Stephan Miller

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Woohoo, Google fiber is coming to KC. And I had a chance to go to the event.

Free websites for everyone, if you are dumb enough to sign a contract for a free domain that includes a whole 3 webpages and a domain for free for a year. Professional templates? I thought using templates was the sign of being unprofessional, i.e. my site looks exactly like his. Free Google Places listing? Wasn’t it already?

A free website that is about worth “free”. What can you do with 3 web pages? Oh that’s right. Adwords. You can pay for traffic after your free credit runs out.  Read more... (442 words, 2 images, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

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The main reason for Google to introduce the Panda Update is that the users across the globe is to enhance their experience by promoting meaningful and original content. Likewise it helps to penalize and narrow down that content which do not consist of real and useful text, text which proves to be beneficial for users. With this update, the sites which are not successful enough in providing users with enough knowledge are restricted.  Read more... (634 words, 2 images, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Screw that balancing writing and developing post. It worked then. But now that I am building my own ideas. And that is where I have been for a while. I developed a few things to automate a few of my jobs in php and was stuck there for a while, but it paid off. While I was doing that, I found that some of the code I needed to build part of my idea had already been written, but in Python. So what the hell, I’d check it out. Sikuli was pretty awesome and I have used it for a few things and picked up the Python syntax.  Read more... (817 words, 3 images, estimated 3:16 mins reading time)

Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In

This blog has subscribers. I have followers on Twitter. At one point, I realized these could be real people and I freaked out.

I used to spur of the moment posts about anything I happened to be doing during the day that might be useful to someone else. Then more people began reading and commenting on my blog and I wasn’t sure what to post next. At some point stage fright hits and there is so much you can’t write or at least you may tell yourself that.  Read more... (295 words, 2 images, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed the blog theme changed over the weekend. I didn’t really plan for that to happen. It was just the final result. It started with a message from my wife, saying that my comment form was down. I went in to fix it and found I couldn’t. This blog was about three WordPress updates behind at the time.  Read more... (308 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)