Eric Mann's Blog

  • Quality Traffic

    If you’re reading this, you’re probably in my target reader group. If you have left a comment previously, you’re definitely in that group. So, unscientifically, what prompts you to leave a comment and engage in the conversation?

  • Pick a Topic

    Today, I wanted to share some tips for picking article topics when you’re otherwise faced with writers’ block.

  • How Secure is the Internet of Things?

    How secure are you? Really?

  • DVCS is Broken

    While Git (and Mercurial) is a lifesaver when it comes to easily branching, tagging, and resolving merge conflicts, Subversion (and TFS and the like) is superior when it comes to sub-project management.

  • Full-Stack Application Development

    My ideal blogging app/content management system/application platform would take the entire stack into account.

  • The Path to my Present

    I get to keep telling stories for my customers, and I get to keep writing my own as I go.

  • The Benefits of Public Speaking

    I speak at conferences not just because there’s something cool I want to present, but because there’s something cool I want to learn.

  • Understanding Parallel Processing

    When I explain to people that I enjoy writing code in C# more than PHP, they scratch their collective heads and, with a quizzical look, always respond, “why?” My biggest reason: I really enjoy working with parallel processing.

  • How To: Blog Every Day

    I write every day. I also publish a blog every day – even if what I wrote that day wasn’t publishable.

  • Data Leakage – Part 2

    When you click a link on a page, your browser takes that page’s URL and sends it along with you as the “Referer” header. The site you end up on can then track exactly which sites are sending traffic. If your site is private (i.e. an internal company blog) and you link to an external site, you are advertising to that external resource the URL of the page you linked from.