Dan

Author's details

Name: Dan Hanley
Date registered: June 14, 2011
URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danhanley

Biography

Dan Hanley is Chief Technology Officer at Magus, responsible for the development and operations of our platform and client applications. He joined Magus in 2003. He has over twenty years' industry experience, focusing exclusively on internet technologies. Dan also heads up our innovative R&D program, including our pioneering Semantic Web development. Dan holds a BSc from the National University of Ireland and an MSc from London South Bank University.

Latest posts

  1. Making ActiveStandards stronger, more flexible, and even more reliable — April 20, 2012
  2. Handy hints: optimising for Google — January 20, 2012
  3. Avoiding search “Panda” monium — August 25, 2011
  4. Rewriting history — July 28, 2011
  5. Loss of translation — July 18, 2011

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Making ActiveStandards stronger, more flexible, and even more reliable

With our Spring ’12 Release we’re making our most substantial update to ActiveStandards since it was launched in 2006. One of the key things about this particular release is that all the features you’re used to have been retained, but we’ve overhauled the underlying platform technology to deliver an application that is more user-friendly, more …

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Handy hints: optimising for Google

I think Google’s blog posts are always a good starting point for site optimisation ideas, and last Thursday’s instalment is no exception. As usual, the post focuses on ongoing changes to search, and there is enough detail to provide a glimpse of what matters to the search engines but not enough to make it easy …

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Avoiding search “Panda” monium

5 tips to help global digital marketers successfully manage Google’s Panda Update Earlier this spring, Google released its “Panda” (or Farmer) algorithm update into its search engine results.  Six months later, to say it’s been a game-changer for many of the world’s largest websites would be an understatement. Demand Media, which went public in January, …

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Rewriting history

In the last of my series of posts on social media’s effect on software, I take a look at version control. Which version control model do you use? Are you an advocate of centralised version control (CVS)? Or do you prefer a distributed model? Traditionally, most people have opted for CVS – a single version …

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Loss of translation

In the second in my series of posts on social media trends, I take a look at internationalisation – and yes, the Google Translate controversy. In the olden days, if you wanted a site, you built one. If you wanted the same site in another language, you built another one, and hired an expensive translator …

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