Web Development Trends for 2006.
Curious
about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the
coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors
here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of
up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it vocational
education for people building Web [...]

Code Debt.
I’ve been pondering a new term I heard the other day. The term is “code debt.” I heard it while listening to Jason Fried in this podcast and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Code
debt to me is very real. It’s the debt you have to keep paying back
when you have software that needs to [...]

Power bubbles for the iFolder Linux Client.

I've been working to enhance
the capability of the notification bubbles in the Linux Client so users
will be able to take action immediately when they get a notification
(i.e., click on a link presented to them in the bubble). Additionally,
I'm strongly contemplating changing the initial modal dialog that
appears when you [...]

How to become a hacker. #
Monday in a “chatroom interview” in Beijing someone asked me how to
become a hacker. (Those of you visiting this web page from the People
Magazine article, you should know the term “hacker” here refers to a
computer programmer, not an internet vandal).
My interlocateur
wanted to contribute to an open [...]

Think Young.
Is there something you loved to do when you were younger but that you
stopped doing? Did you stop doing it because you truly outgrew it… or
because you got older? If you want to keep your brain sharp… [Creating Passionate Users]

Apologies to pensioner detained as terrorist.
LABOUR ministers yesterday offered half-hearted apologies to Walter
Wolfgang, the 82-year-old activist ejected from the party's conference
for daring to heckle Jack Straw over the war in Iraq. [The Scotsman]

Learn how search engines rank pages.
Over at SEOmoz there is a great page that explains how search engines go about ranking your pages.
This article contains a large list of the factors that can
influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!,
MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase.
This is great stuff [...]

Desirable Traits in a CIO.
Every
now and then, I think it would be great to be a CIO, in part because
the title seems so cool. As a CIO, you get invited to great conferences
for “C level” executives. And you get a great magazine – CIO magazine,
one of my favorite magazines
Speaking of CIO magazine and CIOs, CIO [...]

Iraq turns to Iran for Infrastructure

The recent bevy of deals between Iraq and Iran have one common theme:
they provide Iraq with the critical infrastructure they need to revive
their economy. Deals for oil processing, petrol (which Iraq needs to
import), electricity (which is below pre-war levels and half pre gulf
war 1 levels), a deep water port, food, [...]

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