Category Archives: Internet

5 things you may not know about PHP

PHP is one of the dominant web languages in use today. If you do any web design work you probably have at least a passing knowledge of PHP. Heck, even if you don’t do any web design you’ve probably noticed … Continue reading

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Goggles Flight Sim

In what may be the coolest, albeit not quite as useful as others, use of Google Maps data yet Mark Caswell-Daniels has created a flight simulator where you can fly around several cities using satellite imagery from Google. With a … Continue reading

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Aliens prefer Firefox

Ok, not really. But members of the Oregon State University Linux Users Group made a 260 foot crop circle of the Firefox logo.

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robots.txt for SimpleMachines forum

Wanting to keep pages out of the SERPS that I felt shouldn’t be there I started using the following robots.txt file on a SimpleMachines forum site of mine.

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SEO company sending me spam

You know, I’ve pretty well accepted that I’m going to have email spam get through to my inbox. Even with Thunderbird’s spam filtering, it still gets through. But today I got a spam message from an SEO company called The … Continue reading

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Blocking AdSense ads on your own site

One of the fears of AdSense users is that they will accidentally click on an ad on their own site and get banned by Google. I’ve always assumed that these fears are a little over-hyped. I just can’t see one … Continue reading

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GoDaddy and disabled PHP functions

During a support issue with a user of one of my web applications I made a fairly important discovery about GoDaddy.com and how they have PHP installed on their servers. Many functions – 44 last time I looked – are … Continue reading

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eBay offering search results as RSS

Monday eBay announced that you can now get search results via RSS. This will allow you to keep track of what you’re interested in without actually having to search – the results will be delivered to your aggregator. Sadly, this … Continue reading

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PayPal returning with ?=Return+To+Merchant

Just a quick post since I had a really tough time finding an answer to a problem I was having. I’m working on an open source eCommerce site where photographers can upload image galleries and have their clients view (and … Continue reading

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Wanna buy A.com?

You may be able to, although you’ll certainly have to shell out some money.

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