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I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found .htaccess files a bit confusing.  What with their regular expressions and all they can be a pain to research, create or edit.  Well, not anymore. The folks over at htaccesseditor.com have made it much easier for the uninitiated to create and edit .htaccess files.  Common uses of [...]

Aaron over at SEO Book.com released a free Firefox extension to check your keyword rankings on Google, international Google search results, Yahoo! and Microsoft.  I have to say after giving it a test spin, it’s pretty slick! The extension offers lots of configuration options and you can even export your report to CSV.  Check one [...]

About a year ago I stumbled upon LinkedIn.  I thought it was an interesting resource and decided to sign up.  At first, I didn’t think it was all that great.   That is, until I had about 50 connections. You see, LinkedIn can serve simply as a business curiosity or become a powerful way to maintain [...]

Let’s face it, we’ve all been taken in by a practical joke or two.  Me?  I love dishing them out.  However, no one does it better than the Interwebs on April Fool’s Day.  Here’s what I’ve found so far: Yahoo! Confirms MS Merger, Name Change Announcing Project Virgle – Virgin Group and Google team up [...]

Last year I was looking for a quality live chat feature to add to one of my sites. Mostly, this would be used for customer service. I looked at a number of commercial products such as LivePerson. LivePerson is very robust and complete. It’s also crazy expensive. After running it through the evaluation period, we [...]

Blogging requires the discipline to churn out content frequently.  Thankfully, our friends at WordPress.org have created the ultimate blogging platform.  Now, they’ve released the latest and greatest version of their software.  I moved several 2.3.3 blogs through the three release candidates and the final release with zero problems.  Their famous 5 minute install/upgrade is the [...]

As a follow on to my post on bootstrapping, I thought I’d share some of the ways I keep costs down. Website Hosting – Unless you’re building something really big and complex, you don’t need your own server and/or collocation.  Even if you are, it’s cheaper to prototype your application with something like PHP/MySQL that [...]