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When Bad News Follows You: SEO Redux?

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 at it from the aspect of accountable reporting, no? Nicholas... Read more »

Simple Function Testing and Debugging in PHP

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 concept as I have implemented it. This exact implementation... Read more »

MySQL Optimization - A Little Tip

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 queries performing well. Optimize Queries with EXPLAIN Explain... Read more »

CSS, Image Sprites, Background Images and Website Optimization

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 idea of placing multiple states of buttons and other elements... Read more »

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

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. But hours later, he called me stating that he felt really... Read more »

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