Great, and quite thorough, guide from initial sketching to marketing.
Seriously, I am not old enough to have had the opportunity to try many of these things.
Quite interesting, but not very surprising. When you click on an ad, you can be quite sure that its content will have a commercial aim, while you may not have the same certainty concerning regular search results.
That websites typed into the location bar are more likely to yield purchases should not come as a surprise as well; when you visit a website you know the address of, you know that its content will be commercial.
I just released version 0.1 of a script I originally made for GMTA back in the summer, but which I have not had the time to finish until now.
Yet another great piece — or, actually, question — by Ryan Tomayko. It is a bit strange, though; I have never once wondered of the origin of this.
It might be because I started learning HTML when I knew only a little English, but I always assumed there was some obvious meaning to this. Apparently not.
Just stop it. Really. No, not even Bob Ippolito‘s is all that great.
Quite interesting suggestions. Sounds good all in all.
Som lille forstod jeg aldrig betegnelsen “til tørt hår”. Jeg var af den klare opfattelse, at man gjorde håret vådt inden man puttede disse produkter i det.
Great summary by jQuery author John Resig.
The day has arrived at last; I have merged Simply Jonathan and holst.notes at the simplyjonathan.com domain. The reasons for this are many, but the primary is that it seemed unnecessary to have them separated. So, starting some time last week, I began redesigning Simply Jonathan to accommodate for new, shorter entries.
I had a long time ago planned to redesign Simply Jonathan, and move it to WordPress. The things I said back then still are true; I just realised that it did not really matter. No, blog systems are still not geared towards the longer entries I want to write, but they are not hostile either, and so it seemed strange to keep on to a publishing engine that did not really cut it. The problem was, after I had launched it, I did not really want to do anymore. This left me with a raw Django admin that, albeit pretty, lacked all the automatic processes I need to write efficiently. WordPress had those, and then the horrible code throughout the system, and the stupid template system was of less importance. I still do not like WordPress, but it does as labelled, and that is fine for me at the moment.
In the midst of it, I also decided to merge my del.icio.us postings into the blog, to emulate a Gruber-esque Linked List approach. A, shall we say, interesting experience. More on that in a bit.
So, after I realised that I would move it into one WordPress installation, I did as follows:
I then wanted to import all the 100-something notes into the system. Now, suffice it to say, this was too much manual labour. And since they were both WordPress, I figured I could just export the holst.notes posts table, and import it into the Simply Jonathan one. Not so. Apparently, I had used ISO-8859-1 with holst.notes, but I opted for UTF-8 on Simply Jonathan. Oh well, this is not really anything I can blame the WordPress team for, this was my own fault.
So I decided to investigate the ex-/import possibilities I had discovered in the Simply Jonathan interface. However, holst.notes was running an ancient version of WordPress, one from before the time they realised that this sort of behaviour could happen. Bugger. Oh well, I would just have to use the WordPress-to-Wordpress plugin. So I did. But when time came and I had to upload it, WordPress was giving me an error. Turns up, upon code investigation, that WordPress believes it can safely write onto whatever location PHP stores its temporary upload files. Turns out, it could not on my host. So I had to FTP it to the server, and then hardcode the location to that file. Not pretty, but at least it worked. Then I did a bit of hacking regarding categories, as I decided to slightly change formats, and holst.notes was done.
So now I have a new style blog with three different types of content: links, notes and essays. I hope it will be great.
This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.
Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.