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SEO Enhancements Deep Dive: Implementing 2024-2025 Best Practices

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:18:41 -0800

A practical guide to implementing modern SEO best practices including structured data schemas, dynamic sitemaps, image optimization, and meta tag enhancements for better search visibility.

What is JSON Web Token (JWT)

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0800

JWT basics illustrated and explained.

"The Get Down" of Operations

Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:00:00 -0800

The Get Down is a Netflix miniseries about a group of kids in the Bronx New York during that summer of 1977 when Disco was dying and Hip Hop/Rap was being…

Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0800

via Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese.

Nǐ hǎo 你好! Permanently on my desk, and everywhere I go is an iPad/iPhone app called Pleco, which has my custom flash cards that I use to quiz myself about 300 Chinese (Mandarin) characters. I’m getting pretty good with the help of a weekly instructor found via Craigslist, daily walks through Chinatown in NYC, and a website called Memrise. In less than a month I’ve been able to specifically translate (a lot of) the data sheets for products I’m sampling/purchasing for my job at Adafruit Industries, and for fun/downtime I’m translating some of the Chinese graffiti in Blade Runner (I always wanted to know what they said).

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:00:00 -0800

Here is an excellent article on the merits, install and use of NGINX and PHP…

www: the origin of the BLINK tag

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0800

A very interesting story of the origins of the BLINK tag.

Official Google Blog: Holiday templates to keep you organized

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0800

| Official Google Blog: Holiday templates to keep you organized | The holidays are upon us, and theres much to do: Gifts to be wrapped, lights to be strung, candles to be lit, and a long list of tasks at the home and the office. A little creativity can come in handy at this time of year. You can save time and money with the Google Docs template gallery for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Whether youre a small business owner or the chief holiday organizer, the gallery includes a few special templates designed to help you spread a little holiday cheer. Here are a few tips to help you get everything done on time

CherryPy - Trac

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0800

CherryPy - CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework.

Enhance your Blog Design with JQuery

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:00:00 -0800

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplies event handling, animation, Ajax interactions and much more. The WordPress admin uses JQuery to enhance a…

de-co-de: Apache Tomcat connector - mach-o, but wrong architecture

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0800

This error is because apache is compiled as a 64 bit executable and configure builds a 32 bit shared library…

Google Web Toolkit - Google Code

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0800

High performance JavaScript. GWT produces AJAX apps that:…

iMovie '08 Library Compressor | iNik

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:00 -0800

I love iMovie ‘08. I know, I know, it has less whizzy features than iMovie ‘06 does, but darn it, it’s so darn fast and easy to build videos. I can create…

Mac mini dual monitors using DualHead2Go - voice.firefallpro.com

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Aside from my minor grievances on the software grounds, I have been a pretty happy customer. Except for one thing. The total lack of upgradability in the…

perl.com: Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0800

an old article but very handy...

| perl.com: Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core | The Perl Core comes with a lot of little modules to help you get thejob done. Many of these modules are not well-known. Even some of the well-known modules have some nice features that are often overlooked. In this article, we'll dive into many of these hidden treasures of the Perl Core.

Nobody learns if nothing is brok3n: Turning a dmg into an iso

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Here is how you turn a dmg into an iso on OS X:…

Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You | codablog | Coda Hale

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Given this freedom, there are now a huge number of options available for deploying a Rails application, which is rare for such a new technology. So what…

How to Querying the RPM database - tuxfiles.org

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0800

After issuing this command, rpm either tells you the version of the package, or that the package isnt installed.

Microsuck | Microsofts Really Hidden Files

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:00:00 -0800

When I say these files are hidden well, I really mean it. If you dont have any knowledge of DOS then dont plan on finding these files on your own. I say…

40 Tips for optimizing your php Code - reinholdweber.com

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0800

| reinholdweber.com | 40 Tips for optimizing your php Code

| 1. If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4. | 2. echo is faster than print. | 3. Use echo's multiple parameters instead of string concatenation. | 4. Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop. | 5. Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays. | 6. Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload | 7. require_once() is expensive | 8. Use full paths in includes and requires, less time spent on resolving the OS paths. | 9. If you need to find out the time when the script started executing, $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_TIME’] is preferred to time() | 10. See if you can use strncasecmp, strpbrk and stripos instead of regex | 11. str_replace is faster than preg_replace, but strtr is faster than str_replace by a factor of 4 | 12. If the function, such as string replacement function, accepts both arrays and single characters as arguments, and if your argument list is not too long, consider writing a few redundant replacement statements, passing one character at a time, instead of one line of code that accepts arrays as search and replace arguments. | 13. It's better to use select statements than multi if, else if, statements. | 14. Error suppression with @ is very slow. | 15. Turn on apache's mod_deflate | 16. Close your database connections when you're done with them | 17. $row[‘id’] is 7 times faster than $row[id] | 18. Error messages are expensive | 19. Do not use functions inside of for loop, such as for ($x=0; $x < count($array); $x) The count() function gets called each time. | 20. Incrementing a local variable in a method is the fastest. Nearly the same as calling a local variable in a function.

