Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates

The two other stabs at creating Sitemap templates for Movable Type don't take into account that you might want to assign different priorities and scan frequencies to your entries (as described here), as well as correcting 'Last Modified date' to include comment submissions. MORE...

Bring your outboard brain with you

Sometimes things can be deceptively simple yet amazingly powerful. The captivating Tetris-game comes to mind, and today I had another life-changing revelation: the GTD TiddlyWiki is a Wiki, a GettingThingsDone (GTD) tool, and an open source, multiplatform, HTML-based 'The Brain' you can carry with you on a USB stick. MORE...

How to redirect after changing your domain name

For people arriving searching for how to redirect after changing their domain name, my advice is largely unchanged since last time I discussed this (in August 2002): Use a proper HTTP redirect where possible for website visitors (humans AND robots). Forward your employee's mail for a long time (imagine a potential customer digging out an old business card with emails in the old domain on it - you want these emails to arrive!) [...] MORE...

Architecting an ID card

As part of the discussion ensuing the announcement of new Estonian ID cards on Slashdot, member 0x0d0a posted an insightful yet basic list of requirements for ''the ideal ID card'': MORE...

Thinking ahead

Dan Bricklin: ''We need to start thinking about software in a way more like how we think about building bridges, dams, and sewers. What we build must last for generations without total rebuilding. This requires new thinking and new ways of organizing development. This is especially important for governments of all sizes as well as for established, ongoing businesses and institutions.'' MORE...

Free beer user testing

''Café testing'' as a budget version of traditional user experience testing MORE...

Personal KM

''You can't manage knowledge. If you are an organisation. You can manage knowledge. If you are an individual.'' MORE...

Living the digital media lifestyle

''[...]Digital, but not purely digital; analog, but not only analog. We live in the space between these two [...]'' MORE...

On design

''Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one.'' - Frank Lloyd Wright MORE...

Deutche Boerse's "Competitive Intelligence" system

The previously reported Deutche Börse-originating spider has visited other bloggers as well, and could potentially be a part of their competitive intelligence system ''EXOTIC''. One of Martin Roell's commenters has more info. MORE...

ISO 8601: The standard date format

I would like to chip in an argument in favour of ISO 8601 - the International Standard Date and Time Notation. It survives cross-cultural translation some websites seem to think that everyone in the world naturally enter MM/DD/YY, others default DD/MM/YYYY etc... MORE...

Optimizing Movable Type (part 3) - get more readers

When you've read the articles on archiving strategies and increasing the ''Googlejuice'' of your site, now is the time to attract new visitors to your site. MORE...