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See Who?s Sharing your Shared Hosting
2007-07-17 06:24:00
Many websites on the internet are hosted on some type of shared hosting. Shared hosting means your site is hosted on a server alongside other sites, in essence, you’re sharing the same server. Do you know who you’re sharing your hosting with? Why does it matter? On a shared hosting server, your resources are ...
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Am I Psychic or What
2007-07-16 05:12:00
Just yesterday, I said I had a feeling I would win Gary Lee’s iPhone giveaway since I only ever win useless things. Well as luck would have it, less than an hour after I made that post, I find out that I won the world’s thinnest mouse from John Chow, the G4 Slim ...
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When Will iPhone be Available in Canada?
2007-07-15 04:15:00
The iPhone is estimated to be available in Canada in late 2007 to early 2008 and will only be available in a GSM version (from Rogers Wireless). This means CDMA Bell and Telus users won’t have access to it. And judging by what has happened in the past with Canadian phone releases, Canadians ...
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10 Tips for Prolonged Computer Usage
2007-07-14 06:05:00
We’ve all had to pull that all-nighter either to cram for an exam, finish a project or just because you had a brilliant idea you didn’t want to let go of. Whether you are writing, programming or just surfing, prolonged use of the computer is not healthy especially if in a dimly lit ...
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Review: Agile Web Development with Rails
2007-07-13 05:54:00
When I first decided to learn Ruby on Rails, I came across two book recommendations on the official Ruby on Rails site. The first book is an introduction to web development with Rails, called Agile Web Development with Rails. The second is called Rails Recipes which includes many tutorials on using Rails ...
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Motivating Commercials to Learn Another Language
2007-07-12 03:30:00
When I mentioned that I speak quite a few languages (not all fluently though), I got some pretty positive reactions! If you’re looking for a good reason to learn another language, here are some motivating commercials that might inspire you: That last one is my favorite one, when I saw it on TV, ...
More About: Entertainment , Language , Commercials , Learn , Comm

Efficient Akismet Spam Moderation
2007-07-11 03:51:00
Two weeks ago, I talked about ways to prevent comment spam on your blog. Most of them required installing some sort of plug-in or tinkering. Near the bottom of that post I briefly mentioned a Greasemonkey script that can make your weekly task of moderating spam comments much more efficient. The script is ...
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How to Watch Movies and Videos on Your Windows Mobile Smartphone
2007-07-10 04:36:00
With all the iPhone news lately, it could be easy to forget that the vast majority of Smartphones and Pocket PCs on the market right now are running Windows Mobile . I personally have a one-year old i-mate SP5 (HTC Tornado) that runs Windows Mobile 5. One of my favorite things to do on it ...
More About: Videos , Movies , Watch

Google Twin Quest Update
2007-07-09 04:53:00
If you’ve been following my blog for a while or have noticed my Googl e Twin Quest tracker in the sidebar, you’ll know that I’ve been on a quest to defeat my Google Twins since March. For those that don’t know, your Google twin is a person (or persons) that come up when you ...
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Review My Web Development Blog - Batch 1
2007-07-08 05:55:00
It took 4 months but I accumulated my first batch of reviews! Nice4Rice - Review (still accepting rice) BlissLogs - Review Tax Back - Review Cherry Fashion - Review Enkay Blog - Review The winner for the best review this batch is definitely Jason Spence from BlissLogs. His review was not only comprehensive but he taught me all about ...
More About: Web Development , Development , Develop

