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Using Pay Per Click ads is becoming less and less financially viable. This is mainly because they are an auction so if you win you’ll always be paying more that others thought the traffic was worth. Also they are very … Continue reading →

As part of creating a Facebook app you have to come up with a Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy. Facebook insist – although a fair few apps don’t seem to have them. The privacy policy says what data … Continue reading →

I’ve just launched http://www.send-a-test.com/. This is a site that should make sending out pre-interview tests much easier. It takes care of getting the test to the candidate, timing them whilst they do it and then storing their answers when they … Continue reading →

Right – I’m sitting on the bus in traffic and to my right is a father and his three young children. As a bus in traffic is deadly dull they are playing a game where one person says a list … Continue reading →

At my current job I am frustrated at how the code is being built. In order to explain it I came up with this analogy about packing a garage: Say you have a big pile of stuff that you need … Continue reading →

There is an impedance mismatch in most software based companies. The business side (the ‘suits’) want to build up financial capital, getting sales and putting more money in the bank. The technical side (the ‘coders’) want to build up technical … Continue reading →

One of the difficulties that having sub-domains is that you need to have lots of DNS entries for them. This is particularly annoying if you want to run the site on your development machine – ie 127.0.0.1. That is why … Continue reading →

Joel Spolsky had some fun with stuff you can do in JavaScript – I’ve done something similar with Perl. Can your language do this? This is one of the nicer introductions to anonymous subroutines that I’ve seen, as well as … Continue reading →

In 1986 the excellent book ‘Programming Pearls’ was first published. Amongst other things it looks at binary searching, shows how tricky it can be to get right and presents some code that is correct. Unfortunately the code has a bug … Continue reading →