How To Create a Web App - readwriteweb.com

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:00 -0800

This is the second post in our series on how to run a startup and develop a product. In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup, we outlined the process…

Ubuntu Linux view the status of my NIC

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:00:00 -0800

A. You can verify connectivity or status of your network Interfaces/card using standard Linux command. Open your terminal and use following commands:…

Filmmaker's Tool Kit: Creating a Movie with Web 2.0

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:00:00 -0800

The tool kit below will help you take your idea from start to finish and fulfill your dream of winning an Oscar (okay, maybe not, but you have to start…

Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems -- InformationWeek

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:00:00 -0800

It can be easy to dump thousands of dollars into a content management system that no one in your company will want to (or can figure out how to) use. Here…

Please backup your hard drive now… twice - goodCRIMETHINK

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:00:00 -0800

In college, a freak transformer explosion and subsequent power surge killed my hard drive. From that point on, I swore to always back up my data, and…

CSS Juice » The Color Of Design - Important Points About Color Theory

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Some color combinations work and others look absolutely terrible; this is a subject that anyone interested in design should consider examining. The…

Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:00 -0800

The key is a simple file called robots.txt that has been an industry standard for many years. It lets a site owner control how search engines access their…

Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:00:00 -0800

| Official Google Blog: Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility | This is the third and last in my series of blog posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP). In the first post, I introduced robots.txt and the robots META tags, giving an overview of when to use them. In the second post, I shared some examples of what you can do with the REP. Today, I'll introduce two new features that we have recently added to the protocol.

The Secret Language of Babies - Amazing Medical Breakthroughs

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:00:00 -0800

all around the world have the same reflexes, and they therefore make the same sounds," she says. If parents dont respond to those reflexes, Priscilla…

Daring Fireball: BBColors 1.0

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:00:00 -0800

So, I’ve put together a little command-line tool called BBColors; it lets you save, load, and share text color preference schemes for BBEdit and…

Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Ever since the Newton came—and went—in the 1990s, a small but vocal group of Mac users have clamored for a tablet Mac. At least to this point, Apple…

Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:00:00 -0800

| Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X | Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product | on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern | browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the | World Wide Web Consortiums W3C standards, testing your pages with the W3C | Validation Tool is a great way to ensure that your pages work with modern | browsers. The W3C Validator provides a line-by-line level of feedback, such as | error information with references to the standards, on any URL you submit or | HTML file you upload.

Illustrator CS2 crashes on Intel Mac 10.4.8

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Adobe Illustrator CS2 crashes on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.4.8 when a designer tries to use a tool on the pathfinder palette. This only happens…

Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2 on Mac OS X

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:00:00 -0800

Java Studio Creator is an easy-to-use visual tool for developing Web applications with Java. Designed for the corporate developer who needs to be…

macosxhints.com - An assortment of potentially interesting free apps

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:00:00 -0800

macosxhints.com - An assortment of potentially interesting free apps…

Over 160 Free Personal Information Managers

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:00:00 -0800

Over 160 Free Personal Information Managers - lifehack.org…

Scripts to create an IP info summary display

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:00:00 -0800

macosxhints.com - Scripts to create an IP info summary display…

Intro to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:00:00 -0800

One of the biggest advantages of Mac OS X’s UNIX heritage is the huge range of open source scripting languages available. Scripting languages are often…

Handy CSS layout generator for web developers

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:00:00 -0800

Someone on IRC pointed me to this CSS generator, and the number of options and output are impressive. The ability to have verbose comments in the CSS is a…

Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0800

One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting. With an internet clogged with false hosting review sites…

Google Pack of usefull tools

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0800

So you bought a new PC for yourself or a relative during the holidays. There was the initial excitement about its speed and the nice screen %u2013 and…

Software - DMS for Mac OSX

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:00:00 -0800

Installing Alfresco to create workflows and manage your documents…

HOW TO - Enhanced Podcasts

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:00:00 -0800

| MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make Enhanced Podcasts (images, links and more with audio) | Apple's new iTunes 4.9, iPod color, allows you to view (and listen to) "enhanced podcasts" these are audio files that can have slideshows, URLs and some cool features we have discovered. Apple's included documents and a Wiki was all I needed to make our MAKE enhanced podcasts, but I also wrote a how-to. Here's how to get, make and all you need to know about enhanced podcasts! As a bonus, we put together some fun ideas we think many might use...

iPod ebook How To

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:00:00 -0800

| MAKE: Blog: MAKE ebooks for your iPod guide! | There’s a somewhat little know and often-unused function of iPod called "Notes" which can actually be quite handy for storing and reading text, creating a locked "kiosk mode", quizzes, games as well a full-length ebooks. The Notes reader is located in Menu > Extras > Notes. Only the more recent 3G and 4G iPods, including the iPod photo and iPod mini both have the iPod Notes application. Here’s our how-to on making them!

Google Sitemaps

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:00:00 -0800

Initially, we plan to use the URL information webmasters supply to further improve the coverage and freshness of our index. Over time that will lead to…

Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?

Tue, 17 May 2005 10:00:00 -0800

Mac OS X is built of two components, Darwin, the BSD-based Unix underpinnings, and Aqua, the beautiful graphical user interface we Mac heads have all…

Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, Part 1

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:00:00 -0800

O’Reilly Network: Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X [Aug. 09, 2002](…

Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, Part 2

Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:00:00 -0800

O’Reilly Network: Homemade Dot-Mac with OS X, Part 2 [Sep. 20, 2002](…

New study on graphic communications market released

Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:00:00 -0800

MacMinute: New study on graphic communications market released

| July 17, 2003 - 08:15 EDT | IDG World Expo and TrendWatch Graphic Arts today announced results of their Spring 2003 study of the creative markets during a presentation at Macworld CreativePro Expo. A few highlights of the study show that 82% of respondents use the Mac OS as their primary system, 17% have upgraded to Mac OS X, while only 22% said they use a Mac as their primary system at Internet design and development firms.

Live report from MacWorld NY 2003

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:00:00 -0800

As reported on applematters.com {.title-ref}…