8 Fun Facts About Jon Lee
2007-07-07 05:42:00
I got tagged by Samanathon, Nathan Drach and Ms Danielle to list 8 fun facts about me so here goes. I don’t consider myself a boring person but I had difficulty coming up with all eight! This is how it works: Each player must post these rules to begin the meme. Each players starts with eight ...
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Would You Turn Down $10,000?
2007-07-06 02:59:00
Ever since I started this blog, I’ve been getting offers from people and businesses to help with design and development. Since web development isn’t my full-time job but rather something I enjoy doing in my spare time, I’ve been turning down these offers. I was not ready to drop everything else in ...
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Game Break: Best Defend Your Castle Games
2007-07-05 05:50:00
Defend your Castle , Defend your Base, Defend your House, Defense Game s etc. These would be my second most favorite genre of flash games next to Tower Defense games. Although this genre is similar to Tower Defense in that you try to eliminate enemies as they rush towards their objective, the difference is that it is ...
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Google Offering Feedburner PRO for Free
2007-07-04 03:30:00
Ever since Google announced that they bought Feedburner , I kind of had a feeling this would happen. Feedburner PRO features are now free for all Feedburner users. This is just like when Google bought Urchin stats two years ago and made the $500/month service free (Google Analytics ).With this move Google now owns the ...
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Wordpress Blog Hacked!
2007-07-03 04:07:00
I’m sure some of you noticed this earlier but my blog was hacked. I’m not sure how, but I’m working with (mt) to get to the bottom of it. I’ve restored it to the latest backup point I have handy since I don’t have access to the most up-to-date backup at the ...
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Month in Review - June 2007
2007-07-02 05:04:00
Let?s keep this one short and sweet because it?s my girlfriend?s birthday today and I don?t have too much time to spend on this! Last month?s goals: Increase Alexa ranking into top 70,000 64,336 ? woohoo! Increase RSS readership above 250 222 ? but it?s been over 250 a few days? Increase Technorati ranking into the top 6,000. 3,077 ? ...
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Prevent Comment Spam
2007-07-02 05:00:00
Any Wordpress blogger can tell you what a pain it is to go through their Akismet Spam filter to identify any false-positives (real comments that get identifed as spam). In a week, I used to get about 500 comments that gets caught by Akismet which isn?t a lot compared to some more popular blogs. ...
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PHP Tidbit: Efficient Loops
2007-07-01 04:59:00
Loops can save a lot of redundancy in your code by performing a particular task over and over again. However, to keep the loop as efficient as possible, here are some tips to follow. Note that these tips apply to many programming languages, not just PHP but examples are given in PHP code. 1) Avoid ...
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Regarding Google?s Supplemental Index
2007-06-30 04:57:00
Google?s Supplemental Index is a topic of constant debate amongst SEO (search engine optimization) fanatics. A month ago, I had over 500 pages in the supplemental index. Since performing a couple of little fixes, I am proud to say I?m now down to 5 pages in the index! If you?ve never heard of Google?s ...
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Regarding Google’s Supplemental Index
2007-06-29 07:12:00
Google’s Supplemental Index is a topic of constant debate amongst SEO (search engine optimization) fanatics. A month ago, I had over 500 pages in the supplemental index. Since performing a couple of little fixes, I am proud to say I’m now down to 5 pages in the index! If you’ve never heard of Google’s Supplemental Index, here’s a short little intro. If you have, I’d like to hear your views on it. What is Google’s Supplemental Index? A lot of people view Google’s supplemental as the place your pages goes to when Google believes it is duplicate content, untrusted or just plain useless. Why is the Supplemental Index Important? Whether or not your page is in the supplemental index can mean the difference being on the first page of Google or the 30th page for a particular search term. How do I check how many of my pages are in the Supplemental Index? You can preform a simple Google search as follows, replacing my domain with yours of cours...
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Review: mediatemple?s MySQL Containers
2007-06-29 04:53:00
Here?s yet another mediatemple post ? they just keep on rolling out the goods, it?s hard not to love them! This time I?ll be reviewing their MySQL Containers which were released during their last Grid system update four months ago but I?ve only had access to them now. What is a MySQL Container? If you?re thinking of ...
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Review: mediatemple’s MySQL Containers
2007-06-28 06:05:00
Here’s yet another mediatemple post — they just keep on rolling out the goods, it’s hard not to love them! This time I’ll be reviewing their MySQL Containers which were released during their last Grid system update four months ago but I’ve only had access to them now. What is a MySQL Container? If you’re thinking of running a large social network or a lot of sites that will perform a lot of database queries (*cough* Wordpress), then performance would be greatly improved by having a machine dedicated to managing a database. A MySQL GridContainer is just that. It gives you isolated RAM and CPU for your own databases. These resources are not shared with anyone else and is therefore protected from other users and their applications. After all, you don’t want your site knocked offline because someone else on your shared hosting crashed your shared database! Extra Features MySQL Containers aren’t just a fancy name for a dedicated databa...
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Review: Backup Data Online with Mozy
2007-06-28 04:44:00
Yesterday, I mentioned Mozy as the program that I use to do backup data online. I?ve used several different online backup services in the last couple years and I?ve been using Mozy for over a year now so I feel I can write a decent review of it.What is Mozy Mozy is an automatic remote ...
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Review: Backup Data Online with Mozy
2007-06-27 06:04:00
Yesterday, I mentioned Mozy as the program that I use to do backup data online. I’ve used several different online backup services in the last couple years and I’ve been using Mozy for over a year now so I feel I can write a decent review of it. What is Mozy Mozy is an automatic remote backup service for Windows and Macs (sorry, no Linux support yet but if you’re using Linux I’m sure you’d much rather use rsync anyway). You schedule Mozy to do backups of whatever data you select and it will perform incremental backups (meaning only changes are updated) so backups are fast and you can easily rollback to any prior backup — sort of like Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature. Backup s are encrypted on your computer with a strong 448-bit Blowfish encryption and are then sent to Mozy’s servers through an 128-bit encrypted SSL connection. Your data is fully secure and if you wish, you can specify your own encryption key so even Mozy can’t h...
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Backup Data Online the Smart Way
2007-06-27 04:43:00
In web development, there is nothing worse than having created a website and losing it to a hard drive crash. Luckily, I?ve yet to have a hard drive crash on me but I?ve heard horror stories from countless people. The need to back up your data is very real and but can be a ...
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Backup Data Online the Smart Way
2007-06-26 06:42:00
In web development, there is nothing worse than having created a website and losing it to a hard drive crash. Luckily, I’ve yet to have a hard drive crash on me but I’ve heard horror stories from countless people. The need to back up your data is very real and but can ...
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What is Quantcast? No Toolbar Required!
2007-06-26 04:39:00
Quantcast is self-described as an ?Open Internet Rating Service?. Essentially, it is another way to measure the popularity of your site. Much like Alexa , it can be used to give your site a ?ranking? compared to all the other sites on the Internet. Unlike Alexa however, it does not rely on a toolbar ...
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What is Quantcast? No Toolbar Required!
2007-06-25 05:54:00
Quantcast is self-described as an “Open Internet Rating Service”. Essentially, it is another way to measure the popularity of your site. Much like Alexa , it can be used to give your site a “ranking” compared to all the other sites on the Internet. Unlike Alexa however, it does not rely on ...
More About: Web Development , Toolbar

Bloglines - Makes for an Easier Experience
2007-06-25 04:37:00
Darin Carter contacted me about this list he started and I think it?s a great idea. Like the technorati favorites train, this is a very good way to earn some linkbacks, discover new blogs, as well as increasing your RSS count. I copied this list from Gary Lee who has added a ...
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Bloglines - Makes for an Easier Experience
2007-06-24 06:49:00
Darin Carter contacted me about this list he started and I think it’s a great idea. Like the technorati favorites train, this is a very good way to earn some linkbacks, discover new blogs, as well as increasing your RSS count. I copied this list from Gary Lee who has added a ...
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