A bit more than a month ago I was listening to a podcast between Jeremy Wright and Tyme talking about blog networks. During the conversation the topic of feed statistics came up. Jeremy astutely mentioned how most website statistics programs count a “feed check” (my term) as a page view. This certainly isn’t desirable. Why?
I’ve noticed a trend recently, and I’m not sure I like it. More and more sites are being designed which will not fit within the width of an 800×600 screen. Many of Apple’s new pages include graphics that are much wider than 800 pixels, and CNN redesigned their site layout in the past few days [...]
One thing I love about blogs is that every now and then someone mentions a tip which totally changes how you work. This happened to me yesterday. Peter over at The Blog Studio wrote about how to design a blog. And among the couple dozen juicy paragraphs in the article he wrote this.
I use a [...]
More than a year ago I signed up for the AOL Feedback Loop. This is a tool for network administrators to receive notification if any emails sent from your servers are reported as spam by AOL recipients.
Some of my clients run large, double-opt-in mailing lists. Frequently AOL members click on the ‘this is spam’ button [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to play around with a copy of Dreamweaver on a friend’s computer. Mainly I wanted to play around with the PHP/MySQL integration and see if I could develop a web-app via WYSIWYG. I didn’t hold high expectations.
If you want to learn PHP/MySQL, this isn’t the way to do it. Without [...]
One of the RSS subscriptions I read every morning is the Secunia Security Advisories. This list tells me all of the new vulnerabilities discovered in software. Having my own small “hosting company” I keep tabs on all of the software I or my clients install on the server and compare that list to any security [...]
I came across a site today with a very unique product. Basically it is a GPS receiver that you take long with you while skiing that is constantly logging your position. Then at the end of the day the data can be downloaded, analyzed, and printed showing you things like the number of runs you [...]
It has been one week since my new GPS Review website opened. Seven days ago I created the script that would feed Google updated XML sitemaps, submitted my site to MSN, Yahoo, and Google and blogged about it here. Now that it has been running for one week, here is an update.
I currently rank #1 [...]
Over at Netcraft there is an article about the onslaught of security vulnerabilities found in phpBB. Here is one of the downsides of being popular… you become a good target of attacks. In the grand scheme of things phpBB probably isn’t a ton more vulnerable than other discussion forum software, however it makes for a [...]
A major flaw has been found in the XML-RPC library. This library is found in many software packages based on PHP. From discussion forums to blogs to CMS systems many PHP software packages use the XML-RPC.
I heard about the flaws and had taken full preventative measures on all sites across all of my servers within [...]