grant watson - software engineer

Six Principles for Making New Things
I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
(tags: design creativity business ideas programming software development simplicity)

Rees Re: OO
Lisp being oriented [...]

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What Search Engine Spiders See
A useful tool for finding out what search engine spider robots see when they visit your page. List headings, links, word counts, and view the text robots gulp.
(tags: search seo google tools)

Kris Kuksi
These sculptural objects are wonderfully intricate constructions of pop culture effluvia like plastic model kits, injection molded toys, dolls, [...]

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Do You Have Remarkable Featured Content? : SEO Book.com
Your brand lovers are willing to navigate to wherever your frequently updated content is. Your homepage should be optimized to capture the hearts and minds of people new to your field.
(tags: blogging web webdesign content marketing)

10 Insights From 11 Months Of Working At Google | Occam’s Razor [...]

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Neurological Exploitation & Selfish Ignorance : SEO Book.com
Consider the following about the future of online information quality
(tags: seo information marketing advertising future)

Guide to link cloaking, masking and url redirection
Jeremy defines the differences between link cloaking, masking and url redirection and provides some handy php and javascript code to illustrate how these can be implemented.
(tags: seo [...]

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Creative Valentine’s Day Gifts | Stephen Shapiro on Innovation, Creativity, Goals & Performance
Treat this as an exercise in problem solving. To start, your vision is to conceive a solution that will recognize and reward your partner in a way that leads to the maximum benefit to all involved.
(tags: thinking creativity)

Everything I Know About Blogging » [...]

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Seth’s Blog: Food = Fun
Marketing, when it works, transcends any discussion of the benefits of the product or the service.
Marketing, instead, is about the equal sign. Many of us want fun and respect and love and success and kindness and hope. What brilliant marketers do is add
(tags: marketing psychology)

Sniff browser history for improved user experience
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Helvetica: The Documentary Film » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
The film toggles between designers who love the simplicity and clarity of Helvetica and designers who hate the homogeneity and soullessness of the font. Everyone has a compelling argument why Helvetica should be ubiquitous or should be banned.
(tags: fonts art video documentary)

Web Apps To Be [...]

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How Do I Capture The Click, Lead or Sale?
The whole goal for me is to exercise efforts towards making sure that the people who come IN leaving OUT using an action that PAYS.
(tags: blogging internet marketing money)

Automatic keyword inserting affiliate plugin for Wordpress
The plugin works by taking the keyword that a visitor used to find [...]

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Years of irrelevance - (37signals)
Peopleware quotes a study that six months seemed to be the cut-off point for programmers. Once they had six months under their belt, the platform knowledge was no longer the bottleneck in their abilities.
(tags: programming recruiting hiring)

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Coding Horror: Get Your Database Under Version Control
The database is a critical part of your application. If you deploy version 2.0 of your application against version 1.0 of your database, what do you get? A broken application, that’s what. That’s why your database should always be under source control, ri
(tags: software engineering database development)

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