The Moleskine Project: I've always been a sucker for the Moleskine notebooks. I swear by them and I'm always on the lookout for new types of notebooks, journals and diaries.More recently they're doing very interesting stuff online as well. See for yourself and have a look at their Moleskine City Blogs , or at Detour , the Molesking city notebook experience.p...

Server side paging using Common Table Expressions: If you're not into under-the-hood technobabble: do yourself a big favor and skip this post. Yesterday I've rewritten the query for fetching blog posts from the back-end database. Not only I wanted it to be cleaner written and faster, but my pal and I were also in desperate need of 'Previous entries' - 'Next entries' buttons at the bottom of the page (this is called paging). The addition of this tiny feature would allow us to reduce the number of posts shown on ...

MyBlogLog.com brings the blogosphere together: The new ‘MyBlogLog Readers’ widget in the right column deserves an explanation. One of the aspects of the Web these ‘2.0’ days is the fact that online communities have become more fragmented and ephemere. People (readers, bloggers) assembling around a blog (or number of blogs) may form distributed communities overtime, that currently only materialize in the comments people leave in these spaces. And the majority of readers who don’t contribute (the lurkers, what a terrible word!) remain unkno...