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Outgoing Links Effect for SEO: Experiment

There's been a lot of debate about whether external linking helps or hurts your SEO and most of the SEO experts including the gurus at SEOmoz tend to think of external-linking as a good strategy.

Go Get A Cofounder [Mistakes I Made #5]

This is the 5th post in the "Mistakes I made" series, where I share the "donts" of my startup experience.

I'll start from afar. My website has a number of pricing tables and I thought the tables look just fine. Until one morning I realized that they're a complete usability nightmare. Here's the "before" look:

"90% of your users are idiots"

I just overheard this conversation between two developers at a co-working site:

"I plan creating a prototype for my new XXXX application, whatcha think it should be - a web-app, or a desktop app?"

What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers?

What if drivers were hired like software developers?

Rootkit on a brand new Toshiba Laptop

Sorry for the offtopic, this post has nothing to do with startups, web-development or entrepreneurship, but I felt I should still write this

I've just discovered a built-in rootkit in my wife's brand new Toshiba laptop. A non-removable malicious software application right from the manufacturer. That even captured and sent-out screenshots of my wife's work... But first things first.

Why I hate IE6. And why I miss IE6

I'm getting kinda tired of cross-browser development. Yes, I know... The more the better, competition rocks, rendering standards are great, FireFox is cool, Chrome is awesome, and the evil MSIE monopoly is sacrilege.

Lessons learned from The Traffic Spike

My recent blog post about the Chinese hard drive has attracted HUGE amounts of traffic

Chinese Magical Hard-Drive

A Russian friend of mine has posted this absolutely amazing story.

Happy Webmasters Day

While deploying a new build of our hosted help-desk I ran into a bunch of "not found" service pages... And then realized that it's the 4th of April!

ASP.NET Session: Caching Expiring Values

Another post for ASP.NET/C# developers reading this blog. If you think these posts do not belong here, please leave a comment, and I'll consider moving my development articles to a separate blog.

Pretty often I need to cache something in the Session object, and expire the stored value after, say, 5 minutes. Just like it would in the ASP.NET Cache storage.

But the session state has no expiration concept. And the Cache object - well, cache is not specific to a user-session, it's application-wide. So I created this tiny useful extension class for this. Hope the code explains itself:

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