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This is just general information for house keeping issues regarding this site. If you are one of the people who follow this site via the RSS feed, there may or may not be issues in the next few weeks. For my feed I am using the very competent and clever services provided by Feedburner. Now, I am not the only one finding them good, and in fact Google found Feedburner so good they decided to buy the company.

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Back To The Future Of The Web

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Back to the Future?

In April 2008 I wrote a blog post called FW: A question on what the ‘future web will resemble’ where I was trying to predict (well, give my view…) how I saw the web would pan out in the near future. My conclusion, which was based entirely on my own personal experiences and views, was that I would be looking for something somewhere that enabled me to manage “my web”, either on the web or as a desktop application, and which would bring my web to me, as opposed to forcing me to go to all these other sites and services to do various tasks.

I was reminded of that post today when I was reading this article on ReadWriteWeb regarding a “central dashboard”, which in turn linked off to both an originating post by Marc Canter, as this very much ties into the conclusion of my old blog post.

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Developers == Janitors?

Sometimes developers get the craziest questions and requests, most often from people who are not fully understanding what a developer actually does. The most common of those is probably that they often are confused with IT/IS staff but I have over the years even been asked to sort out printers, air conditioners, TV’s, projectors etc, just as if knowledge of those machines inner workings have come to me during my course of doing HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/C# as they apparently appear to be closely related, at least to those in my surroundings that are not developers.

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Where the Devil is…

B O O K III

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This is a re-post of a blog post I wrote for another blog which is now defunct. The post itself is sort of timeless though so figured I could put it on this blog as well, if nothing else to archive it.

Just tying together an e-mail I received with an article I read and my general thinking of late (which was actually based on my flat, and what isn’t working in it, though it is shiny enough), I think we (as a generic mass of web site creators) too often overlook “the little things”, all of which combined create the overall feel, or lack of, for a product.

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Site, server, continent re-jig

Sorry if things are moving around, links are broken or functionality missing. I have just moved the site, and I mean that in a quite physical kind of way: it was, until last night, hosted in Freemont, California, US. It is now hosted in London, UK.

It has been on my mind for quite some time, seeing as I have access to top class hosting on both continents, and I figured there wouldn’t be too many site visitors on new years day in any case. The main reason for the move was simple: the majority of my site visitors (70%) are based in UK and/or Europe, and having the site physically closer to the visitors means less “hops” and better response times.

The actual move was surprisingly straight forward, even though I (in a slightly wine induced state at 04.00 in the morning) forgot to take any type of back-up of anything. However, there probably is, and will be, some anomalies happening on the site until I’ve encountered them myself and corrected them.

Now you know. Bear with me, it will all be back to normal pretty soon. :)

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