Stephan Miller

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FileMaker Pro Custom Functions

Great resource here with a search and over 600 custom functions listed.

I am the kind of guy who likes everything organized and in one place. My original plan was to use mysql and a locally running installation of Drupal to track everything from advertising ROI to logging content changes on websites, but that involved building modules. And what I really lack is time.

I did play around with the idea of using Filemaker 7.0 but since all of my business involves the internet, I trashed that idea. I use the software at my day job and know its ease of use to power ratio is huge. You can get started right [...] Continue Reading…

Then the Safari site wouldn’t have all the results on the first page of any search involving a tech question. It seems Safari does the tricky thing of allowing spiders to index the books on its site, but when you go there to find the information, you have to sign up for $40 a month to see it.

To me this is just as underhanded as any black hat spamming SEO out there. But Google doesn’t seem to care. If you go past these results for two or three pages, you finally find what you are looking for which is [...] Continue Reading…

Amazing technique to get FREE .edu backlinks that is 100% ethical

As some of you know, .edu sites are almost all authority sites according to Google and a link from an authority site will skyrocket your position in the SERP’s.

That being said, a free link from an .edu site is even better. Check out the link.

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

Great post on what you can do with Facebook and what Facebook can do for you. I will be looking into more later, but there is more here than I could get by just glancing through the pages of Facebook for a few minutes.

I especially like the breakdown of all the tools available for developers. They really have their act together.

I can’t wait until people say, “MySpace, what’s that?”.

Okay, there is an issue using Node Import to import ShareASale datafeeds.

Either the datafeed itself or the import process makes characters like “&” come up as character codes. I have had the same issue before with xml files, but now is not the time to investigate, just to fix the issue.

My solution, though a little hacky, was to create a page in Drupal with the import format set to “php code” and then paste code to clean these characters.

The three tables to focus on are:

term_data
node
node_revisions

Here is the code:

<?php
$deletes = array (
“&” => “&”,
“‘” => “\’”,
“>” => [...] Continue Reading…

Pageflakes Community

There are so many cool sites in existence now that you can hack your way into. PageFlakes is awesome. Pick a few of your interests. PageFlakes gets your city and state from your IP address and asks you if this is correct. And then it builds your page based on what you entered. Its like an automate iGoogle homepage for people who don’t want to search for all the feeds to add to page.

I am not saying it’s the best site that I have built and the css and layout still needs a little work, but it works great for now and it took very little time to set this site up and modify an old Photoshop template to work. It’s using tables which, I know, in website design today is a no no, but with the deadline I was trying to meet to have at least a usable site didn’t allow for rewriting a whole table based template in css. And I know I still need to create mouseover effects on [...] Continue Reading…

Lending Club

Want to invest in stocks? How about becoming a lending banker? I haven’t signed up yet, but here you can sign up as a lender or a borrower. In essence, you can borrow money at less than what a bank charges from other people in the club. If you have some money, you can loan it to other users and it looks like collect a percentage of the interest.

Somehow it’s connected to Facebook, who, as I have already said is going to kick everyone’s ass at the social network business.

I haven’t investigated enough to see what happens when [...] Continue Reading…

I finally cracked this code. Well, almost. I still have to create a template for the new nodes. I still have to clean up the taxonomy a little. Hopefully, I find a little tool for that, because yesterday I imported over 1000 products in less than five minutes.

Using a highly underpriced piece of software called Macro Express, I wrote a script that downloads datafeeds from from the ShareaSale ftp site and then breaks them into uploadable sized chunks.

The Drupal part of the process is still manual though. I am playing with the iOpus iMacros Firefox extension, but haven’t quite [...] Continue Reading…