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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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jonlee.ca Banned from digg!
2007-06-23 04:34:00 Yup it’s true! I’ve officially been banned from digg.com. I don’t know how it happened but yesterday when I tried to login to digg an article, I get a nice little “Account Disabled” message. Since I’m sure most of you haven’t seen it, this is what it looks like when you’re ... More About: Digg , Anne , Banned
Game Break: Best Tower Defense Games
2007-06-22 06:06:00 Back in high school, I used to play a lot of Starcraft, which is why I’m fairly excited for the upcoming Starcraft 2 game. In Starcraft, there was a popular type of game called “Turret Defense ” which involved building turrets (or other structures) in order to stop a horde of enemies from invading ... More About: Entertainment , Games , Break , Game
Design and Development - What?s it Worth?
2007-06-21 06:00:00 I saw a couple articles lately discussing the London 2012 Olympics and how poorly managed it is. They spent the equivalent of about $800,000 on designing just the logo. Upon the unveiling, it was met with much disappointment. I mean for a million dollars, I’d expect a logo to completely sweep ... More About: Design , Development , Worth , Develop , Wort
Biggest Productivity Booster: Dual Monitors
2007-06-19 21:50:00 Research shows that the biggest boost to office productivity is a second monitor. The extra screen estate lets you have 3 or more monitors open side by side. So why not enter to win a free 24″ widescreen LCD? John Chow in partnership with Bluefur who is hosting Canada, is offering a contest to ... More About: Productivity , Monitors , Boost , Prod , Booster
Weekend Upgrades Complete!
2007-06-19 05:30:00 I apologize for not making any posts this weekend but I’ve had quite the busy weekend! Here’s everything I accomplished (in addition to routine backups and such): Formatted my Computer This took the longest of all my tasks, and I couldn’t really do anything until this was done. I like the feeling of a clean ... More About: Weekend , Upgrades , Complete
Weekend Maintenance
2007-06-17 06:15:00 Hey everyone, been doing some janitorial work on all my computers and servers. Reformatting, cleaning, upgrading etc. So no posts this weekend (aside from this one). To keep you entertained, here’s a random video of those crazy Japanese at it again! Your regularly scheduled posts will resume again on Monday! funny, videos More About: Weekend , Maintenance , Tena
How-to: Run Eclipse or Aptana from USB Drive
2007-06-16 04:37:00 Last week I mentioned that Eclipse is now my favorite IDE for web development in PHP, HTML, Ruby on Rails and Java. I also mentioned that you can run Eclipse off an USB drive and said I’d write a how-to… well as promised, here it is! Running Eclipse or Aptana from your USB drive ... More About: Web Development , Drive , Clipse
The 5 Most Useful Firefox Shortcuts
2007-06-15 03:29:00 Although Safari has broken onto the Windows platform, it is still no match for Firefox in terms of features and security. In order to further increase productivity and efficiency in Firefox, here are (in my opinion) the five most useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts. New Tab (Ctrl-T) Self explanatory. Should be noted that the location bar ... More About: Shortcuts , Short , Useful , Cuts
mediatemple Coupon and Referral Program
2007-06-14 06:12:00 Last month, my web hosting company mediatemple quietly rolled out a customer referral program offering hosting discounts for referring others! To use me as a referrer, click here to order a package or manually enter “cookielabs.com” into the referral box on the order form! Also, don’t forget to enter coupon codes kirupa05, surfstation or octeth ... More About: Referral , Program , Coupon , Mediate , Ferr
Boost your Blog Traffic - Update your Ping List
2007-06-13 03:26:00 Everyone likes extra traffic, so here’s a way to increase traffic to your blog. By default, Wordpress (and other blogging tools) will let different RPC services know that you’ve updated your blog by “pinging” them. (RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call but that isn’t important right now.) A ping is kind of ... More About: Blog Traffic , Traffic , Blog , List , Update
Safari on Windows - Hallelujah!
2007-06-11 23:20:00 At the WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) today, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced a few new things (iPhone stuff, new Mac OS blah blah). The most interesting (and most surprising) announcement was a port of Safari (Apple’s default web browser) into Window s XP and Vista. What this means for Web Developers This means us Windows developers ... More About: Web Development , Hallelujah
ViralTags Backlink Meme
2007-06-10 06:00:00 In another scheme to accumulate backlinks, I found this on JakelDaily. This one is unique from previous schemes because you can use an anchor text to promote your site. The imporant thing with this one is to keep on updating your current list with new additions, that way there is no disadvantage of ... More About: Meme , Alta
Surf Handsfree - Lazy Web Surfing
2007-06-09 06:03:00 Last month I launched my site, ShowoffRankings. This month, I’m announcing the launch of another site that has been in testing for some time now. It’s called Surf Hand sfree which allows you to do just that… surf the web without your hands. Why would you want to do this? Imagine a situation ... More About: Personal , Surfing , Handsfree
mediatemple?s GPU Overhaul - It?s Great!
