3 Tips for Effective Web Writing
Web writing is a genre of its own, and one day universities will offer degrees in it just like they do for journalism. (In fact, some probably do already.) Half way between newspaper and brochure...
View ArticleWhere’s Sean Been?
All quiet on the blog front lately. So where’ve I been? Well, I moved to Austin for a project I’m working on called Common Tastes. It’s a recommendation engine for anything and everything, which we...
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Forget “Reach” For Measuring Social Media ROI (At Least Until It’s Actually...
Photo by Twitter user Charl22 HubSpot recently wrote that “reach” (your number of Twitter followers and Facebook “likes”) is the number 1 way to measure social media ROI, saying: The number of Twitter...
View ArticleMore On the Crapping Up of Twitter: I Am Not Alone
Scott Vandehey seems to agree with my (according to feedback I got) charming, popular opinion on the futility of trying to attach any kind of meaningful meaning to the number of your Twitter followers....
View ArticleToo Many Sean McClearys On The Dance Floor
Just look at this guy at the 35-second mark… Not only is he also a websman; not only is he also from Oregon; but he also has my haircut!
View ArticleNew Open Source Projct – MVC Basics
After getting sick of copying the same basic functionality into each new ASP.NET MVC 3 project, I ripped it out and put it into a separate easy-to-use package called Sean’s MVC Basics. Right now it’s...
View ArticleProperty Accessors using Traits in PHP 5.4
When you first wrote your PHP application, your Customer class just had a fullName property, and all was good. ”Hi there, <?= $customer->fullName ?>!” your code gleefully outputs at the top...
View Article3 Signs Your Object-Oriented PHP Is Slowing Down Your Team
In the last few versions of PHP, their OOP got real. And this is good. While it’s not the perfect paradigm, I am a big fan of object-oriented programming. One of the key concepts in object-oriented...
View ArticleTired of waiting for an RPM of MonoDevelop 4.0?
So was I, so I decided to build it on Fedora 18. Unfortunately, building MonoDevelop from scratch turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. So when I finally got it, I created a script to to it. See...
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Is Your Program a Product?
When you write a program, whom are you writing it for? Stupid question? Your boss. Or maybe the customer. WRONG, BUCKO. You’re writing it for other programmers. “Who are these other programmers?” you...
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