If your website is running on an Apache server, its very easy to restrict access to a folder to only yourself or a select few people. This is very useful if parts of your site are not yet fully operational, or if you want to run a small “beta”. Read the rest of this article »
I found this neat trick the other day… If you notice someone is trying to hack your website, or just would rather a certain individual not stop by anymore, its very easy to ban the offender if you’re using Apache as your webserver. Read the rest of this article »
Recently I sat down and chatted with Ben Johnson, a developer friend of mine, about the workflows we have as developers. It was a very interesting chat, and he graciously agreed to let me post it here.
I was checking my gmail today and saw this adsense ad:
“We are Woot.com - www.woot.com - Our tiny profit is lost. Haiku ads don’t work.”
Wow. Probably the most clever text adsense ad i’ve ever seen. Props to you if you got the joke as well.
If you are, work with or want to be a professional designer, you MUST READ THIS…
I had a chat with MD, a professional designer friend of mine. I wanted to get an idea of what his design process is, as well as his thoughts on the current “Web 2.0″ situation and what it means for professional designers right now. He graciously agreed to allow me to post the conversation to the blog!
Theres been a lot of new functional changes made to iswapyou in the last two weeks. Summary is listed below.
CMMi, also known as the Capability Maturity Model Integration, is a hot topic in software developing and/or supplying organizations these days. To many it is the new hot buzzword, replacing ISO as the de facto standard of choice. Many managers feel that if you aren’t CMMi compliant, you’re bleeding money.
Theres a few ways to add Google Adsense to your WordPress blog posts. One of the easiest ways is to simply switch to the “Code” tab when writing a post, and then post your adsense code from Google Adsense. See the images below for if you’re not sure where either of these is.
Databases run just about everything on the web, from ebay to the latest social networking site. Any site that generates a lot of content and updates on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis should use some sort of online database. There is a reason that most blogs use either a “flat file” database (i.e. MoveableType), or a commercial or open source database application (i.e. WordPress - which this blog uses). Databases store your data so you can output and shape it based on the function that your sites user wishes to perform. This is the meaning of “dynamic data”, the benefits of which i will describe below.
Todays nerdgasm is the ever fun, ever cheap Woot.com. “Woot!” (yes, the name has an exclamation point - i know… they’re insane) has is the purveyor of absolutely rediculous deals. There have been $16 one GB name brand MP3 players. I bought a 250 GB hard drive for $50 in 2006 (that’s half price what you’ll get it for now, and it’s almost 2008 folks)! Companion sites sellout.woot and wine.woot also have amazing deals.
