Stories by henning

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

37Signals' "37BetterBank", circa 1998, is still better than my bank's interface from 2008

PBwiki's hiring gimmick: "ITS [sic] PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME"

Computer programming for everybody

Q: Can you shove a million spam pages down Google's throat in May 2008? A: Yes

Dennis Ritchie (R from K&R) explains "/* You are not expected to understand this */"

Alone Together in World of Warcraft, the most popular MMORPG

San Jose is hell on earth

Astronomy Picture of the Day: 13 years and going strong

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