Laws like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), on the surface, make a lot of sense. Piracy is a problem. Theft of intellectual property is indeed a problem. I and my customers have been victims of it ourselves. SOPA and PIPA try to solve these problems, but (a) do so in a circumventable way, and (b) punish legitimate businesses in the process. It’s bad legislation, and it needs to be stopped. Read More …

At the end of the year, I like to pause and think a bit about where Honest Code has been and where we’re going. I know I’m a little late for a New Year’s Day message, but hopefully it’s close enough to work.

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This morning, I received this email from a client:

I was looking at blogging and found some real interesting reads. Can you share your experience on blogging and how we can implement this from our WEB site?  I want to link our website to Facebook, LinkedIn, [and use] social media to draw more traffic.  In general, we need to drive SEO.  Can we re-sync on the objectives and see if we are still on plan?

What the client is talking about here is Content Strategy. Content Strategy (the proper noun) is a relatively new field, and it requires a certain amount of work to create and maintain a successful content strategy. Read More …

Perhaps you’ve heard the news: MC Hammer is launching a new search engine! Exciting! He has lots of press behind him, and 13,000 people liked the CNN story alone.

For the sake of argument, let’s set aside the obvious jokes and the Sisyphean task of competing against Google, and just look at what they have to date. Read More …

I really hate to disappoint, but I’m (hopefully only temporarily) pulling the peggd app from the Apple App Store. The reason is this: When you try to edit a saved page using peggd and iOS 5, the app crashes. Boo. Your changes are saved, however, but the crashing is annoying.

The app is a little over a year old, and since I haven’t really done a whole lot of iOS programming in the meantime, my skills are rusty as all getout. Add to that a new IDE, new requirements for iOS 5, and the fact that the app is in desperate need of a facelift. There’s no way I’m going to be able to promise a timetable for fixing all the issues I know need to be fixed.

I do apologize to all of peggd’s fans, and I hope to be able to start on a new version soon. In the meantime, the web app works great! Give it a try.

Thanks again!