From the monthly archives:

December 2006

What I’m Doing in 2007

December 31, 2006 · 9 comments

2006 was a great year for me. I got to experience working at a big web company, started blogging more often and took some interesting courses at school. I plan to keep up with that for the most part, but overall I will be taking it easy while working hard. There’s no need to overwork myself taking 6 classes. [click to continue…]

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By now you are probably waiting for the final part of this web app series so you can actually begin putting something together from what you’ve learned in Part 1 and Part 2. I won’t disappoint you then. I wrote an example web app available for download at the end of this article. [click to continue…]

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The day I’ve been waiting for has come. Media Temple has launched the next version of their dedicated-virtual server. I have been using a (dv) 2.0 for about a year now and can’t wait to start using the new version of Plesk that comes with the (dv) 3.0. I just got off the phone with (mt) and will be migrating asap so if you see any downtime for whatever reason that would be my bad.

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In Part 1 of How To: Code Your First Web App, I covered the basics of setting up a MySQL database, connecting to it with PHP and then I introduced a few functions to create and manage users. At the end, I briefly went into setting up the header file which will be used with every file created from here on out. The next step is creating the main files that [click to continue…]

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In some crazy blog meme, I’ve been tagged by Glenn and Ralph. So here goes… 5 things you didn’t know about Stammy. I won’t be tagging anyone as I find that these little memes get annoying, just as Mr. 1938 does. [click to continue…]

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What Apps Did You Buy This Year?

December 27, 2006

There’s a lengthy discussion going on at Lifehacker about software that their readers have purchased this year. In the spirit of that post, I decided I might as well chime in and list the applications I have paid for this year or am planning on purchasing next year.

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How To: Code Your First Web App (Part 1)

December 27, 2006

In its most basic form, a web application is typically comprised of multiple files utilizing PHP and MySQL technologies on a LAMP server. PHP provides a powerful means of carrying out your web application’s functions by way of server-side scripting while MySQL is used to store information in a database. In this series of posts [...]

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24 Ways Wraps Up for 2006

December 24, 2006

24ways.org, the amazingly helpful and interesting “web geek advent calendar” organized by Yahoo! employee Drew McClellan, has finished for 2006. The 24 article run began on December 1st of this year and ended today with Dan Cederholm’s article about gravity-defying page corners.

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RIAA Takes on AllofMP3.com for $1.65 Trillion!

December 23, 2006

It appears the Russian AllofMP3.com has been handed a hefty lawsuit by the RIAA “on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music.” The lawsuit somehow justifies a cost of $150,000 per song downloaded from the site since October 2006. AllofMP3 carries something like 11 million songs so CyberNetNews calculates that out to [...]

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Snag 1 Year of Pingdom Site Monitoring… Hurry

December 22, 2006

Pingdom is giving away a year of site monitoring service on their blog to anyone that signs up for Pingdom by 6am EST Saturday. They are giving away many accounts – “the equivalent of at least $60,000″ worth of service. I reviewed Pingdom last month and was very pleased with their interface and offerings.

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Happy Holidays Contest #2

December 21, 2006

Keeping in-line with last year’s successful Happy Holidays Contest, I introduce to you the second annual Happy Holidays Contest. I got a lot of great suggestions and comments with the last contest. Last year I gave away a year of free Media Temple hosting on their (ss) shared server. However, a lot of things have [...]

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How To: Be a Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

December 20, 2006

Tech consulting has become a thriving industry for several key reasons. First off, there are many businesses devoid of any direction to establish an efficient workflow. It only takes a few steps for small businesses to effectively utilize currently available online technologies and services. Unfortunately, similar to SEO work, technical consulting can be very expensive [...]

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Opera 9.1 Released, Gets PhishTank Support

December 18, 2006

Opera 9.1 was released today and utilizes phishing information from PhishTank to provide real-time fraud protection. The new fraud protection goes beyond the anti-phishing capability introduced in earlier Opera releases. Check out the new features in 9.1 for yourself.

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The iPhone, by Linksys

December 18, 2006

Cisco announced a new line of VoIP iPhones sold under their Linksys division. Yup, they’re stepping on Apple’s toes a bit but rightfully so as Cisco has owned the iPhone trademark for a while now. Apple fans have been awaiting an Apple “iPhone” of sorts for a long time but it seems like Linksys was [...]

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Review: SEOBook’s Search Engine Marketing Glossary

December 17, 2006

SEOBook, a well-known site for all things search engine optimization, has recently published a comprehensive glossary. Their SEM glossary breaks down several hundred terms often used by those in the Search Engine Marketing know. In today’s review, I will be exploring this resource in more depth and figuring out

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