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jon lee dot see ehjon lee dot see ehA fun web development blog documenting my life and experiences as a web developer, web development with a touch of humor. Lots of web development tips, efficiency tips and products reviews. Articles
Find Pagerank for Internal Pages of your Site
2007-10-29 05:31:00 Knowing the Google PageRanks of internal pages can be very important. Advertisers want to know what kind of PR backlinks they’ll be getting from you and it can also give you a quick overview as to what your most popular pages are. Save Your Time Instead of going through all 5,000 indexed pages of my site ... More About: Pagerank , Site , Find , Internal , Pages
A Welcome Pagerank Update
2007-10-28 05:38:00 The talk around the Internet right now is the Google PageRank update has finally come albeit 2 months late. It had caused webmasters (at least those that cared anyway) a lot anxiety with rumors that Google might be dropping PageRank altogether. PR5! In the previous update, I gained a solid PR 4 as a starting point. ... More About: Pagerank , Update , Ager , Gera
Stupid: Amazon Tries to Patent mod_rewrite
2007-10-27 04:35:00 A few days ago, Amazon applied for a patent for “Search engine system supporting inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of URL“. This means a search engine that will allow users to enter a query as part of the URL and it will perform a search on that query. For example, to ... More About: Stupid , Patent , Tent , Trie
ShoppingAds - A New CPC Program by Text-Link-Ads
2007-10-24 01:21:00 I got an e-mail from Text Link Ads regarding a new CPC program that just went into beta testing called Shopping Ads. A Different Pay Structure This program is similar to Auction Ads and Amazon Associates in that it displays ads for products for sale online. The difference is how they pay you. Both AuctionAds and Amazon ... More About: Program , Text Link Ads
7 Tips for Efficient Sleeping - Quality Over Quantity
2007-10-23 06:31:00 Sleeping can be made efficient too? That’s right — getting 10 hours of sleep is useless if it isn’t good sleep! I’m sure you’ve spent entire nights tossing and turning without actually falling asleep and waking up feeling just as exhausted as the night before. This happens to everyone but there are several ... More About: Sleeping , Tips , Offtopic , Efficiency , Quality
A Bargain Hunter?s Dream - Lastminute-Auction
2007-10-22 05:54:00 I think many of you will agree that receiving a package in the mail is one of the best feelings in the world. The only thing that can make it better is knowing you bought the package at a great deal. This is what Lastminute-Auction is all about — finding great bargains online! The ... More About: Reviews , Hunter , Bargain , Dream
Advertise on JonLee.ca!
2007-10-21 06:06:00 While I was redesigning my blog, one thing I had kept in mind was to leave room for advertising options, in particular, the 125×125 buttons that seem to be so popular amongst advertisers these days. Dropping Google Adsense Google Adsense has made me a decent amount of money on my other sites but it doesn’t seem to ... More About: Advertise , Vert
Efficiency: Finding the Perfect Domain Name
2007-10-20 05:11:00 A decent .com domain name is very hard to come by. Whenever I need to create a new site, there are several services I use to find my perfect domain name. AjaxWhois AjaxWhois makes use of AJAX to look-up domain name availability without the need for a page refresh. If you have a bunch ... More About: Domain , Domain Name , Perfect , Efficiency
I Live in the Most Intelligent City in the World!
2007-10-19 06:34:00 Waterloo, Canada was named 2007’s the most intelligent community in the world. That’s quite an accomplishment considering the relatively small population of the city as well the 400 other cities that were in contention for the award. Here are some reasons why the city is so intelligent: It’s Canada’s Technological Hub The city has barely 100,000 ... More About: World , Intelligent , Live , City , The World
TheAdNetwork - Money just keeps on coming in!
2007-10-17 04:02:00 A couple months ago I discussed a way of monetizing dormant sites using an ad network called Bucks4Banners that allows you to put their banners on any 3 pages of your site for a flat-rate payout of $10 a month. The ad network looked very seedy at first with an improperly formatted website and ... More About: Reviews , Money , Network , Thea
Clockwise or Counter-clockwise? - A Crazy Illusion!
2007-10-16 05:32:00 Is the dancer in the picture spinning clockwise or counter clockwise? As it turns out, those that see the dancer spin counter clockwise are typically “left-brained” while those that see the dancer spin clockwise are typically “right-brained”. If you try to focus really hard, you can see the dancer spin the other way. When ... More About: Crazy , Illusion , Counter
Comments Broken
2007-10-15 13:59:00 I know comments are currently broken, I’m working on a fix! Stay tuned! Update: Fixed! I had forgotten to define the Custom Comments Target variable in Brian’s Threaded Comments… duh! If you tried to make a comment and it didn’t work, please leave the comment again! More About: Broken
Speed Up Your Connection with a Better DNS
2007-10-15 05:39:00 Part of the backbone structure of the Internet is the DNS, the Domain Name System. It translates hostnames to IP addresses so you can type in www.google.com instead of 64.233.167.99. However, since there isn’t just one centralized DNS server, DNS servers are not updated in real-time. When a new domain is created ... More About: Connection , Open , Speed , Efficiency , Speed up
New Site, New Server, New Look
2007-10-14 06:34:00 If you’re reading this post then that means you’re seeing the new jonlee.ca site on the new dedicated-virtual server. Over the past few weeks I’ve slowly moved all my sites over to the new server with this blog being the last one. I’ve also updated the design of the site to give it a wider ... More About: Site , Server , New Site , New Look , Serve
Study Tip: Don?t Drink Cold Water, it Lowers your IQ
2007-10-12 05:41:00 I saw this in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine ( Ispent the last hour trying to find an online link to no avail). Researchers at the University of Bristol in England found that drinking ice-cold water can temporarily lower your brain power by as much as 15% (about 10 ... More About: Drink , Study , Cold , Water
Securely Including Files - include, require etc.
