Stories by Hen-Riches

A web framework author on why he chose against ERB/JSP/ASP style (string template) views

Blender: far from a toy, it can produce beautiful 3D images and movies (and it's free)

Why you only need 5 users for usability testing

The Fail Whale Fan Club

Skinny controllers, skinny models (as opposed to fat models)

Frontiers of the Turing Test: is this a splog or not?

The Chicago Tribune should own Chicago history (newspaper archiving)

How to make WordPress more secure [pdf]

Ask: Are content management packages like Drupal, Joomla, Zope, etc. worth it?

Blizzard announces Diablo III

Please stop using global variables in Ruby (that means you, Rails!)

Video: "Interrogation"

The exciting, confusing world of middleware

Using packet sniffing to build a World of Warcraft bot

Splash pages: when Blizzard does it, it's cool

Jakob Nielsen: making the 1% of websites that don't suck even better

Letters to Philip Zimmermann on how human rights groups used PGP to protect against death squads

The ROI for large monitors is clear and well-documented (PDF)

Yahoo Mail fucking sucks

Detox: the Duke Nukem Forever of the hip-hop industry

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