Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff lays out 5 ways to make the 404 error page better...

Charlie says that "the whole idea that you have a main site is dead". I couldn't agree more - I strongly believe that platforms are the future of the Internet. One clarification I'd like to make in this whole discussion is Facebook is both a destination and a platform. It's important to understand that...

John Morales has a great post on understanding complexity and how to think about difficult concepts. I think John hits on a key concept in the idea of "good code" while I realize it wasn't the main focus of his post: good code is simple for everyone (the team in question) to understand. I think this...

One of my big pet peeves with syndication is when platforms publish multiple formats. Or, more precisely, when the user is presented with 5 similar-looking icons with all of those options. Why make the user think ? The user wants your content, but you've put an additional barrier in that ultimately has...

This is my first post to this blog in almost a year !  I have actually been blogging the last few months but not on this blog.  We decided to create a blog for our whole development team so individuals could post interesting items without having to commit to being a total blogger. We have also...

Kevin has posted about refactoring some simple logic from an ASP.NET page and breaking it out into a separate class (Single Responsibility Principle) to make the code more maintainable. Kevin highlights the classic problem with unmaintainable code and works his way into how to not only improve this code...

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