Stephan Miller

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Exploring React Native Pointer Events

Pointer events were designed to be hardware-agnostic and target a specific set of coordinates on the screen and now you can use them in React Native

2023

How to Store JSON in PostgreSQL

Often the data for an application won't fit completely into either a relational or NoSQL world. PostgreSQL gives you options.

2022

2021

2020

Just Code It

Stop waiting until you know what you are doing. Stop waiting until the idea is complete. Just code it.

2019

The Truth About a Computer Science Degree

Your computer science degree is not job training to be a programmer. Most likely, all the technologies you use at your first job you will have to learn there...

The One Who Writes

There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.

Don't Make a Habit a Crutch

There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.

2018

2017

2016

Testing My New Web Only Jekyll Deployment

So Jekyll is a great choice for a blog if you don’t need to run a dynamic site and I just got tired of running a whole hackable application on a server somew...

2015

Crickets

On the topic of crickets, you know those crickets that live in your basement that look like they were crossed with a spider on some alien planet, well...&nbs...

2014

Using Display Suite View Mode Switcher

Well, I happened to be looking at Display Suite Extras and found something I thought I might be able to use for a project I am working on. It creates a switc...

Phoenix

Bear with me while I try to make this thing rise from the dust. After spending the time to convert it from Wordpress to Drupal, I sort of let it sit stagnant...

So I Wrote a Book on the Phalcon Framework

I have to admit I change my mind a lot. I started out rolling my own sites in PHP and MySql. Then I spent a lot of time with Wordpress and various Ecommerce ...

2013

It's Alive

Well kind of at least. Just switched from Wordpress to Drupal. Got tired of using plugins I needed but never could trust to be safe and for the last 8 months...

2012

Mastering Magento - A Magento User's Manual

It takes a while after learning to develop with Magento to even consider picking up any random Magento job that comes along. I have learned that every site h...

RSS, the Dark Side is Strong with You

And you thought RSS was the best thing about blogs, the advantage they have over a standard website without a feed. But think about it for a second.

2011

SEO and Blogging Basics- Why SEO Works

Blogging and SEO are inseparable. The blog is perhaps the defining website content, and blogs cover every imaginable subject on Earth. The trouble is that lo...

Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook Review

Development in Magento I would have to say that I chose Magento in the first place because it would have a lot of the features we would need available withou...

2010

Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook Review

This is the third Magento book I have reviewed at this blog. The first book took a beginner through the basics of adding products to and running a Magento st...

Thoughts on Moving Forward

I was preparing another reason not to blog for my reasons not to blog series. It was going to be entitled “My Blog has an Identity Crisis”. But I actually ca...

The $4000 Notebook

Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML via Flickr Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In

What's New with Magento

First, let me tell you that I will soon be receiving the Magento 1.3 PHP Developer’s Guide to review. Magento has an architecture link no other software. Hop...

What I Do Sundays

Image by Vidiot via Flickr I started writing this post a few weeks ago on a Sunday. I was just getting to a weekly rhythm and something broke, so that S...

Yes, Virginia, SEO's are Ruining Google

Image via Wikipedia And here are some similar phrases that I put in the same basket: "We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Mid...

Work For Yourself Daily

Image by guydonges via Flickr Reason Not To Blog: I have to work to put food on the table.

Reasons Not To Blog - A Series

Image by eristoddle via Flickr A Few Weeks Ago A few weeks ago I started writing posts and saving them on my desktop. You see, each one of the posts I w...

People I Have Worked With in Kansas City

Image via Wikipedia Since I have starting working on websites here in Kansas City, I have had the chance to work with a lot of local tech people. And si...

2009

Extrapolation, Not Duplication

Cover via Amazon "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his ...

Just Write An Email

I wrote this article a long time ago, before I had a blog. It references Outlook, so it had to be a while ago. I haven’t used Outlook in a long time. </p&...

The Inner Workings of the Twitter Machine

I am not quite sure why a made my last post a cliff hanger. To tell you the truth, I was running out of time and decided to just cut the post in two parts. T...

A Twitter Machine

I must admit I can’t help. I see one technology and try to attach it to another. And then another and another. I originally learned to program so I could cre...

My Top Subscribed Posts

I happened to be exploring the happened to be exploring the backend fo this blog today making sure everything was up to date, discovering what plugins I had ...

Listening to Twitter

Twitter has changed search and has also changed the meaning of the term “up-to-date”. This is no longer waiting until the next scheduled news cast. And forge...

A Change in the Blog Design

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 resu...

The Changes at Bloghology Social Network

Despite being immersed in the internet for 12 hours a day at times, I am not quite sure of the definition of a social network. Some are for bookmarks, some f...

Learn, Integrate and Automate

Image via Wikipedia The Only Employee It's a slow cycle when you are trying to learn everything you can about the Internet, Search Engines, Social Media and ...

A Few Ways to Search Faster than Google

Image via Wikipedia About 100 years ago, you would have to wait for a newspaper to get the news or go to the library to look up information. And the inform...

