Responsibilities and it's derivative — abstractions — are one of the more ambiguous aspects of software quality, at least to me. When I talk about software quality, I usually talk about quantifiable/measurable things like Complexity, length, naming conventions, formatting, duplications, and so on. These measurable aspects can be checked for…

Rewrite software components regularly to avoid rewriting all of it eventually — The software industry has changed tremendously over the past decade. One of the things that’s changed the most is the software development process. That change was triggered by an ongoing increase in the rate at which new user requirements have to be implemented, packaged, and shipped. …

So after designing, implementing and testing your site, you are finally ready to make it live. But a website is more than just a bunch of images, text and some ninja JavaScript magic tricks. Having published quite a few websites of my own, I realized that there are many things…

I’ve recently decided to move one of my WordPress sites to use a secure SSL connection. I’ve heard that Google was starting to use HTTPS as a ranking tool, and I couldn’t let that hurt my rankings. Since my WordPress site was a multisite — this process was a bit…