It’s only been a couple years since I started developing ecommerce systems, so I’m not qualified to tell you how to build them. On the upside of things, my mistakes are so fresh in my mind that I can certainly tell you how not to build them.
Here are the top ten things I have learned [...]
The last Mac I had ran System 7, codenamed Big Bang for what literally meant “blows up all the friggin’ time“. In other words, this was what I saw five times a day:
Compatible hardware was hard to come by, and the software selection available for Mac, when it managed to run, was also sparse and [...]
I have what Microsoft thinks is an illegal copy of Windows. Years ago I bought an eMachines with a nonfunctional recovery CD whose serial number has since been effaced. I was not going to pay a hundred bucks for someone else’s screwup, so I did what any reasonable person would do: I pulled a fake [...]
When you’re five years old, Legos are amazing. But by the time you become a professional architect, you feel somewhat limited by the little friends. You hesitate when a client insists you use them to build everything—they’re annoyingly small for a skyscraper and impossibly square for a wigwam, and quite frankly, the omnipresent bumps are [...]
I get the same request over and over again: “I need a website, but I have no money to build or maintain it, and I don’t know HTML.”
I, for one, would like to celebrate my recent Olympic victory by eloping with Jared Leto to a Tuscan villa. Luckily, your dream is slightly more realistic. Here’s [...]
Web 2.0 is a myth invented by entrepreneurs. They want investors to forget about the dot-com bust and open their pockets anew. Let’s look at three buzzwords defining the phenomenon: Web applications, Ajax, and blogs.
A web application is a broad term, but in this context it usually refers to a website that stores information about [...]
Being a techie is great. You belong to a caste of office high-priests: if an untouchable so much as asks you to fix an HTML typo, you pretend you are embarking on an NP-completeness proof. You are respected. You probably make decent money.
I am one of you, a snotty little twerp in glasses, and I [...]