

• If you’re using CVS with your own private repository:

  
  $ cd /web
  $ mkdir yourprivateserver
  $ …

The big picure