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Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Importance Of The Robots NoIndex Meta Tag, Or: What’s The Opposite of SEO?

I'm not much into SEO (search engine optimization).  It's a booming industry for some, but I still have this crazily naive idea that good content will just naturally rise to the top of search results.  That said, there are a some basic SEO guidelines that I try to follow on my site.  When I recently discovered my site was disappearing from Google results, I learned a very important SEO lesson.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

My URL Shortening Service

As part of my continuing effort to take over the world, I’ve created my own personal url-shortening service: http://uvurl.net.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Eclipse and PDT for PHP Development

I started looking for a PHP IDE again to replace the venerable TextPad.  Last year I looked at NuSphere’s PhpEd, which was actually not bad but I couldn’t bring myself to spend $100+ on it just to get a little Intellisense.  Now I’m looking at Eclipse with PHP Development Tools (PDT), which is free and open source.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Comment Model

Just so there’s a record of it, here’s how I’m planning to implement comments in the new blog platform.  It’s geared toward a small community size.

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Development Software I Use Now

I’ve setup a new development PC, so I thought it was time once again to review the software I normally install and use for development (I last did this in December 2007).

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Recent Aggravator Updates

In case anyone uses it, there's been some minor changes to the Aggravator lately.

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Friday, December 26, 2008

New Blog Platform for 2009

As I've hinted, I decided to rewrite my PHP blog platform again.  I've been working too hard to shoehorn features I want into the old code, so it's time for a re-imagining.  Besides, it's just fun to write new code.

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

NuSphere PhpEd

I'm trying out NuSphere's PhpEd. For lo these many years, my PHP IDE has been a text editor and a web browser. Yep, that's it. But now I think I need some Intellisense.

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Monday, November 7, 2005

Why I Like PHP

Most programmers at my level of genius and experience scoff at the PHP language for web development. So why do I use it on my web page?

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