Out ego surfing your colleagues, featuring Olaf Spinkel, Parminder Matharu and Daniele Sangalli.

Ooh, what’s this?
I’ve been noticing “Oohgle” adverts on the tube trains around London recently. They consist of no information about the product, just a bright pixelated search button containing the text “Oohgle”.
Now, I usually get a bit annoyed with adverts that don’t tell you what they are selling, but this time it was so sparse [...]

I’ve started using Zend Framework for a project I’m under taking here at TradeDoubler. I’m building a new part of Searchware that is essentially standalone, so figured that this is a great oportunity to push for framework support. Better form validation, less scope for creating errors in trivial donkey work coding because it’s already done [...]

I was out on the monthly schnitzel night last night, a periodical gathering of former IMW employees, where we drink beer, eat pork and talk about, amongst other things, the search industry.
JP Jones, former CTO at buy.at Leads, handed me his well used iPhone (he got his hands on it seemingly before Steve Jobs managed [...]

I know a lot about click fraud, I won’t claim to be a “pioneer” of today’s scene (if that’s a suitable term), but once upon a time I certainly was breaking ground – amongst other things. Does that mean I agree with it? Well, no is the simple answer, but in some cases the answer [...]

There, I said it.
Drupal has a huge following and a very impressive community of contributors, it seems to be growing in popularity every week which is made apparent by the number of contracts available requiring Drupal experience. Surely it must be good in that case, right?
Because of this I decided I should make some effort [...]