Technical SEO, search intelligence, and the code behind it — notes from 20+ years of making websites work harder.
Hacking the QDR parameter in Google's URL lets you filter results by the last X minutes — or seconds. A small trick, possibly a sign of where real-time search is heading.
A recruiter's assignment: take a black-and-white mockup and propose a way to represent it. Here's the HTML I ended up with, and the reasoning behind every tag.
Authentication fine, file listing fine, writes failing silently — half a day chasing a Mac FTP client against a Windows server, until the passive mode gave it away.
Wiping all appointments and contacts from a Windows Mobile PDA is not as simple as it should be. The workaround — sync against a fake, empty Outlook profile.
Between the whitelist and the blacklist sits the greylist — a small trick at the SMTP layer that, in my experience, kills roughly 99% of spam before it reaches the inbox.
A customer calls about a broken print preview on a freshly built site. After half a day of testing, the culprit turns out to be the name of a single div.