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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. 
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Migrating from (gs) to (dv) Dedicated Server
2007-09-20 06:00:00 I have outgrown my shared grid-server hosting with mediatemple. Over the next few days, I will be migrating over to a dedicated virtual (dv) base server with the follow specs: 256 MB Dedicated RAM 20 GB Disk Storage 1 TB Network Transfer Plesk 8.2 Control Panel ($30/month value) The cost is $50 a month but with the mediatemple ... More About: Server , Dedicated server , Serve
Pushing the Limits of Programming
2007-09-19 04:35:00 The trend nowadays seems to be packing more and more features into a program (*cough* Vista) without any regard for disk space. Since disk space is so cheap and readily available, you can’t really blame programmers for not optimizing their code and algorithms. However, some people take upon themselves the challenge of ... More About: Programming , Limits , Gram , Push
A Free Rush of Blog Traffic
2007-09-17 22:28:00 The latest craze to hit the blogosphere is a neat little blog widget called Blog Rush. Many sites are starting to implement it which is great news for bloggers everywhere. How it works is you get credit for everytime the widget gets displayed on your blog and using these credits, you can have ... More About: Blog Traffic , Reviews , Traffic , Free
What?s Your IQ?
2007-09-17 04:28:00 The last time I took an official IQ test conducted by a professional was in grade 3. Back then I was tested at 129. It is said that your IQ does not change with age (not by much anyway). Since then, I have taken numerous online IQ tests but almost all ...
Happy Programmer?s Day!
2007-09-14 03:51:00 Today was the 256th day of the year and programmers around the world recognize it as Programme r ’s Day. Next to Pi day (March 14th) and Mole day (Oct. 23), this could very well be the nerdiest day of the year! Unfortunately, it isn’t an officially recognized by many even though it should be since ... More About: Happy , Gram , S Day
The Strangest Baseball Fight I?ve Ever Seen
2007-09-13 05:26:00 Baseball is huge in South Korea. The only countries where baseball is more popular is probably the US and Japan. Now it’s not known as a violent sport but the occasional brawl certainly does break out… but not like this! As it turns out, this wasn’t a real game but a charity fundraiser ... More About: Baseball , Fight , Base , Tran
PHP Tidbit - Incrementing Counters
2007-09-12 05:19:00 There are a few ways to increment (or decrement) a counter in PHP and different situations may call for different ways. Given a variable called $counter, all of the following will increment it by 1. $counter++; //Post-increment ++$counter; //Pre-increment $counter += 1; $counter = $counter + 1; Difference between pre and post increment Although putting ++ before ... More About: Java , Efficiency , Counters , Creme
Does Dofollow Hurt Your Pagerank?
2007-09-11 06:40:00 There are some blogs out there (including mine) that have taken part in the DoFollow movement to encourage comments on the blog. For those of you that don’t know, Dofollow removes the “nofollow” portion of outgoing links in comments. This will allow Google and some other search engines to follow it and ... More About: Pagerank , Hurt , Ager , Gera
Things to Do at Home Without Internet
2007-09-09 06:23:00 Having not have Internet access for the past couple days, I had to find other means to keep myself busy. Now I could have gone outdoors but it has been about 35 degrees celsius (95 F) and quite humid so I had opted to stay indoors. After a couple hours of unsuccessfully searching for ... More About: Home , Things , To Do
Defensio Spam Filter: Follow-up
2007-09-07 22:10:00 This is a follow-up to a previous post where I took a sneak peak at the new Defensio spam filter which is still in beta. After using the filter for exactly 1 month, these are what the final statistics look like: Total number of comments: 8,675 This translates to roughly one comment every 5 minutes. Number ... More About: Spam , Filter
How-to: Automate your SSH Login with PuTTY
2007-09-05 04:27:00 As many web developers can attest to, logging into your server through SSH (Secure Shell) is one of the more common day-to-day tasks (you can even use it as a secure tunnel for your traffic). It only makes sense to automate this process which in turn can save many many keystrokes. This how-to is written ... More About: How-To , Efficiency , Putty , Logi , Tomate
Winner of the World?s Smallest MicroSD Giveaway
2007-09-04 04:34:00 Congratulations to Click Input for winning the World ’s Smallest MicroSD reader! He posted a comment on the contest post and also wrote a post about it on his blog. I’m going to throw in a 64mb MicroSD card as a surprise gift! It’s not huge but it’s enough to store a few files ... More About: The World , Winner
Review My Web Development Blog - Batch 4
2007-09-03 04:55:00 Another week another batch of my Free PR4 Backlink offer! musings - Review Markus Langenfeld - Review Cash For Comments - Review Bisnis-Net - Review Betshopboy - Review The winner of the ?Featured Blog ” this time around is Cash For Comments who likens me to Boba Fett, the bounty hunter from Star Wars. In his humorous review, he compares ... More About: Web Development , Development , Develop
Month in Review - August 2007
2007-09-02 05:05:00 Time for the monthly review of my blog! First, let’s go over last month’s goals and see which ones I’ve accomplished. Goals for August 2007 Increase Alexa ranking into top 47,500 My Alexa ranking peaked at 48,000 but has since dropped back down to 50,500. Looks like this is the level my blog is currently ... More About: Review , August 2007 , Month , Mont
Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
2007-09-01 07:31:00 The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is written by the pragmatic programmers themselves (the same people behind Agile Web Development on Rails). This book is often cited as one of the two “must-haves” for any programmer. The other must-have is Code Complete which I haven’t read yet. This book does not teach ... More About: Reviews , Book Review , Review , Book
