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Is Switching To a More Advanced Language Going To Make You a Better Developer?

Occasionally, and probably less often than I should, I read blogs and newsletters about programming and frameworks. Usually instead of finding useful information about the latest developments I’m finding flame wars on languages. They most often target PHP, though sometimes come from Java and .NET guys and target Ruby, Python and Perl.
“PHP isn’t even a [...]

Random Thoughts About Developing A Facebook App

I’ve built a small Facebook application for parents mostly with the idea to see their API works and if it could be a decent widgetbait.
The application is still quite simple, but I think the idea is good – it’s lets you spread the word about your children by placing a badge in your profile. In [...]

Celeroo Builder Is Alive

Today morning Celeroo Builder went live. If you have a web development project at your plate, you can sign up risk free and build it in probably 50% of the time that you would need if coding it manually.
Even if you are not a developer yourself, you can benefit from the builder. You can draft [...]

Web software development ain’t unlike Dating

Here’s a nice article – Web software development ain’t unlike Dating – posted on Celeroo Blog sharing an interesting approach to web development.
If you are a software developer or company struggling in the unsure market right now, it’s much likely that you are failing at some of the points discussed there.
Most developers/studios websites [...]

What’s Your Point Of Difference In Web Design or Development?

“We do web design and development” doesn’t work. “We do low cost PHP/MySQL” doesn’t work either. There are too many who do that and your head isn’t going to stick up in the mob. Low cost is a bitch anyway.
“I am the best programmer” or “We have a great team” is just as flawed. “Best” [...]

Widgetbait Case Study – Update 2

Just a quick update on the widgetbait case study. Today the target investment calculator page is ranking on page 5 in Google and on page 12 in Live. Yahoo is still not showing it within the first 20 pages.
Fifth page in Google may not be a huge thing but is significant progress since the previous [...]

Widgetbait Case Study Continued

If you have no idea what is all about, please check the first post.
There is no PR update yet, but 10 days after releasing the investment calculator plugin the first results can be seen.
Searches for “investment calculator plugin”, “investment calculator wordpress”, “investment calculator wordpress plugin” and “investment calculator wp” all rank sharkinvestor.com on the [...]

WidgetBait Case Study: A Wordpress Plugin

A couple months ago I made a small test with FirstTimer Worpdress Plugin. When published it and with almost no effort the page got PR 6 and still has it. Considering that the homepage of this site has only PR 3, this sounded quite interesting.
The Investment Calculator Case Study
When I created FirstTimer I did not [...]

Your Website Is Boring.

We are a company specialized in…
We are a team of professionals that…
Welcome to our website! We made it to…
Zzzzzzzzzz….
Next time when you make your company or personal website spend less time thinking about that rounded blue corner that no one will notice and put some effort to make the entire site more interesting. Because, you [...]

Honesty Sells

How do you sell yourself, your services or your products?
There are many approaches, but surprisingly most people go with one – blatant self promotion. I guess I won’t surprise you if I told you self promotion and hype no longer work.
There are several well known online marketing “gurus” who own huge mailing lists and send [...]