Perhaps it isn't April Fools day after all! Pottermore Shop now open

I mentioned last week that Pottermore is set to open to the public on April 1st unless it is a cruel April Fool’s Day joke to Potter fans. It seems the Pottermore team is hoping to dispel the fears that it might be a joke by releasing part of the site (a part that wasn’t previously even available...

Mar 27, 2012 3 minute read.

Web Intents are Great | Web Intents are Horrible

Web Intents in Google Chrome 19+ changed what happens when you view an Atom or RSS Link, here's how to get your XML Back

May 30, 2012 2 minute read.

How To: Hide content from search engines, and why you would do it

My latest overview post on Justia’s Legal Marketing and Technology Blog is all about the Robots Exclusion Standard. I explain reasons why you may need to block certain content from search engines, as well as explain the different mechanisms available to you to do so. Check it out ! In general,...

May 03, 2017 13 minute read.

Page Performance Tips and Tools: Speed Up Your Website Today!

UPDATE January 18, 2018: Google has announced an upcoming algorithm change for mobile search results which they have dubbed the “ Speed Update .” We’ve written a post about this algorithm change and what it means for page speed. According to a pair of studies done by Akamai and Gomez ( collated...

Jul 05, 2017 12 minute read.

Google’s Upcoming Mobile “Speed Update” Algorithm Change: What You Need to Know

Google has announced an upcoming change to their algorithm dubbed the "Speed Update." In my latest blog post on Justia's Legal Marketing and Technology Blog, I describe the update and explain how it will impact the SEO performance of your website. UPDATE JULY 9, 2018 – The “Speed Update” is now...

Jan 18, 2018 3 minute read.

Welcome to the new NickMoline.com

After several years of being separate, I've merged my personal sites of NickMoline.com and Nick.pro into a single site, and given it a pretty substantial overhaul at the same time.

Aug 30, 2020 9 minute read.

Pottermore Cheats: Earning more house points through failure then success in potion making

UPDATE 9/14/2011: TH_NK has updated Pottermore so that you no longer earn house points when you fail to brew a potion, this simple fix nullifies the cheating method mentioned below, Hurrah! I’m going to preface what I’m going to say below with the statement that I am not putting this post up as...

Aug 27, 2011 3 minute read.

Pottermore Cheats Update: Potions are Better now, but the site still has a way to go

I don’t know if the people from TH_NK read my post about cheating on Pottermore by purposeful failing at potion making, or one of the many other online forums posting about the issue, but a few days after my post went live, they posted on the Pottermore Insider blog that potions are being tweaked...

Sep 14, 2011 3 minute read.

On the Difficulty of Pottermore House Cup Competitions

My last 2 posts were both about cheats on earning and keeping House Points on Pottermore. Continuing that series, I thought I would write a little bit on task-based point competitions. “Now, as I understand it, the house cup here needs awarding, and the points stand thus…” The first problem with...

Sep 18, 2011 4 minute read.

Migrating my blog and personal site to Jekyll

After several years of using Wordpress as my blogging platform of choice, I've made the decision to move my personal site to Jekyll static site generator . Why I'm doing this Super Fast As I've blogged about on Justia's Legal Marketing & Technology Blog several times, web performance matters ....

Aug 20, 2020 5 minute read.

Archive Tweaks

Ok, now that I’m using the application/xhtml+xml mime type instead of text/html , using a real browser shows you where you have improperly formatted W3C incompliant code on your pages. So I’ve gone through each and every blog entry and fixed the errors in my old badly formatted XHTML. I’ve also...

Aug 17, 2004 1 minute read.

AMP Update: Get Even More AMPed in 2018

In my latest Justia Blog post I discuss the latest developments in Google's Acclerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project over the last year.

Feb 09, 2018 5 minute read.