Never Store Your Passwords in Clear Text
In 2008, I blogged about how to work with passwords with any web app you may build. It’s been one of the more popular posts on this site, and the lessons learned in that have never been more relevant during the course of the last few days. Let’s flash back and get a bit of a [...]

Will Google Rank Your Site Higher if its Faster?
GigaOm reported this weekend that Google potentially may look as how fast your site loads and integrate that into its PageRank system. Matt Cutts, a software engineer and an eloquent corporate spokesman for Google, spoke at PubCon earlier this month and later gave a video interview to Web Pro News, in which he said that [...]

Cloudberry Explorer for Amazon S3 Review+ Giveaway
One of the things I like best about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service is that we users aren’t locked into just one way of managing our content. We can use third-party apps, browser plugins or even write your own. I haven’t had time to do that, and probably never well, so I rely on third-party applications [...]

Lefsetz on young people & social networks
I’ve blogged here about Bob Lefsetz and his blog before. It’s completely “Inside Baseball” but for the music business. I very much enjoy his take on music and being in the music business in the world we live in today. His post this week about young people really jumped out at me, because if you [...]

Planning Presentations for 2010
The Cambridge University web team and Ashton Sixth Form College team (and me)Colchester, England, July 2009 As 2009 winds to an end, I was going through my list of speaking engagements and man, 2009 was an awesome year. I did 9 conferences and webinars this year with one more coming up in December. I got to [...]