Ben Griswold on October 31st, 2006

The quick answer is HUMILITY.  Here’s why.First things first.  I’m guessing that most everyone already knows, but  what is Technorati?  At the risk of messing up an answer which isn’t really need in the first place, I pulled information from the About Us page on the site itself.  Technorati is… Currently tracking 58.5 million blogs.Technorati is [...]

Continue reading about What Do You Get With A Technorati Account?

Ben Griswold on October 30th, 2006

What’s up with this image? It’s the top left corner of the photomosaic found below. The complete mosaic is composed of hundreds or thousands of individual images arranged as tiles so that they appear as one picture when observed from a distance. The individual images are totally unrelated to each other, but when stitched together, [...]

Continue reading about Build Your Own Photomosaic

Ben Griswold on October 29th, 2006

What is “Rubber Ducking?” The phrase was made famous by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas in the book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master.  A book, by the way,  which is required reading for all coders.  In fact, it is time I reread it.  You may already be familiar with this term, but in [...]

Continue reading about Solve Problems With Rubber Ducking

Ben Griswold on October 29th, 2006

Lorem Ipsum is the defacto standard text we use on our web page mockups. Most often it is used as a placeholder until finalized content is available. However, there are believed to be other benefits. It has been thought that “real” text tends to draw focus away from the overall presentation. With this in mind, [...]

Continue reading about Lorem Ipsum is Latin for Dummy Text

Ben Griswold on October 28th, 2006

I recently signed up with Digg. The registration process was short and sweet. I simply provided a username, email address, password, my birthdate and I also verified that I was a “human” (their words, not mine) by entering the text I saw in the image verification box. All fields were required. Upon submitting my request, [...]

Continue reading about Why Does Digg Require My Birthdate?

Ben Griswold on October 27th, 2006

We are currently going through the exercise of converting our web applications (primarily .NET web applications) from SQL Server Authentication over to Integrated Authentication. Integrated authentication allows for SQL Server to leverage Windows NT authentication to validate SQL Server logon accounts. This allows the user to bypass the standard SQL Server logon process. With this approach, [...]

Continue reading about Integrated Authentication Gotchas

Ben Griswold on October 26th, 2006

In a previous post, I discussed that 9Rules was reviewing the first round of potential new member websites starting yesterday, October 25. I took a look at what 9Rules was looking for in a site and I shared that they claim to put content ahead of design. In the article, I said, “I appreciated what [...]

Continue reading about Selling Beer in a Champaign Bottle

Ben Griswold on October 26th, 2006

I’ve freely shared that my blog is “powered by” WordPress and I have enthusiastically endorsed the product time and time again. Heck, I may have posted enough praise to last WordPress a lifetime, but since Andreas Kraus asked for it, I am going to share a little more. Here’s the top 3 things I love [...]

Continue reading about The Making of JohnnyCoder.com