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| I've given up on Panda | 2011 11 | 2011/12/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I've given up on trying to fix the traffic and earnings plunge this site has suffered since Google started its series of "Panda" updates. I feel a bit sad about that. I hate giving up - it's just against my nature. I especially hate giving up when I'm still not entirely sure that there is not still some way to claw back to days of old. - | |||||
| Cranky Old Newsgroup Guys | 2011 09 | 2011/10/22 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - People new to the Internet may not even understand the difference between a forum and a Newsgroup. Indeed, many may never have participated in any Newsgroup discussions at all. If you have, it may have only been thorough Google Groups, and if your only exposure to the Usenet Newsgroups (with a capital N, yes) has been through that, it can be a little hard to tell the difference between those and a discussion forum. They both have people discussing things, arguing, calling each other idiots and so on. What's the difference? - | |||||
| Have you protected your Internet digital assets for your heirs? | 2011 08 | ||||
| - If you have web pages, a Facebook or Google+ account or you just throw something up on Twitter now and then, you own digital assets. This very page that you are reading is a digital asset. It has value, both because it adds to my reputation as a writer and because it has the potential to create income. - | |||||
| Maybe Android should be strangled? | 2011 08 | 2011/08/15 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I don't like to see Apple controlling too much. This patent set back isn't just about tablet computers; it touches Android cell phones also. If Apple continues to win court cases on this, Android devices - tablets and phones - will either become much more clumsy (perhaps effectively useless) or will become more expensive because of royalties demanded by Apple. This could put people out of business if Apple gets really greedy - | |||||
| Google-plus false iPad app disappoints greatly | 2011 08 | 2011/12/10 anonymous | |||
| - What we got was what we could have had weeks ago - an iPhone app that is allowed to run on the iPad. - | |||||
| Right about now, I'm starting to feel all too familiar Google disenchantment | 2011 08 | ||||
| - Google Wave died because people didn't understand it (amusingly, Google+ really isn't all that far removed from what Wave intended). Google Buzz got derailed by careless privacy issues. Google+ could very well die because of lack of momentum. - | |||||
| An unimportant announcement that you probably won't care about at all | 2011 07 | 2011/07/26 TonyLawrence | |||
| - What I did was move part of this site to a sub-domain. I did so at the specific advice of Matt Cutts, the famous Google SEO guy. No, he didn't give ME the advice - I'm so far beneath unimportant that nobody at Google would even tell me to 'go suck eggs', never mind drop a hint on how to regain traffic after a Panda slap. - | |||||
| The closing of Borders is not the closing of minds | 2011 07 | 2011/07/20 BigDumbDInosaur | |||
| - The container is not the thing contained - physical books are not the knowledge within. Books are really the words within, not the physical paper, cardboard and ink that has been their form for the past half millennia or so. - | |||||
| Another idea about a basic CMS structure | 2011 07 | 2011/07/15 KarlKowallis | |||
| - I have long had a 'dynamic to static' model for this website. That is, most of the pages are actually static but are stitched together from dynamic inputs. - | |||||
| How to waste your time putting a Gmail Group into a Google+ circle | 2011 07 | ||||
| - When I saw Google+ Circles, I thought 'Great - I can have a Computer Club Circle, a Kerio Customer Circle… And I can. So can you. But immediately there was a problem: I already have those groups identified in Gmail Contact lists. You can export Gmail Contact Lists as CSV files. Therefore, you MUST be able to import those to G+, right? - | |||||
| Creative Circles in Google Plus. | 2011 07 | ||||
| - In some respects, Circles beat RSS feeds. Unfortunately, they aren't something you can just 'join' - you have to tell me if you want to be in one of my special circles. Google may allow 'subscribing' to Circles later, but right now you have to ask. However, you can be much more specific than you can be with RSS. You could say 'Please put me in the Circle for Mac OS X posts and anything about Perl, thanks'. That's trivial for me to arrange and after that, you only see what you really want to see. - | |||||
| Google's future in reputations | 2011 07 | 2011/07/07 TonyLawrence | |||
| - For now, a search engine has to grope around in the dark, feeling for indications of quality. Google (and every other search engine) looks at multiple factors. Those factors include both on and off page items and also give weight to the reputation of the site as a whole, the age of the page, what else the searcher was looking for or visiting recently and who knows what else. - | |||||
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| Google+ | 2011 07 | 2011/07/10 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I was fortunate to get an invitation to Google+ and can give you a little feedback on it. - | |||||
| Google Plus One Buttons | 2011 07 | 2011/08/20 videoproduction | |||
| - I've recently added Google Plus One Buttons to pages here. I used to have other buttons - Twitter, Facebook "like" and even some others if we go back far enough. - | |||||
| Google Webmaster Tools | 2011 06 | ||||
| - There is plenty of room for improvement in Google Webmaster Tools. - | |||||
