http://www.davidincyberspace.com The home of David Andersson, developer extraordinaire. Creator of PurposeGames.com, Trader's Workbench, TBTicker. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was interviewed about PurposeGames and the story behind it by a Journalist from El Periódico which is a daily paper in Barcelona. Today it got published. You can read it here. (only in Spanish) http://www.davidincyberspace.com/interviewed-in-el-periodico/ I've been developing an End-Of-Day (EOD) quote updater for my charting program Trader's Workbench. I have the basic update functionality available from within the workbench, but as I felt that this might be something that other people could use, I would like to hear from YOU. What do you think ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/creating-a-stock-quotes-manager/ I've been following Joost for a while (who hasn't?). If you are unfamiliar with it, it's the new venture of Skype and Kazaa entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, where the latter of the two may just be the winner of this year's weird-name-award. They're brilliant. Of course they are. I, ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/joost-too-little-too-early/ Scene 1 JD, looking nervously at the janitor:  - Hey man, how's it going? The Janitor, on a ladder fixing a light-bulb, looking down at JD:  - I'm 37 years old. I'm a janitor. How do you think it's going? With many other TV-shows, they get really good season 2 and can last to maybe ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/scrubs-season1-episode-2/ Whatever Internet once was, it is now an advertising arena where links have become a highly valued commodity. Companies have been started around it (blogvertising etc.) and nowadays everyone and their dog knows that nothing is more valuable in terms of ending up at the top of your favourite search engine, ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/internet-a-marketplace-for-links/ First of all, let me say that I like social communities and I've been a proponent of it for a long time. Back in the 80's when I was around 12-14 years old I used to call Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) with my 300/300 baud modem - yes that's correct ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/why-facebook-will-fade/ I've been developing a couple of websites now and thought I'd share some of the observations I made along the way. Feel free to state your opinion as well. First of all, I've never ever seen the meta tag "keywords" ever matter. Never. The "Description" tag matters, in the sense that ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/does-meta-keywords-tag-matter/ Ever since early spring I've been really lazy in updating my webspace. Sure, I've been working a lot and also keeping PurposeGames going, but still there was something else keeping me from doing it. I've found - not surprisingly - that if I find something to not be completely to my liking, ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/updating-david-in-cyberspace/ Someone said to me the other day that in order to keep your blog alive and interesting, you need to update it six times a day! Wow. How about that? Obviously someone who does that is either paid to write or very new at blogging (when things are new and shiny, ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/update-six-times-a-day/ Having tried out about 6-8 various trial versions of charting tools, there among Equis MetaStock and Wealth-Lab, which were both pretty good but lacking so many features that I want and also inherits the "where to get the quote data from"-problem. I decided to take the plunge and write my ... http://www.davidincyberspace.com/traders-workbench/