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Top TV Series on IMDB as of 2011

Here is a list of the top 100 TV series on IMDB as of today. I have ordered them based on year produced, and then sorted them within each year based on 60% IMDB score and 40% the number of people who voted for each title. I am personally more interested in the newer stuff [...]

24 December 2011 at 15:33 - Comments

Unique, Secure, Memorable Passwords

An easy way to generate a unique, memorable but secure password for each website or service you visit is to apply the following recipe:

5 December 2011 at 15:06 - Comments

Blogging Process

I have been meaning to blog more for ages. I have had a blog on the internet since early 1990 in one form or other, but I just tend to do sporadic blogging. Every so often I get fired up with communicating and write some blog posts, and then my enthusiam wanes for a while, [...]

5 November 2011 at 17:40 - Comments
Big well done on the regularity Brett - how long does it take you to write a post - on ...
5 November 11 at 20:24
Usually about 20-30 minutes. I'm slowly improving and automating the workflow to make things easier. Currently looking at using Python's ...
5 November 11 at 20:28

How Disqus does scaling

Here is a great presentation given by Jason Yan and David Cramer of Disqus fame about how their site was architected in order to scale to handle 75 million comments. DjangoCon 2010 Scaling Disqus View more presentations from zeeg.

8 September 2010 at 20:52 - Comments

Blogging as Gardening

You know; blogging is a lot like gardening. Some peoples’ blogs have been completely neglected – untended and overgrown with weeds. Mine has become a lot like that. An out-of-date WordPress environment, stale posts overcome with comment spam weeds.

18 July 2010 at 18:11 - Comments

Blogging and SEO talk by Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts gave an extremely interesting and dynamic talk at WordCamp about blogging and Search Engine Optimization. Not only was it extremely entertaining, but it contained lots of interesting tidbits about how to increase the PageRank of your site.

21 August 2009 at 12:03 - Comments

Making your application viral

Daniel Tenner has written an interesting post on how to make you application viral. The core model for viral growth is the following: viral coefficient = (average number of users invited by each active user) x (proportion of invited users that actually join or become active) x (proportion of such users that invite others). Daniel [...]

18 May 2009 at 20:43 - Comments