Archive for February, 2008

Why Trusting Data to Webservices can be Dangerous

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

This past evening, I’m sure some of you may be aware, that Twitter went on the fritz. Randomly logging people into different accounts, including permissions. As you may have guessed, chaos ensued. But the real problem here isn’t necessarily identity theft or some other more serious problem, though you could say it was identity theft, just not based on bank accounts or other monetary sources, but reputation.
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My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Last evening I was browsing a few portfolios after having a discussion with a friend who was redoing his own. I have to say it was a frustrating experience just looking through a few. In fact it was so frustrating, this post came as a result. After browsing 200 portfolios and keeping track of certain criteria I know I never want a job in human resources.

At any rate, I hope this will be useful to those of you looking to create or reevaluate your portfolio. Yes I’m an opinionated bloke, but I think you’ll see my reasoning as relatively common sense items that people just overlook.
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Typesites Goes Weekly

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The original plan was to be biweekly because of the chaos and anarchy of having a guest author each week. But, the hell with that; I’ll be posting a review weekly. Timelines be damned.

On another note the site has done very well during it’s first week, and there’s already a new review up. Thank you to anyone who has commented, emailed, linked or whatever. It’s been fun.
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Introducing Typesites

Monday, February 4th, 2008

So what is it? Well, since I’m tired and cranky from fixing browser bugs all night, I’ll let a snippet of the about page do the talking:
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