2007-06-08 05:36:00 It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my web host, mediatemple or (mt) for short. For the most part, they have been very good and their grid server has been able to handle all diggs, stumbles, slashdots and other traffic spikes with no problem whatsoever. These spikes eat up bandwidth but luckily, many ... More About: Great , Mediate , Temp
My New Favorite IDE - Eclipse
2007-06-07 05:21:00 I’ve mentioned Aptana before as a very nice (free) alternative to Dreamweaver if you are primarily a coder like myself. I have been switching back and forth between the two for a while now, undecided on which one is better. On one hand, Dreamweaver has great FTP and site organization with an ... More About: Web Development , Rails , Eclipse , Favorite , Favor
Free Icons for your Website
2007-06-06 04:24:00 Whether you’re creating the next Facebook or if you just need a nice “Mail me” button, there are a ton of icons on the web. Unfortunately, you can’t just take what you want and use it on your site. (Well technically you could, but it would be immoral). That’s why I’ve ... More About: Website , Icons , Free , Cons
Agloco Viewbar Released and Reviewed!
2007-06-05 05:03:00 After months and months of waiting, Agloco has finally released their Viewbar today! Apparently they have not managed to implement all their ad-networks but due to the huge amount of customer complaints, they have released a version of the Viewbar with a workaround. What does this mean to the user? It means… well nothing. ... More About: Released , Offtopic , Lease , Ease
Favicon - It?s About Time!
2007-06-04 04:59:00 I’ve been putting off making a favicon because I haven’t found anything I liked that could be fit into a 16×16 icon. So this weekend, I finally spent a little time to create a favicon for my site. What is a favicon? A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is the little image that shows up ... More About: Time , Favicon
Month in Review - May 2007
2007-06-03 05:38:00 Another month, another monthly update. Here were the goals I set last month: Increase RSS Subscribers over 175 Well looks like I shattered this record with almost 300 subscribers (with the help of my evil RSS boosting method). I kind of feel like I’m cheating, although before implementing this method I was on my ... More About: Review , May 2007 , Month , Mont
AdesClrPicker - Replacing Photoshop for all your Color Picking Needs
2007-06-02 07:00:00 Here’s a situation I’m sure many of you web developers out there have come across. You’re designing a new Google Adsense ad and you want it to blend with your background but you’ve forgotten what the HEX value of your background color is! So you take a screenshot of your page, fire ... More About: Web Development , Color , Photoshop , Sponsored , Ades
Firefox Tip: Lightning Fast Highlighting.
2007-06-01 05:28:00 Firefox offers some nice features when it comes to highlighting text. These tips aren’t exclusive to Firefox only and I’m not sure if it works on all platforms (I recall being frustrated that something wasn’t as it should in Firefox on Ubuntu) but give some of these tips a try: Single click on URL ... More About: Firefox , Lightning , Fast , Highlight
An Evil Way to Increase RSS Stats
2007-05-31 04:53:00 Earlier this week I wrote a post discussing why a huge spike in traffic will cause an abnormal spike in RSS readership. All the theories I suggested are just that, theories. So I set out to do a little experiment to see if I could prove any of my theories and I ... More About: Evil , Stats , Stat , Ease
Ruby on Rails in a Nutshell
2007-05-30 04:11:00 Ruby on Rails is the latest craze (actually it’s been a craze for a while now, I’ve just been slow to adapt). If you haven’t tried it, then I would suggest you do so immediately! It makes the job of any serious web developer a hundred times easier and makes you much ... More About: Ruby , Ruby on Rails , Nuts
Why Digg Falsely Increases your RSS Feed Subscriber Count
2007-05-29 05:38:00 Last week, my post with the latest Starcraft 2 gameplay videos made it to the front page of the digg video section and received over 450 diggs. As a result, over 10,000 visitors poured in and the next day, my Feed burner count was at 266 (more than double the previous day’s count of ... More About: Digg , Count , Subscriber , Ease
Clever and Creative Outdoor Ads
More articles from this author:2007-05-27 23:33:00 Speaking of marketing and selling ads, here are some really clever outdoor ads from various companies. You may have seen some of them before but I bet some are new to you! This kind of creativity is bordering viral marketing, a tactic that is effective yet very inexpensive and it appears more ... More About: Creative , Outdoor , Clever , Door 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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