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W3C: Compliance for the Sake of Compliance 2008-01-24 05:01:32 It's a well-known fact that many popular websites fail W3C validation. There is a brisk discussion on Digg about this subject.Being valid eats resources and doesn't provide any benefits to visitors. Working in the web development industry I observed that none of the clients are going to pay additionally just to make their websites W3C valid. However, of course, all clients would accept such a gift from a web development contractor.I think it's better to spend those resources for being useful, interesting and popular. If leading web resources do so then perhaps this approach is reasonable. If they can't afford spending resources for being W3C-valid then smaller websites can't do this all the more.W3C says that "[...] household-name companies expect people to visit because of the name and in Read more:Compliance
How to Get 1000+ LinkedIn Connections in Two Weeks 2008-01-22 08:30:34 A year ago I had about 20 LinkedIn
connections and had no idea how to make even 20 more. In December 2007 I made 300 connections in 2 hours. Now my network is 1,400+.The fast and easy way to make 1000+ LinkedIn connections is to declare yourself LION (LinkedIn Open Networker), register with The LIONs' Lair, download a list of LIONs, import it into LinkedIn and mass-send invitations. And wait. Your 1,000 connections will come in two or three weeks.To grow our networks more we need to find other ways because the number of LIONs is limited and will always be. Zale Tabakman has posted some advices on how to generate 100 LinkedIn invitations a week. Ok, I haven't generate so many but Zale's post is obviously helpful.But having a large network and getting use of it are two different things. I'd Read more:Two Weeks
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Calculate Your Blogging Efficiency! 2008-01-21 03:52:54 As you can see I’ve started blogging only several days ago but those several days were enough for me to realize that blogging isn’t easy thing and it takes time and efforts to attract readers. Perhaps everybody knows this but why not try to calculate how much time we spend for generating each visit? To measure is to control. To control is to succeed.The formula is very simple:Efficiency
= Number of your hours you’ve invested to your blog / Number of Visits to Your BlogIf you’re going to vote on “What’s Your Blogging
Efficiency?” poll please follow the simple rules below to make results more unified and ensure we all have the same foundation to evaluatethem.Choose any time period you like. This poll is only for fun and to turn your attention to the fact that we can measure and
How to Browse the Web Quicker or Do You Use Opera? 2008-01-18 01:44:51 I use Opera for over five years and now I have a blog where I can spread the word about this wonderful web browser. So let me do!Just to Say Ahh!Today Opera is much more popular than it was when I've started using it, but even that time I was very serious about buying it. Not just to remove the banner from the top of the browser window but to thank Opera team for what they're doing. But... Ooops... They've made it free! They are always two steps ahead. Ahead in usability. Ahead in technology. Even ahead of your wishes! And that's what I love them for.To Be a Bit More SpecificOpera browser has numerous features that'll make your not only browsing quicker but also using the web without a need of having several tools. In Opera you can download files (and yep BitTorrent is supported), store no Read more:Browse
Another Way to Improve Language Skills 2008-01-16 03:52:43 All of us know that to improve our language skills we need to have practice read, write and speak. We also know of such ways as having a small personal dictionary, learning N words per day, etc.I’d like to introduce another way I’ve invented. Perhaps it’s not an easier way. This is just one more trick we can use and combine with other ones. And I suspect I’m not the first who invented it.So the Method IsWhen you see something or think about something, check yourself – do you know what is that word in English (Spanish, Russian, etc.). If you don’t, write that word down in the language you know immediately (you can just remember – that’s enough if you are not trying to learn too many words daily). And check it out in the dictionary once you have access to it.The difference Read more:Improve
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How to Test a Web Service 2008-01-12 00:50:42 As a web service is something that has no user interface, we can’t interact with it without a special tool. That tool should allow composing XML requests via its own user interface. Commonly such user interfaces are text editors where you write your XML requests and controls for posting requests to the server.Why not just unit tests?Unit test is essential for every piece of program code. In many companies there is even a convention that code that did not pass unit test is not given for testing by quality control people. Unit test is simply part of development, not testing.The minuses of considering passing unit tests enough acceptance criterion for a web service are:Unit tests are developed by a developer. Usually by the same person who has developed the application being tested. If a d Read more:Service
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