I enjoy consuming and participating at Hacker News by Y Combinator resp. Paul Graham. One thing that needs improvement is the reading comments there. At times it happens that the first comment develops into a huge thread, and then the second top-level comment (which might also be well worth reading) disappears somewhere down into the [...]

Steve Souders has recently released something like a sequel to his previous book "High Performance Web Sites" (HPWS) which I have already reviewed earlier. With Even Faster Web Sites he and his co-authors (specialists in their fields, such as Doug Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts) on Javascript) elaborate on some of the rules Steve postulated [...]

Just a quick post, because what I read at Joshua Porter's blog somewhat alarms me: Facebook’s Brilliant but Evil design. I feel more and more reassured at why I don't use Facebook and have a bad feeling about them. The gist is this: when you buy something at a participating web site (Ethan Zuckerman shows [...]

I have been attending this year's Future of Web Apps Expo in London's ExCeL centre. There were a ton of interesting speakers and I enjoyed listening a lot. Amongst others there were Steve Souders of Yahoo (High Performance Web Sites), Paul Graham of Y Combinator (The future of web startups), Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com (The [...]

I'd like to introduce you to this great book by Steve Souders. There already have been several reports on the Internet about it, for example on the Yahoo Developers Blog. There is also a video of Steve Souders talking about the book. The book is structured into 14 rules, which, when applied properly, can vastly [...]

Webkit, the rendering Toolkit that powers Apple's Safari web browser, is getting a lot of love lately (iPhone, Windows beta version). But for developers it was always hard to debug and inspect your web applications running in Safari. With Drosera a decent debugger exists since June 2006 (for Webkit only so far, though --- it's [...]

It has come to my attention today that the almost famous Spam Block List provider put the IP addresses of the Austrian Registry nic.at on their block list. The list that Spamhaus provides is actually something good: it allows mail server administrators to automatically block mails arriving from servers that are known to be operated [...]

Wow! Jack Slocum, who works on extending the Yahoo! User Interface Library, has created a very cool version of his phpBB Forum, using AJAX. You can't even believe that this is phpBB underneath. Very slick and fast. Look here phpbb, forum, ajax

I'm proud to announce that Blummy has been voted to first place of the bookmarking category by the Web 2.0 Awards by seomoz.org. Blummy placed in front of Looksmart's Furl.net and it's similar sounding competitor spurl.net. As all the other winners of each category, I have also been interviewed. I can highly recommend reading the [...]

As you all know, Skype is a very popular Voice-over-IP software. Skype also claims that all its communication is encrypted (which raised some discussion whether you should considered a criminal (digged also) if you "hide away" from eavesdropping). Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux from EADS held a talk at Blackhat Europe conference where they show [...]

I complained before about bad guides to improve the performance of your website. digg it, add to delicious I'd like to give you a more realistic guide on how to achieve the goal. I have written my master thesis in computer sciences on this topic and will refer to it throughout the guide. 1. Determine [...]