This may not be news to anyone else, but it was a surprise to me when I ran into it, so I thought perhaps someone else might find it helpful. Let’s imagine that you’ve got a form with a textarea that allows for a decent amount of user input, like, say a blog post or a news item on your family website. When you push the “Enter” key it goes down to the next line. [...]

I read a few articles today that got me thinking. I’ll reference them up front since the ideas I pulled from them are a little intermingled. The first article was How Apple Could Rock Wireless on CNN. The other was on MacRumors called Cingular/Rogers Not Subsidizing iPhone Cost. I realize it’s unusual to have two articles, but it took both articles to paint the whole picture. Currently, cellular service providers subsidize a large portion (if [...]

In the realm of analyzing traffic that your web-site is generating, there are two main approaches. Log-file analysis & real-time analysis (I don’t know if that’s an industry term, but that’s what I’m going to call it). Real-Time Analysis As a general rule, the real-time analysis tools use javascript to track visitors to your website. Pasting a bit of javascript into the header of your HTML pages (or templates) means that every time a page [...]

Had an interesting discussion in class about search engine optimization in class today. For those who don’t know, search engine optimization is the idea of getting your site to pop up in search engines when certain keywords are typed. Every search engine has different algorithms for determining which links are displayed for certain searches. These algorithms are usually (if not always) secret and constantly evolving to get around the click fraudsters and google bombers. First [...]

So I’ve now switched back to WordPress. I just finished a manual migration of sorts to pull all my posts back over from Typo. Part of the problem was mod_ruby woes, part was little bugs, and part was features that just weren’t available (although the skins are way better). Excuse me while the dust settles and I pick up my WordPress habits once again. My web-host uses Apache1.3_mod_ruby to host Rails applications. This reloads the [...]