Category Archives: Web

What’s really wrong with MySpace

February 13, 2010 – 12:44 pm

For the last year or so, the majority of my professional life has revolved around writing applications for social networks, Facebook in particular. In fact, it seems that most application developers forget that other networks actually exist. Allot of this has to do with publishers getting blinded by the ‘FarmVille’ effect of commanding a userbase [...]

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Play OSX Package

October 25, 2009 – 12:26 pm

With work keeping me rather busy lately, I haven’t had the chance to write up a (readable) new post. But over the last little I’ve been looking for a lightweight web development framework for Java that breaks out of the Servlet mold when I discovered Play!. Play is lightweight, set up for rapid development, and [...]

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Keep It Simple

September 11, 2009 – 9:16 pm

If anything the last few years of ‘Web 2.0′ have taught us is that users appreciate simple sites even more than designers. This lesson even held true in the pre-web 2.0 era, tho it required somewhat of a cultural development shift to get there.
Google was the first really ’successful’ company to adopt the simple site [...]

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