microBlog archives

For what they’re worth

A month-by-month list of all our previous posts. Click on any title to go to that post or to comment on it. Or return to the blog home page.

July 2008

Thank you, Adobe Reader 9! (132)

June 2008

Can modern software be snappy? (23)

May 2008

Design Interval on crowdsourcing
Simple XP tip: show COM ports
Markup, not HTML, for source code

April 2008

Decent: cool, minus the cucumber. (2)
Tetris, the new FizzBuzz (5)
microPledge, customized.

March 2008

GET, POST, safety, idempotency (7)

February 2008

An author who groks hackers
SOAP won't make you clean (18)
Bounties for bug fixers: a bug-tracker plugin (1)

January 2008

Link rot, soft 404s, and DecentURL (2)
Ten quirky things about Python (37)
Google's URL redirection service (2)

December 2007

Party puzzles

November 2007

Emailing tracebacks in web.py (4)
Recursive decent parsing [sic] (3)
Being prime is not a crime (2)

October 2007

DecentURL launched
Ideahub reviews microPledge
As seen on (GeekBrief) TV
Ten things I love && hate about C (22)
Simple XP tip: Turn off your beeps (10)
Simple XP tip: Alarm clock (1)

September 2007

nobraces: Python indentation for C (18)
Learning to write from Mr Green (1)
Weddings and servers
The up-and-coming mod_wsgi
"Brothers offer way to chip in"

August 2007

PayPal fees for dummies (7)
Micro-pledge scheme released to fund software (4)
microPledge public launch (2)

July 2007

microPledge pre-launch!
The Case for case sensitivity (12)
"I trust this computer." Yeah right. (2)
How much should startups charge? (2)

June 2007

Server moving house tomorrow
Patents are evil ... but head-starts are good (2)
A picture is worth 130,000 words (2)
GET to do POST's job (13)
1/4 your spam with onmouseover (6)
JavaScript image pipelining (9)
How did you learn to program? (8)

May 2007

microPledge is coming (3)