Setting up App Engine Patch Locally on Ubuntu

August 2, 2009

Since the latest release of Google App Engine SDK, Django 1.0 is officially supported by Google App Engine and in the article Unleash Django with app-engine-patch the advantages of using App Engine Patch (which allows you to use more Django functionality on Google App Engine) are well described. However the documentation of App Engine Patch [...]

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Explore Your Back-Links. Here’s How!

June 21, 2009

In the Google Webmaster Guidelines it states “avoid links to web spammers or ‘bad neighborhoods’ on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links” and it is important to remember that this advice applies to both your forward and back-links. It is easy to control the forward-links of your website [...]

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Keeping Your Inbox Empty with Gmail – Part 1

June 8, 2009

During my time at Google I have instructed more than 450 Googlers with best practices on how to keep your inbox empty while using Gmail. Especially in a company like Google, the possibility of information overload is something to keep in mind, be aware of and hopefully avoid. I will hereby, in a couple of [...]

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Speeding Up the Experience of Your Website

June 6, 2009

Nowadays websites contain a lot of elements, like images, videos, CSS style sheets, Javascript (including AJAX), etc. And with HTML 5 being supported by the newer browsers, it seems that the number of elements in a single page is only likely to increase in the near future. With that in mind, it is important to [...]

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Succeeding Online with a Small Business Website

June 5, 2009

This article will discuss how small businesses, with no major online presence, can still take advantage of the possibilities that web has to offer and how to increase their clientèle and/or branding without too much effort. First I will give you some background information: Recently I went to my favorite barbershop in my hometown Groningen [...]

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