2007-10-10 05:03:00 When creating large applications or web sites, it is often useful to abstract it to different classes or even to just compartmentalize your code. For example, create a single file containing all your database functions and simply include it with files that need to use it. What is an Include File Let’s say your entire ... More About: Files
Showoff Rankings Problems
2007-10-09 06:54:00 For those of you using my Showoff Rankings widget you may have noticed that Alexa traffic rankings don’t show up. I’m well aware of this and I have been working on a fix. This is due to Alexa rejecting my XML requests, I can only guess that Amazon (who owns Alexa) is requiring people ... More About: Personal , Problems
Lower that Firefox Memory Usage
2007-10-08 06:34:00 Needless to say, Firefox is a wonderful tool. It is the one program that I have open almost all of the time while I’m on my computer. However, it is a huge memory hog! I tend to open a whole bunch of tabs at once so everything can load in the ... More About: Memory , Lower , Usage
How-to: Create Various Redirects
2007-10-05 04:07:00 There are many reasons for redirecting a user to another page. Perhaps the page has moved or perhaps they are trying to access a page they shouldn’t have access to. Or maybe you want to put in an interstitial ad (those full page ads displayed before taking you to the actual page ... More About: Web Development , How-To , Create , Vario , Dire
Month in Review - September 2007
2007-10-04 06:15:00 The month of September was fairly disappointing since I met just one my goals. Let’s take a look at the goals I set for myself Goals for Next Mont h Increase Alexa ranking into top 47,500 Alexa ranking dropped from 50,000 to over 54,000 at a very slow pace. It looks like I’m leveling off. Increase RSS ... More About: Review , September 2007
A Rare Mistake by Apple
2007-10-03 05:17:00 I think Apple is really shooting itself in the foot recently. With the release of their new firmware, all unlocked phones have been “bricked” (that is, rendered nonfunctional so it serves as a brick or a paperweight). Not only that, but any iPhone that has installed ANY 3rd party software has been ... More About: Offtopic , Rare , Mista
Speed Up Your Site - Auto File Compression
2007-10-01 03:04:00 If speeding up Google Analytics doesn’t give you enough of a performance boost in terms of page load time, then maybe this will be of interest to you. Page load time is directly proportional to the size of files and objects being retrieved. By compressing files before they are sent across to ... More About: Compression , Java , File , File Compression , Auto
I Won an Xbox 360!
2007-09-29 08:02:00 Earlier this week I bought a bag of Doritos and it came with a PIN to enter the Pepsi Game on with Sidney Crosby contest. A prize is given away every hour so I went online, entered my PIN and … I won an Xbox 360 Core system! This is officially the biggest thing ... More About: Entertainment , Xbox 360
Speed Up Google Analytics - Host it Locally
2007-09-28 04:10:00 What’s worse than having to wait 10 seconds for a page to load completely? Waiting 11 seconds. Sometimes when a site using Google Analytics loads, you might notice that the status bar says something like: Transferring data from http://www.google-analytics.com… What it is doing is fetching urchin.js from the Google servers. Although Google has fast ... More About: Google Analytics , Host , Speed
Wordpress 2.3 Incompatibilities
2007-09-27 05:58:00 After upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 (using the wonderful one-click instant upgrade plug-in), there were some incompatibilities with certain plug-ins. In this latest update of Wordpress, there were some significant changes to the database structure. Tables were reorganized and broke some plug-ins. In particular, the post2cat table is now gone so any plug-ins that ...
How Does Google Store All of its Data?
2007-09-26 05:57:00 Ever wonder how Googl e manages all their information? Imagine Gmail, it has to keep track of the billions of emails that get sent out each day regardless of whether or not it is spam. My friend asked me this question and I thought about it for a while and did a ... More About: Yahoo , Data , Store
Switching from Rails back to PHP?
2007-09-25 05:25:00 This post is a response to Derek Siver’s post on the O’Reilly blog. Over two years ago, he decided to ditch a hundred thousand lines of messy PHP code in favor of rewriting his whole site with Ruby on Rails . Two years later, he isn’t even half done and has decided to ... More About: Web Development , Back , Switching
Solving Mathematic?s Greatest Mystery
2007-09-24 06:11:00 This British documentary about Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of my favorite documentaries. I remember back in high school, after hearing about the theorem, I had spent an entire night trying to solve it. Of course, with my grade 10 mathematical knowledge, I could not do it. If you have a spare ... More About: Entertainment , Mystery , Myst , Greatest
Creating the Ultimate Spam Comment
2007-09-23 04:05:00 Everytime I take a look at the comments in my Defensio quarantine, I see tons of spam comments that are so blatantly spam that I’m not sure how they accomplish anything (on blogs with spam filters anyway). More recently, some spam comments are beginning to appear that force me to think twice before ... More About: Spam , Creating , Comment , Ultimate
Dedicated Virtual (dv) vs Dedicated Hosting
More articles from this author:2007-09-21 05:37:00 I got an e-mail asking me to explain what the difference between mediatemple’s dedicated virtual (dv) hosting and true dedicated hosting is. The end result is similar — fast hosting with dedicated resources but what’s behind the scenes is very different. The Main Difference With true dedicated hosting, you have your sites hosted on your ... More About: Hosting , Virtual , Dedicated 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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