Entries for April 2009

Stack Overflow through the rear mirror

Almost a year ago I noticed that two of my favourite coding bloggers, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, were founding a company together amusingly called Stack Overflow. Their aim was to create a site with useful information for fellow coders, generated by user content. While I've been reading their blogs...

April 21, 2009 | Comments (2) | Filed under Coding

The final Tinitus

This weekend I visited the last Tinitus ever. The lineup was strong and the festival had been extended to two days. We defied the sunny spring weather of Stockholm and descended into the dark fog of Münchenbryggeriet for the 10th year edition of Tinitus. It was the third time I...

April 12, 2009 | Comments (0) | Filed under Music

In the eyes of Google all sites are created equal

Some time ago a bunch of newspapers demanded to get a higher search rank from Google. The reason was that they didn't master even the simpliest of search engine optimization (SEO) skills and thus wanted to be given a freeride in pagerank. Nice try, insert coin. Now the New York...

April 03, 2009 | Comments (0) | Filed under Web standards

The Ipred onslaught

Today the new Ipred law will go into action. I really wish it was just a tasteless April's fool joke, but unfortunately it is the bitter truth. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law. The short short...

April 01, 2009 | Comments (2) | Filed under Web industry and technologies