Spaghetti code, big balls of mud, and copy-and-paste programming. We've all seen it before, and it ain't pretty. So what do you do when you need to fend off God objects, infinitely intertwined GOTOs, highly-coupled code, or other anti-patterns?

So you built a website. The design is beautiful, the content is filled in, and it has been submitted to all of the major search engines. So why is no one visiting your site? Turns out that there's a lot more that goes into bringing visitors to your site than many people initially realize.

"Remember the days before spam?" I barely can, but this slogan for Akismet might really hit home for some. Spam has become quite a nuisance for just about everybody who uses the Internet, especially for those who run websites. 

The Interwebs have been ablaze over the last few months with articles and commentary regarding HTML5. While this is remarkable in and of itself given that HTML5 will not be officially ready until the year 2022, the fact that browsers are starting to implement some of the features from the current draft of the language has triggered some interesting comments.