Well, it’s been over a month since my last post, and although there’s been a lot going on, I haven’t had much time to write about it. At my full time job we had a client application project that seemed pretty straight-forward so we decided to use the opportunity to…
Ames is the most tech-savvy, frugal shopper I know. If something is on sale at a great price she will know about it. As part of her daily quest for righteous deals, she found a thread on one of her discount sites that said that the 777 code on dreamhost…
Honestly, I didn’t see this one coming. I never thought of the idea of adding soda to my coffee or coffee to my soda. If you haven’t heard, Coca-Cola has added a new beverage to their lineup that is just that: Coffee and Cola. Even though Coke wasn’t the first…
Mike Davidson, you are officially the man. Or as Scrivs exclaimed in the first comment on Mike’s latest post, Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace, “You are a god amongst teenagers”! Where most self-proclaimed web professionals are squeamish about the very idea of creating a MySpace account, Mike saw it as…
I have entered the dark side. I now serve Google Adsense ads on my site. 🙂 I mentioned this idea last week and that I only wanted to serve contextual ads, and only to the 87% of people who were visiting my site via search engine referral. As it turns…
When it comes to making money from my personal site, I generally shy away from the idea. I’ve been a banner-ad/popup/sidebar-ad hater since I first started using the web, so why would I EVER want to put such them on my own site. Well, for one, I’m curious. I’d like…
Are all of your client sites April 11th Compliant? I’ve spent much of my day so far going through client websites (many of which we didn’t even build) looking for instances of applet, object and embed tags (mostly flash) to make sure they won’t break on April 11th. On that…
Ever since Dustin got back from SxSW, he’s been all about the public nudity. To continue this lascivious trend, he’s declared April 5th, 2006 to be the first annual CSS Naked Day. I know. I’m early, but I couldn’t contain my excitement. Why do I think this is such a…
If you haven’t heard of Blingo yet, it’s basically a search engine that gives you a chance to win a prize every time you search…well, the first 10 times you search in a given day. I’m usually a pretty gullible person when it comes to these types of things, but…
I wanted to be able to take a string of text, a blog entry in this case, and crop it down to the nearest sentence to a given maximum length value. I am sure this function exists in php, but I couldn’t find it so I wrote my own and…