How to Win Friends and Influence Tweeps

One of the reasons I don’t post as often as I used to here is social networks. Another reason is that not writing one day starts a trend. It may take 21 days...

How to Write Fast - From Various Sources

Cover via Amazon I think it is quite ironic that I am writing this post while trying to avoid writing a post. I know why I searched for the topic in Google a...

2008

How Many Hats You Wear?

Ground Zero I started out selling on Ebay. I didn’t know much more than HTML. I knew nothing about SEO. And I knew that some people had made money with affil...

TidyFavorites: Bookmarks and More

Not another bookmarking tool. That’s what I thought at first. I had finally settled on delicious as my tool of choice. I can save, search and archive. Much b...

Blog Blazers: A First Impression

Last night, I received my copy of Blog Blazers. I got it for free to review it. I can’t tell how excited I was over that. In fact, I had to analyze the excit...

Organic Social Media Marketing

Organic is used a lot on the internet. So let me explain how I am applying it to social media marketing. How do you learn social media marketing? That was a ...

Leveraging Your Social Media Efforts

Image via Wikipedia Today I just happen to do a search for "mobile blog posting software" and ran into ShoZu which does more than mobile blog posting. The ...

Kansas City e-Commerce Job - Entry Level

We have too many products and all of our vendors just doubled their lines. First let me warn you, "entry level" means "entry level". If you just can't handle...

Yes

Image by abbyladybug via Flickr And to reiterate, yes!

Highlight Midwest and Unconferences

This started as a post telling you to come to Highlight Midwest in Kansas City this Wednesday, but then the iframe virus hit the server this blog once lived ...

My First Review of RankSense

I am writing this post tethered to the wall by a cord. I have a laptop but the battery is a year old, lasts about 10 minutes now and I am waiting on the new ...

Narrowing Down My Networks

You see the WTFMO widget on the side of my blog. It’s a scam. For a while there I was signing up for everything like a maniac. Not that that is a bad thing. ...

At Blog World Expo

Well, not really there. I am in a hotel room, a purple and pick one with the jet engine type air conditioner. But it works. Damn sure lot of construction goi...

Blogging is a Bitch

Okay, time to get these off my chest and write them down so that I can separate the stupid from the actual true issues.

The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan

Image via Wikipedia MMO Blogs My blog is number 53 on the top 100 Make Money Online blogs. It has hovered right that number for a while. Amazing, considerin...

The Blogging Monk

This was going to be a post about how I got away from blogging for the weekend to get back to writing. And that part’s true. I started writing it yesterday a...

Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Right now, for some reason, I can’t access my Wordpress admin. Well, I can. In one way. I can click around on the top menu. The thing is that, nothing appear...

How to MacGyver Yourself Some Software

Other working titles for this article were “Guerilla Programming” and “How to Build Rube Goldberg Apps”, but I had to make a choice.

Internet Writing Practice

Writing Down the Bones If you have not read this book, do so now. It was written by Natalie Goldberg. It will change your attitude about writing and is my ba...

How to Get a Tech Job with a G.E.D

I have never been one to hold a job for long. I don't have a degree. About two years was my limit. It has not been the pay as much as the boredom. Once I cou...

Writing Every Day

I do work in a lot of different areas on teh internets. And each job I do has different effects on my mind. I have to enter that job's mind mode for a short ...

Single Tasking is Hard To Do

Doing one thing at a time. It's a nice concept and may seem easy, but I guess it depends on how you handle things. I know it works. I know the sense of accom...

A List of Top Blog Lists

I cover a lot of topics and read a lot of blogs. Up until recently, I had them all in one folder in my feed reader. Then I broke them up into folders. That t...

No More Banners Here

I decided to take the banners off the site. They didn't help with the view. And unless my traffic increases exponentially here soon, I am not going to lose a...

On Getting Advice

It is good to live with someone you trust to tell you that you are being stupid. Of course, part of the deal is actually listening when that person says you ...

7 Very Cool Free Desktop Feed Readers

I have been so wrapped up lately trying to replace desktop software with web apps that I haven't looked into desktop feed readers for a long time. I used Fir...

I Wanna Be a Ass Hat SEO, Please

Using the term “Black Hat”, automatically assumes the existence of White, Gray and theoretically “No Hat” techniques.</p><h3>No Hat SEO</h3>...

The Pen Collection

If there is anything I will steal from you it will be your pen. That is, if you have one worth stealing. I collect pens. I haven't quite got to the upper end...

Getting Away From Monkey Mind

The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading ...

Set Yourself Up for Failure with Rules

I have gradually built up a list of invisible rules for this blog. What are invisible rules? Rules set by the popularity of past posts. Rules that cause writ...

Feed Consolidation for Niche Blogs

One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These ...

Where I've Been Lately

I can be accused of reaching too far. I can also be accused of getting in over my head, at least for a few days at a time. But, if I had a choose between hav...

