http://www.nevndave.com Nev n Dave's software development adventures Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:07:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The image above shows the categories I (Nev) have in bloglines . Tip 7 from part 1 of Top 10 tips for effective blog reading is to re-organise your categories. But how do you do it? Here’s how I went from my old category system to this one. Decided on category names Went through ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/12/20/effective-blog-reading-part-2-categories/ Ah… blogs - one of the best ways to waste lots of time. Here are the top 10 tips we’ve found for being more productive when reading blogs. Before going any further investigate different blog readers - if you’re going to spend time reading blogs, use the right tools for the job. ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/12/02/top-10-tips-for-effective-blog-reading-part-1/ Search engines have become essential when browsing the web. There’s no doubt about it. With the wealth of information on the internet these days, we need good tools to help us find what we’re looking for. Take Google for example. It is for most users the central source of information ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/28/top-search-engine-optimization-tips/ Woo hoo! Finally, the Googlebot has come to our site and crawled our pages. If you do a search for “Nev n Dave”, you’ll find we are #1 on Google of 569,000 other links. Incidentally, we’re also #1 on Yahoo, MSN, A9, Alexa, Vivisimo and AskJeeves … That’s pretty amazing! http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/23/googlebot-shows-up/ These days it is pretty safe to say that Java developers are generally divided into two main camps when talking about their IDEs. There’s IntelliJ IDEA which is a commercial product from Jetbrains and there’s Eclipse which is a free open source product. Personally, I think both products are good for ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/16/intellij-idea-vs-eclipse/ Can you recall the last time you were imprisoned in a meeting during which you lost all sense of time, could not stop yourself yawning and wished you could get back to your desk and actually do some real work? Well, I’m sure you’ve all experienced it. Don’t deny it, I ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/15/those-boring-meetings/ The office farewell is a ritual in any workplace. It is a time to celebrate someone leaving the “family” and going on to bigger and better things. Often the manager would stand up, make a speech about how so and so have contributed to the organisation and illustrate some of ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/15/office-farewells/ We’re adding ourselves to a couple of comic directories. So vote for us if you want to help us because you’ll get good karma! Honest. Just click on the image below! http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/14/vote-for-us/ Ah the GoogleBot. Googlebot is Google’s web-crawling robot. Its job is to go out into the great Internet unknown and collect documents to build a searchable index for the Google search engine. In order for a site to be listed on Google’s homepage and be available for searching, that site ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/13/googlebot-puttying-and-tailing-logs/ Searching for domain names is such a drag. For anyone who’s had the opportunity to look for and register a domain name, this process I’m sure would have had been a major source of frustration. Good names are generally taken. Most of the time they are used for a lame ... http://www.nevndave.com/2005/11/13/domain-name-searching/