| Moved to Linode.com | 2011 06 | 2011/06/20 Ralph | |||
| - I was very unhappy with my former hosting site. Recently I discovered Linode.com and have transferred this site to their XNE VPS servers. - | |||||
| Getting Started with Amazon Web Services | 2011 04 | 2011/04/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Getting a web site up and running on Amazon Web Services is much easier than it looks. - | |||||
| Snarling Panda site cleanup | 2011 03 | ||||
| - The problem is "low value content". That's tough to define absolutely, but some pages here definitely fall into that category - | |||||
| Smarter HTML Link Extractor | 2011 03 | 2011/07/20 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Checking links is not really hard; you can actually do it with just a few lines of Perl. - | |||||
| Snarling Panda (Google Big Panda update) | 2011 03 | 2011/03/25 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Google 'Big Panda' algorithm change disrupts many web sites, causes bitterness and confusion - | |||||
| Publishing your e-book at Kindle | 2011 03 | 2011/03/04 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Amazon has made it almost trivial to publish your e-book to their Kindle store. - | |||||
| Bing Webmaster Tools | 2011 03 | ||||
| - Microsoft Web Master tools lag behind Google's - | |||||
| Bada-bing - Microsoft busted and Google cleans up the Farms | 2011 02 | 2011/03/02 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Will Google win the search war? Microsoft sure does help! - | |||||
| The Gimp: Making Colors in a GIF Transparent | 2004 01 | ||||
| - Sometimes when working with an image you want to make a certain color transparent. When working with a gif file this would make a round circle look round on any color background. This is actually very simple once you do it once. Finding the information for this took me a while so I thought I would pass it on to anyone that was interested. - | |||||
| Squid Log Analyzer | 2001 02 | ||||
| - Analyzing squid logs Many business owners worry that their employees will fritter It's that monitoring that we are going to look at here. Squid There are hundreds, maybe thousands of Squid log file analyzers - | |||||
| How can I make a Banner Ad? | 2005 01 | 2010/06/28 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Create simple banner ads. You can use any paint or graphics program to create banner ads. Depending upon where you are going to use them, you may need to stick to certain size guidelines. For example, if used here, I prefer that the banner be no more than 468 x 60. You probably do NOT want to use high resolution color, because you want your banner to load quickly - a banner that loads slowly may never be seen or may annoy your potential customer. - | |||||
| label for checkboxes and radio buttons | 2004 07 | ||||
| - you can click on either the text or the checkbox itself - | |||||
| Why does Firefox use Sqlite? | 2008 05 | 2012/03/10 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Why does Firefox use Sqlite database instead of text files? Am I nuts? Am I the only person who can't imagine why Joe Firefox User could possibly have enough bookmarks or browsing history that you need a database to manage the data? - | |||||
| Port Forwarding Verizon? | 2008 02 | 2011/03/01 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Actiontec router not port forwarding - | |||||
| Roku Streaming | 2010 03 | 2010/10/15 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Roku Streaming:: We ordered a Roku box last week. If you don't know what that is, it's a little Internet connected box that lets you stream content to your TV. The funny thing about that is that if you had asked me if I wanted something like this two years ago, or five years ago, or indeed even twenty or forty years back, I would have said 'No". I would have even been mildly amused by the very idea of it because we hardly ever watched movies - so why would we want something that brought movies to our TV? - | |||||
| Solving Google Page Rank problems with a 301 Redirect | 2003 07 | 2010/10/03 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Both domains point to the exact same content. The Apache configuration file at my web server just treated them both as virtual domains having the same filesystem location. There was no difference: no matter what domain name you used, you'd get the same pages. These are just duplicate domains. - | |||||
| Simple XML POST and reply | 2010 03 | 2010/03/24 TonyLawrence | |||
| - A customer has an app that needs to post and get XML data from a website. This task was being handled by .asp scripts on a Windows box, but now they want it moved to Linux and Perl. - | |||||
| Understanding Virtual Domains | 2003 07 | ||||
| - Virtual domains can seem confusing at first, but actual it's pretty simple. Here's the basic idea: you have ONE web server, at ONE IP address, but you host multiple websites, each with different content. - | |||||
| SquidGuard | 2001 09 | ||||
| - squidGuard works with Squid to block access to sites by domain, ip address or even keywords. - | |||||
| Google Affiliate Programs | 2006 06 | 2011/01/03 CindyEyler | |||
| - Will Google dampen eBay's plans? - | |||||
| mod_perl on Debian | 2008 02 | 2010/12/08 Questorian | |||
| - I've ignored mod_perl because I see no point in doing half a job. It could offer many advantages, but I'd need to rewrite many, many scripts to take full advantage. - | |||||
| Simple RSS Feed Generator | 2003 08 | ||||
| - So, you have a web site, and you want to generate an RSS feed. In my case, I have the entire process of adding anything to my site scripted (see The AutoMagic Web Site), and of course generating new RSS documents is just part of that. But you may not have reached that state yet, so here's a little Perl script that will help you along. - | |||||
