Last year I attempted to describe what I would be doing with this blog. I am not going to do that this year as I prefer a more fluid approach. Planning what I want to write for this blog is hard because it is a commentary on current tech news in many cases. So I… Read More What To Expect in 2010
Last year, I wrote about the ten most talked about posts of 2008 on this blog, and I figured it would be a good idea again for 2009. This list contains the posts with the most number of comments. Some of these are the same as those with the most page views, but some are… Read More RegularGeek Most Talked About Posts of 2009
You may have heard of a new site called Simler. Wait. You haven’t? Well, the first thing you should do is check Louis Gray’s latest coverage of the site. Why should you check this out? Well, Louis has written three posts on Simler, and normally when you get that much coverage from Louis, you are… Read More Are We Simler? A Chat With Ryan Goodwin
Last week I mentioned receiving an email asking what a software engineer typically does. In that post, I talked about defending technical decisions. Today, I am continuing this thread by talking about design. In many companies and projects, design occurs before any development is allowed to start. This is considered “Big Design Up Front” or… Read More Software Engineering Tasks: Design
In a not so surprising move, Google finally released a URL shortener. To start, it is available in the Google Toolbar as well as Feedburner. This will likely spell doom for TwitterFeed unless they come up with some seriously interesting features. Earlier in the day, Facebook decided it wanted to get in on the analytics… Read More The Fight For Data Intensifies
It was two years ago today that I started this blog and it feels like ages ago. I am not sure if year 2 was more interesting than year 1, but the blog has been a lot of fun. Also of note, this is post 299, so in a few days I will be at… Read More Happy 2nd Birthday Regular Geek
For whatever reason, Google has been pushing some fascinating new releases and updates lately. I am not sure if this is a rush of work prior to holiday vacations or increased competition, but in any case I like what is happening in most cases. Yesterday, Google had another batch of releases for us. First, there… Read More Google Shows Us The Future
The battle for control of your digital identity has begun. Yesterday, Yahoo announced that they will be integrating Facebook Connect throughout their sites. Some people may say that this is Yahoo hoping to maintain relevance, but Yahoo is still one of the most trafficked sites in the world, and it still maintains the largest online… Read More Google And Facebook Find Allies In Digital Identity Battle
Twitter is placing itself in an interesting position. They love the growth of their user base, but sometimes they do not love the way people use the application. A simple example of this is the retweet. The community driven idea is copying someone’s tweet and prepending it with “RT” and possibly adding a short comment.… Read More Twitter Is Fighting With Their Users For Metadata
Earlier this week, we saw that LinkedIn announced a partnership with Twitter. The basic idea is that LinkedIn status updates (yes, they have them too), can now be pushed to Twitter, and Twitter updates will be pulled into LinkedIn using the #in hashtag. This does not sound like much and Marshall Kirkpatrick says as much… Read More It Is Official, Twitter Is The Microblogging De Facto Standard
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