Autor: Christian

There’s a new post on problogger covering some really helpful tips on writing blog post. Matter of fact those tips are great for writing in general. Hopefully I’ll remember them when I start writing blog post one day.

Actually the Game Jam is still running for a few hours but the 48h competition has just finished. Now’s the time to start playing the games. Go ahead, it’s fun, it’s free and don’t forget to vote!  

Here’s a talk by Martin Jonasson and Petri Purho giving some „simple tricks“ to improve gaming experience of your game. Or for this weekend your Ludum Dare entry. Have fun and good luck with your entry.

A few weeks ago I read an article on open floor plans by Rick Smith. Working in a large room, with a lot of other people is not an efficient way to be productive. At least if you need to concentrate. The question arises why this is still common practice. Is it because it’s hard…

It’s not so easy to create a good user interface. A key consideration is to meet user expectations. And user expectations are very much bound to the context/environment of the program. For example, if you start using „Windows shortcuts“ like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+F on a Mac you’ll surely break users expectations. Same thing goes for text operations.…

In the wake of the heartbleed bug there’ve been quite a few sites that renewed their security certificates. Here’s a link to a site with a revoked certificate, where you can check if your browser handles revoked certificates correctly e.g. not displaying it.

If you are trying to figure out what Google might think of a specific change aimed improve your ranking. A good idea is to take a look at the videos created by Matt Cutts. Since watching all those videos is quite time consuming the nice folks over at „theshortcutts“ took care of that for you.…

I recently came across an article on how to defer loading of javascript by Patrick Sexton. This is one of the steps to reduce the time until your visitor gets to see your content.

Where do you start looking for vulnerabilities when you think about security of a web service? As the guys at detectify.com laid out in more detail (and with a great example) many bugs lurk in seldom used and/or very old parts of the system. The idea behind this is as simple as effective. Old sections are…

Reversing file formats without taking a look at the program that’s doing the actual processing can be quite challenging. Brian Raiter wrote an essay on his approach on reverse engineering a crossword puzzle file format.