| Google Maps Beta | 2005 02 | ||||
| - This app is surprisingly fast and has obvious features other map servers lack. The first thing I did was type in Boston, MA which is pretty close to home. Sure enough there was a map, rendered quite quickly too. I didn't see all the street names so I used the slider on the left of the map to zoom in. The map zoomed in very quickly, in fact I was quite surprised with its speed. Using the navigation arrows above the slider I saw that moving the map left, right and up and down were quite speedy as well. - | |||||
| Verizon FIOS | 2006 06 | 2010/07/06 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Verizon FIOS for Internet access - | |||||
| using .htaccess files to redirect pages | 2005 12 | ||||
| - Sometimes I make a mistake in a link I have put in a newsgroup posting or sent by email. Other times I might decide that my file name is bad chosen or potentially confusing. An entry in .htaccess can fix that instantly. Let's say, for example, that I originally created /serv.html but now want to rename it /services.html. If I just renamed it, any external links referencing that file will get 404 errors - File Not Found. I could handle that with a custom 404 page script, but it's easier with .htaccess - | |||||
| iGoogle | 2007 09 | ||||
| - igoogle for rss - | |||||
| PHP Segmentation Fault on Page Loads | 2009 08 | ||||
| - A lot of people have problems with PHP the language, but I've never come into this problem before involving the Apache PHP module. - | |||||
| Using .htaccess files to restrict access | 2005 12 | ||||
| - Every directory in a Apache website can have an optional .htaccess file. This can be used to require passwords to access the files therein or to redirect requests to other pages. Everything you can do in an .htaccess file can also be done in your web server's configuration file, but that can be a little intimidating and confusing for new web masters. The .htaccess is slightly less efficient, but easy to use. - | |||||
| Preventing DDOS attacks | 2006 03 | ||||
| - Managing DDOS attack - | |||||
| Google's Chrome site blocking experiment | 2011 02 | ||||
| - Google Chrome Personal Blocklist extension removes designated sites from google Search results. That's nice, but why? Why a Chrome extension and not just a change to Google Search? - | |||||
| Facebook Poker | 2010 02 | 2011/08/15 bk | |||
| - Playing poker on Facebook can be fun in spite of the Bingo players - | |||||
| Installing APF Firewall for cPanel | 2006 01 | ||||
| - APF Firewall for cPanel - | |||||
| Simple FAQ Creator | 2002 11 | ||||
| - This is a pair of programs to create and maintain a simple FAQ web page. The administrative inteface lets you add questions and answers. - | |||||
| dashes vs. underscores in filenames | 2005 12 | ||||
| - In the old days of the web, file names usually didn't go out of their way to convey information about their contents. - | |||||
| Creating simple web pages | 2005 01 | ||||
| - I really don't understand why, but many people seem to think HTML is much more difficult than it actually is. Amazingly, people who have enthusiastically jumped into learning Perl or Python have told me that HTML is "too hard". - | |||||
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| Converting Print Files to HTML Invoices | 2002 11 | ||||
| - Takes a CSV file and turns it into HTML invoices that are ready to print - | |||||
| Make money by answering questions? Probably not! | 2011 02 | 2011/03/07 TonyLawrence | |||
| - These are sites where people post questions and others post answers. The resulting pages carry Adsense advertising and there is some method of sharing revenue with either those who provide the questions, the answers, or both. - | |||||
| Firefox Javascript Exploit | 2006 10 | ||||
| - Firefox zero day exploit ? - | |||||
| SME Server (E-Smith) Mail Forwarding, Lists, Etc. | 2002 06 | ||||
| - SME Server (E-Smith) Mail Forwarding, Lists, Etc. - | |||||
| Sample Test Question Creation | 2003 01 | ||||
| - This article covers how I create the sample tests. It involves a little bit of html, some Perl, some Applescript, and even making a Mac disk image. - | |||||
| Employee Monitoring | 2003 09 | ||||
| - It is estimated that employee Internet misuse and abuse causes over four billion dollars in lost work productivity. Several surveys reveal that 1 in 5 employees view online pornography at work and that 70% of adult web sites are hit between the hours of 9am-5pm. Not only do employees surf sex sites but they also visit sport sites like espn.com, bid on ebay.com,trade stocks on etrade.com, shop online at avon.com or just send tasteless jokes to their coworkers. This type of misuse not only hurts employee job performance but increases threats to information security and drains valuable network and corporate resources. Corporations can also be held liable for harassment due to sexually or racially discriminatory email sent through corporate Intranets. To prevent such abuses, companies have instituted proper use policies, and have actively written both filters and firewall rules(egress filtering) that block Net access to certain web sites. - | |||||
| Advertising income | 2006 05 | ||||
| - Adsense videos are actually pretty good - | |||||
| Two Safari's | 2003 03 | ||||
| - Two Safari's - | |||||
| Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Website | 2007 11 | ||||
| - Another good intro to Ruby on Rails, review of Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Website by Patrick Lenz - | |||||
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