What follows here is a quick introduction to the magic of cURL. This was inspired by the comment of Bruce Lawson on my 24 ways article: Seems very cool and will help me with a small Xmas project. Unfortunately, you lost me at “Do the curl call”. Care to explain what’s happening there? What is […]

Yesterday I spent my evening updating the Developer Evangelism Handbook: The updates include: A new chapter on preparing good slide decks for presentations A new, cleaner print version of the book (yes, I battled with Word) The rest remains the same: Developer Evangelism is a new kind of role in IT companies. This is the […]

I was asked by .net magazine to list my five most used applications at the moment and why not publish my results here, too. So here is what I use to deliver my day to day job as a developer evangelist: Krusader on Linux, Total Commander on Windows or Forklift on Mac – are the […]

If you do a lot of research using web searches can be frustrating. Different search engines have different results, you need to open things in tabs and in general it can be pretty time consuming to find what you need. To make this a bit easier I thought it’d be cool to have an interface […]

My esteemed colleague Stoyan Stefanov is currently running an advent calendar (blog post a day) on performance. Today I have a guest slot on his blog showing how you can use YQL to retrieve five RSS feeds much faster than with any other technology. As stated at the end of the article, you could use […]