Monthly Archives: May 2010

Improve website YSlow performance grade in a blink of an eye

May 31st, 2010

Website performance is much talked topic these days but still surprisingly large number of webmasters neglect the impact of site loading time for their SEO, visitor experience and ultimately sales. Here is a quick tip to improve your website performance score (as measured by YSlow). It takes literally less then 5 minutes to implement.

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A problem of web spam from search engine perspective

May 28th, 2010

Yesterday I was searching for ergonomic chairs as anyone sitting 8+ hours a day is ought to, and to my amazement huge percentage of search results were made-for-Adsense sites with rubbish content written by an outsourced penguin. Made-for-Amazon sites were in the strong second place.

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The Future of Free

May 27th, 2010

I do not believe things should be free. It creates anarchy. I believe it is in the human nature not to appreciate what is free. If somebody gives us something for free, most of us take it for granted as if it never happened. And that creates the problem with free. Because free also needs to make living somehow. But it got it's business model all wrong because we are not appreciative enough. How do I know? If we were paying for the air we breathe I bet we would care more for our environment.

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Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs

May 25th, 2010

My next project soon to be released will be an application to manage multiple WordPress blogs from a centralized dashboard. I have chosen managewp.com as the project home, and I am currently making finishing touches to the application. Everything will be purely WordPress powered and all you will have to do is install a plugin on sites that you want to remotely manage. Feel free to post any ideas or feature requests in a comment or contact me directly.

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Forgotten Art of Programming

May 18th, 2010

I remember when I was a kid, the thrill of seeing a new game or demo effect on my computer. It was a true display of programming ingeniousness, when coders struggled to bend the rules of physics and electronics and squeeze every possible bit of power from these machines. Then came the PC and with it lazy programming. Now we are witnesses to the absurd such as 1 GHz processors installed in mobile phones, but switching from one menu to another is mysteriously lasting 5 seconds.