I came across Search Engine Optimization for Dummies on Amazon today: After a quick tweet fuelled by my thoughts on the topic, I thought that I should perhaps elaborate on exactly what I meant.
I’m all for optimizing your website so that it is searchable; for example, from a development point of view you can do things like:

“prettify” URLs
create semantic page …

The other day I was using Cyberduck more heavily than I would usually, when I was doing a whole load of uploading. When I came to close the application, I was presented with this dialog:

It’s a fair enough dialog, I have been using free software which someone put their own time into and I’m appreciative, and might think of donating …

I have talked about piracy before, but I was inspired by Matt Gemmell’s take on it in Episode #9 of the MDN Show:
Piracy is pretty much an unsolvable problem. That’s a controversial thing to say, but I don’t mean it’s absolutely technically unsolvable, but it’s one of these situations where you have diminishing returns. The better your protection, the better …

After downloading the new Chrome beta for Mac OS X the first thing that struck me was how well it blended into the native Mac UI. The window takes on the standard OS X window appearance whilst working into it with the tabs which are built into the title bar. This wasn’t simply a port of the Windows version, it’s …

350 million users. That’s a lot of people, but is the quoted total number of Facebook users that was announced last Wednesday.
Although objected to by many, Facebook has undergone a set of significant changes across the site over the past year, perhaps the most prominent being the real-time news feed built from activity by users on your friends list, which …