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 Search Doctors and it just hit the wrong nerve.
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 accidental click causing you to get dropped. Of course you certainly don’t want to make a habit out of “accidental” clicks.
But there is another reason to not have AdSense ads shown to you on your own sites. By having them visible you can really skew your stats. So what can you do?
One of the functions added in PHP 5 is file_get_contents. This function allows you to just pass a file name and it will return the entire contents of the file. That’s all well and good if you’re using PHP5, but PHP4 is still very common.
Akismet recently passed the 100,000,000 mark on spam messages blocked. Based on the assumption that you spend 1 second per spam message that hits your…
I’ve started working on a new blog called DailyFont.com. The intent is to have a new font posted every day (future dated posts are great…
I’ve been working on an application for the past several months and it’s now at a point where I feel comfortable releasing it. ProofBuddy is…
It happens about once a year. I get this urge to redesign one of my sites. And this one with its wavy lines just seemed…
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 disabled. Now, this may just be with their economy package and they have them enabled on their higher packages as an incentive to upgrade, but it caught me off guard.
Pretty much bookmarking this for myself http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
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…