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Knocked off the internet, a story of Windows and Macintosh

March 15th, 2005

This weekend the internal modem in my Mac died. Living in a rural area, I am a dialup user. Let me say that getting unexpectedly disconnected from the internet is very traumatic.
I’ve been following an iterative development cycle where I deploy to my client’s site every Friday. (My old ERP colleagues would [...]

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rsync to remote server via ssh

March 1st, 2005

If you ever need to repeatedly upload to a remote server, here is the command line of the day:

rsync -zrptL –delete-after -e "ssh" –include=core –include=tags –exclude=.DS_Store –cvs-exclude /local/dir user@host:/remote/dir/

rsync sends only the files that have changed. I just tried rsync today for the first time and I’m impressed. Its far faster than [...]

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nofollow and comment spam

January 19th, 2005

The rel nofollow thing is getting blogged to death today, but here are my two cents.
This won’t stop comment spam any more than spam filters stop email spam. The economics are still on the spammers side. This may have devalued the pot of gold to a pot of silver, but there will still [...]

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Mac Mini and PHP

January 11th, 2005

I read various live blogs during the Mac World event today. It was interesting to see servers melt and the strategies people used to cope. A busy day in the Apple universe.
I just want to point out that the Mac mini comes with Apache and PHP pre-installed.
If you want, compiling a [...]

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Google Hosting

September 27th, 2004

I don’t see google paid hosting as a good move for google.

Web hosting is a (still) highly fragmented marketplace.

Web hosting is fragmented market because it is a commodity product and there are low barriers to entry. I don’t see google overcoming either of these issues. They built their search brand based on having [...]

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Blog Advertising

September 22nd, 2004

I ran across BlogAds in this article:

Henry Copeland, owner of blogAds.com, said some of the bloggers he represents make $120,000 (U.S.) a year from ads — though he won’t say how many — and that “dozens” make $1,000 a month

So it seems like there is a couple of bucks to be made on advertising [...]

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Web Page Loading Performance

May 17th, 2004

Dave Hyatt provides a glimpse into factors influencing web page load times for safari and the mozilla based browsers. This is something that I think every web page designer and developer should be aware of.
There is a tendency in web development to focus on the amount of time it takes for the web server [...]

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Even the Big Guys Get Validation Wrong

May 13th, 2004

I ordered a computer for someone from Dell last night. When I got to the end of the order, I mistyped a digit on the credit card number and the form was redisplayed with an “invalid credit card number” error. I added spaces between the digits (as they appear on the card) to [...]

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Sometimes Plain Text is Best

May 4th, 2004

Boing Boing featured a drop down from hell last week. Is a mega enumeration like this really necessary? Why not use a simple text field?
I find drop down boxes with years to be one of the saddest examples of enumeration overkill. I can type my birth date far faster than [...]

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Decline of Google

May 3rd, 2004

I had an interesting conversation with my aunt this weekend. She is a genealogy buff who works at the University of Michigan law library. She complained about how she has found that Google’s search results are declining in quality. Specifically, she complained about the sites that were spamming google with randomly generated [...]

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