Please repost / reblog / spread the word, should you have been victim of a similar act of plagiarism or copyright infringement! With my blog getting increasingly popular, I'm more and more facing the problem of plagiarism. Plagiarism is bad for a variety of reasons: It hurts the original author's SEO, as content starts getting … Continue reading Plagiarism is Copyright Infringement AND Poor Form
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The Announcer Badge on Stack Overflow
It just struck me like lightning. I just realised one (surely not the only) very important reason, why Stack Overflow always winds up at least once in the top 10 search results on Google for virtually any programming-related search. The Announcer Badge. When you share a link to a Stack Overflow question or answer using the … Continue reading The Announcer Badge on Stack Overflow
How to Make Your Advertisement Look Like Spam
I had experienced ZeroTurnaround's marketing and sales before, and I thought it was a bit agressive, although their products seem really nice and cool, so I had forgiven them at the time... However, looking at the numerous links to their product JRebel on CodeRanch just looks like quite offending spam to me. Consider an arbitrary … Continue reading How to Make Your Advertisement Look Like Spam
Get hidden feature requests from your users
In general, I'm not a marketing guy, I prefer to develop code. But when I look at modern marketing tools that we developers have created for our marketing friends, I'm getting a bit jealous. Take this blog, for instance. It's the perfect jOOQ marketing tool. Check out my 2013 visitor statistics: Quite obviously, my February … Continue reading Get hidden feature requests from your users