Jul 18, 2006
Last Wednesday I made my web traffic presentation, which received positive feedback and made some excellent impressions. In retrospect, the agreed upon speaking fee should have been a lot higher. I ended up putting quite a lot of time into the content of the talk, possibly resulting in an hourly rate of less than minimum … Read more
Jul 7, 2006
I’m scheduled to deliver a presentation to a national newspaper next week on how to increase their web traffic. Apparently I am something of an expert on the subject. Who knew? My presentation will focus on traffic from search engines but will also contain some pointers on attracting repeat visitors. I was originally asked to … Read more
May 8, 2006
Today I ran the Sporting Life 10k for the third year in a row. My time was 47:39 which beats my time last year by just under two minutes but didn’t meet my goal of 45 minutes. This year I changed age categories and was surprised by my upsurge … Read more
Feb 6, 2006
Having worked with unit-testing and test-driven development for the past three years, I repeatedly see people making the same common mistakes. These mistakes don’t necessarily undermine the benefits of unit-testing but they do serve to make the process less than ideal:
Writing monolithic tests. More often than not, I see … Read more
Jul 29, 2005
I just spent a few minutes factoring out my TTC subway map Javascript code so that it can be called to insert the TTC subway into any Google Map:
<div id=”map”> <script src=”http://crazedmonkey.com/ttcgooglemap/ttcgooglemaps.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <script type=”text/javascript”> <!– var map = new GMap( document.getElementById( “map” ) ); map.addControl( new … Read more