Your Impressions of Coder Journal's Design

So today it was brought to my attention that the design of my blog needed work. Since good design is a very subjective term, much like good programming: your program (n): a maze of non-sequiturs littered with clever-clever tricks and irrelevant comments. Compare MY PROGRAM. my program (n): a gem of algorithmic precision, offering the most sublime balance between compact, efficient coding on the one hand, and fully commented legibility for posterity on the other. Compare YOUR PROGRAM. ...

March 5, 2008 · 2 min · 283 words · Nick Berardi

Google Lets You "Chatback" With Your Visitors

As many of you may know I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. If you would like a copy of it, you can download it as part of the Google Pack. Or by it self from http://www.google.com/talk. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left. ...

February 25, 2008 · 2 min · 330 words · Nick Berardi