Web Content and SEO: Where to Begin – and What to Do Next

For an organization looking to boost its search engine rankings, small content upgrades often generate significant improvements – and deeper analysis can make an even bigger impact.

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Here’s The Wrong Way To Test Exceptions…

Recently I found myself reading a LiveJournal blog interestingly named Workings of a Twisted Mind.  Well, twisted or not, in the past couple of months the author has made several excellent posts regarding best practices in unit testing.  My favorite is a recent entry that begins, ”Here’s the wrong way to test exceptions in C++ and Java...”

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Survival of The Fittest: The Evolution of Brands

Joe Crump, VP Strategy & Planning at Avenue A | Razorfish delivered an interesting presentation Monday at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in France. The topic was attributes good brands need to survive in the digital era. Below I’ve embedded the same presentation that he also gave to a group about a month ago:

Also, here is a link to the slide deck.

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More Delays Reported for Android…Depending How One Counts

There seems to be no hiding this story today.  The short of it…Google is experiencing some delays with its roll out of Android and the first devices that will support it. Google had stated earlier this year that the first Android phone would ship in the second half of 2008. Today’s report from the Wall Street Journal reported a slow down which quickly down spiraled to reports of delay and “A Blow to Google’s Mobile Ambitions”.  The apparent frenzy around the story appears to be short lived as more blogs are now clarifying the state of Android and restating that late Q4 still falls within the second half of 2008 where Google predicted devices would first emerge. As far as Google is concerned ”We remain on schedule to deliver the first Android-based handset in the second half of 2008 and we’re very excited to see the momentum continuing to build behind the Android platform among carriers, handset manufacturers, developers and consumers.”

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Top Ten Errors In Programming Lists…

All programming languages have them.  It doesn’t matter if it is Java, C, C#, etc.  For every language there is somebody, somewhere, who has compiled a list of the top ten programming mistakes for that language (except PHP, where apparently 10 wasn’t enough).

As engineers, we read these lists, laugh about the times we made those mistakes ourselves, and sometimes cross post the lists on other popular development sites.  And that’s it.  After that we file them away and don’t think about them until the next list pops up in the tubes.  But it doesn’t have to end there.

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