$30 Blog Logo and Header Contest
2007-08-31 06:28:00 JonLee.ca has never really had a logo. Since the beginning, it’s been a line of text with the name of the blog. Since I don’t have much talent in the area of graphics design, I have decided to hold a design contest to find a new logo and header image. The Contest The goal of ... More About: Blog , Header , Logo
Efficient Program Launching with Launchy
2007-08-30 06:24:00 This super handy piece of software was recommended to me by two readers, Luke and Carl. In my post about streamlining the start menu, they had both mentioned Launchy as the tool of choice for launching programs effectively and it won the 2007 SourceForge Community Choice Award for best new project. With ... More About: Reviews , Program , Gram , Efficient
Tips on Preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
2007-08-29 05:56:00 Occasionally, I feel tingling and numbness in my hand — two possible early signs of developing carpal tunnel syndrome. This is not good news and I’ve begun to take some measures to prevent further complications. Carpal tunnel syndrome develops slowly over time and is believed to be caused by repetitive tasks such as typing ... More About: Tips , Syndrome , Carpal Tunnel Syndrome , Tunnel , Eventing
What RSS Feeds I Subscribe to
2007-08-28 06:31:00 Reading my RSS subscriptions is a task that I look forward to doing 4 or 5 times a day. I use Google Reader (integrated with Gmail of course). Anyway, I’d like to use this post to list the feeds I subscribe to as well as to give a shoutout to some fellow ... More About: Subscribe , Subs , Scribe
The Effects of a Facebook App After 3 Days
2007-08-27 06:45:00 After just 3 days, the Photogenic Facebook Application I wrote has already gained almost 600 users. Aside from my one post about it, there was no other promotion or marketing on my part so it goes to show how viral Facebook can be. This has led directly to a 20% increase in traffic to ... More About: Days , Effects
Giveaway - World?s Smallest MicroSD Card Reader
2007-08-26 05:52:00 After announcing the winner of the last giveaway contest for the world’s thinnest mouse earlier this month, I had promised that the next giveaway would be a “world’s smallest something”. Well here it is, the world’s smallest USB MicroSD/Transflash reader. After seeing it on Gizmodo, I just had to have one so ... More About: World , Card , Reader
Notes on Creating a Facebook Application
2007-08-25 05:42:00 I got a couple requests on creating a Facebook Application tutorial after announcing Photogenic, my first Facebook Application. However, this seems fairly redundant as Facebook themselves have already created a great step-by-step on creating a basic application. Any tutorial I write would just be replicating it. Instead, I’d like to mention a few ... More About: Personal , Creating , Notes
My First Facebook Application
2007-08-24 06:20:00 Facebook applications are hot right now. In fact, application short-names are going fast like domain names. You might be hard pressed to find a decent application name with the word “friend” in it! I started tinkering with their Developers API yesterday and I whipped up my first Facebook application. It doesn’t do ... More About: Facebook , Application
How-to: Use Wildcard Subdomains
2007-08-23 06:40:00 Most websites and blogs have URIs that look like http://www.jonlee.ca/my-blog-post/. Of course, my-blog-post/ is not an actual folder on the site, but rather an Apache mod_rewrite that redirects to a post by the same name. A neat thing you can also do with mod_rewrite (and some DNS editing) is to use wildcard or catch-all ... More About: Web Development , How-To , Wildcard , Mains
Pet Peeve - Common Names for Search Fields
2007-08-22 05:47:00 Here’s a rather strange pet peeve of mine: Search input fields that use common names. Allow me to explain. When creating a form input field such as the search box, the <input> tag needs to have a name attribute so that the data can be passed via POST or GET. For example, the declaration for ... More About: Personal , Common , Fields , Names
How-to: Portable Rails Development on a USB Drive
2007-08-21 06:14:00 As a follow up to a previous article about Portable Web Development on a USB Drive , here are a couple programs you can include to make it Ruby on Rails compatible. InstantRails In the original article, I recommended XAMPP Lite as a portable Apache, PHP, MySQL server that doesn’t require installation. You can add a ... More About: How-To
Review My Web Development Blog - Batch 3
2007-08-20 05:43:00 Only about a week after the second batch of my Free PR4 Backlink offer, the third batch is now complete! Kirbitz - Review Things That Are Fun - Review Ramblifications - Review RevieWOW - Review Jatecblog - Review The winner of the “Featured Link” this week is Jatecblog whose wasn’t afraid to be critical in his review. It’s always ... More About: Web Development , Development , Blog , Develop
Pay-As-You-Go Web Hosting
2007-08-18 06:18:00 I get e-mails and questions all the time from people wondering where they should host their blog. Let’s face it, as much as I recommend mediatemple as an excellent web host, it’s just not for everyone. Not everyone is willing to shell out $15 a month for a web host when they ... More About: Reviews , Hosting , Web Development , Web Hosting , Free
Make Your Blog a Favorit
2007-08-17 05:59:00 New startup Fav.or.it is launching a private beta soon and they are looking for content from blogs. They will accept the first 10,000 blogs submitted to them. What is Fav.or.it? Basically, Fav.or.it is a feed aggregator — it will dig through its thousands of feeds and give you articles that match your preferences. You ... More About: Blog , Make , Favor
Monetize that Dormant Site - Follow Up
More articles from this author:2007-08-16 05:02:00 Last week I mentioned a banner publisher program that pays you a flat rate of $10 a month to put a banner on any 3 pages of your site. Well it seems as if that company has been going through a rebranding spree. Bucks4Banners has apparently been sold and the old owners are moving ... More About: Reviews , Money , Network , Site 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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