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When Bad News Follows You: SEO Redux?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

I came across the article from Nicholas Carr's post Should the Net forget? This is an interesting consequence that seems to be getting pushed on SEO, rather then perhaps looking... Read more

Simple Function Testing and Debugging in PHP

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Firing a function from your browser The concept is as simple as firing a function from your browser, and it leans on PHP's call_user_func_array. I'm going to outline the... Read more

MySQL Optimization - A Little Tip

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Some simple suggestions Well I don't consider myself an expert, I do have experience with working with larger datasets and there are a couple of things that I always do to keep... Read more

CSS, Image Sprites, Background Images and Website Optimization

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

This post was originally published on May 13th, 2004. As others are writing about the topic, I thought bringing it out of the archives would be worthwhile. A little recap The... Read more

The human side of marketing, or, Capitalizing on your mistakes

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The mistake I called him up to mention the error, and he explained to me that he had noticed the error and managed to stop the delivery before too much damage was done. No problem.... Read more

Common Sense, or Don't take my International Order and then not Provide an International Support Phone Number

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dear Company-from-another-country-that-was-happy-to-take-my-money -but-too-shortsighted-to-have-an-international-support-number, While I think it's great that you have a... Read more

The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS - Compressing CSS

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Note: This post was originally published on June 13th, 2004. It is being republished today because: the topic has been discussed in a few places recently, and, well, I accidentally... Read more

PHP Frameworks and A Very Nice Application Flow Chart

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The Flow Chart CodeIgniter looks to be an interesting framework from the people behind Expression Engine. My interest was peaked when looking through their expansive documentation... Read more