Getting Closer to the Clouds

I decided to write a post about cloud computing, because I am using less and less of my own resources and more and more of what is freely and cheaply availab...

Help a Blogger Fight a Corporation

Support Vlad Zablotskyy's Defense Fund Defend your own right to free speech!   I will have to send you to a couple of other blo...

Testing the 0-60 of a New Blog

I have been trying to start another blog lately. At least, that's what I am telling myself. It's a clean slate right now and that's a good place to start. I ...

Getting Related

I have got my lifestream up and running on Gregarius. I still plan on using Profilactic though. It will be more effective at updating the stream multiple tim...

On the Trail of LifeClusters

I went back to Darkroom today. I needed only to see the words continuing on the black screen to know that I missed this. I think I actually type faster that ...

A Huge List of Keyword Tools

There doesn't seem to be a common consensus on what keyword tools are useful or whether you need to use them in the first place, but there are a lot and we w...

Fixed Costs and Fixed Time

Time is money. It may be something we all agree on, but what does it really mean. Fixed costs are nice. One of my fixed costs is hosting. When I make $4000 i...

A Few Quick Tips for Ecommerce Sites

I rank pretty high for specific terms when it comes to ecommerce, even though I haven't written a post in a while. I have learned a lot through running an ec...

Article Spinning and Content Creation

If I actually like to write, why am I looking into artificial content creation. Because it's interesting. I am on the trail of building a contextual matching...

Don't Be a WP 2.5 Hater

I have had issues with Wordpress upgrades in the past. Nothing makes my day like going through the upgrade process, refreshing the page and getting a nice cl...

My Ideas on Multiblogging

Traveling Detail Light When studying a new technology, I plunge in headfirst. I have read a lot of books and from experience, despite what I learned from boo...

How to Teach Yourself to Make Money Online

Dealing with Incomplete Information I learned in a De Bono thinking course that for some things, you will just never have complete information. So there is s...

How to Mask Procrastination and Wasted Time

Habits are hard to break. Habits are hard to create. Any productivity book I have read that doesn't state those two points clearly goes in one ear and out th...

R.I.P Stephan Miller

Celebrity grizzly Rocky mauls trainer Stephan Miller to death - Times Online I realized I was getting above normal hits to my site today. It crashed this sit...

The Continuous Process of Change

  Repeating Myself Now let's see if I can write this post without repeating myself. Or I will have to start calling my blog 101 ways to look at producti...

Yet Another Sunday

I started carrying my camera on Friday this week. Trying to make it a habit to be more observant. A lawn mower as a mode of transportation. The tea is call...

Optimizing Wordpress for Search Engines

I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down...

A Weekend of Work

This weekend I got off my butt and went down a list of things I wanted to get done. I built a list of blogs using the CommentLuv plugin over at my site ...

Panic As Fuel

I am a relatively organized and driven person, but I do get comfortable. Comfortable is spending way to much time exploring and not enough time marketing and...

I Will Be Exploring Freelancers

It's time to shift my focus a little again, back to projects, code and campaigns. I am just this close to having the theme done for my other blog. And then I...

Comfort Zones, Slacking and Brain Enemas

I've been a slacker for a couple of weeks now. The money has been good, so I slowed down. Not here at my blog, but with other projects. It's a habit I know w...

A Question of Semantics

A while ago I wrote a post questioning the issue of reblogging. Posts are often reblogged on meme tracking sites which use an algorithm to detect popular sto...

Lessons Learned at Low Paying Jobs

I didn't quit a cush job to start making money online. I did it while I was making $12 an hour and realized the ceiling was right around $16. I am a lazy per...

How to Give a Blog Post More Emphasis

Most people don't give a second thought to how the search engines work. When I explain that part of my job, I have to say something along the lines of, "...

Word Salad - A Post in the Raw

Everything blends together in my mind. I haven't figured out yet if this is normal or not. The first time I noticed this was when a boss told me to leave my ...

How to Find the Right Software

I have come to the decision that I will never hire employees. Nope. I have managed people before and I have come up with a equation that sums it up. Take the...

First Things First

I have been reading The Four Hour Work Week lately. It takes a while. I get a half hour in here and ten minutes there, but I will get through it. It has made...

Your Opinion on Reblogging

I don't like rehashing. Most of the time I wait until I had something to add to a topic before I jump in, whether it be a new technique or some research resu...

Riding Waves of Productivity

I tend to discount inspiration. I wrote an article about it once because much of the time, it is used for an excuse. Last week I wrote a series of posts tha...

The Curses of A Contact Form

Okay, now I know that I could do research and find a spam free contact form or something along those lines. But it involves a lesson that took me a long time...

Tunnels, Carrots, and Tangents

I have been writing the posts in this blog for the me of three years ago. "I come from hard working stock." Three years ago I was just looking for ...

Adjusting to Sporadic Cash

This is a good year. Affiliate marketing is recession proof. If Americans are broke, I can sell in Australia, England, Canada and other English speaking coun...

A Final Traffic Update, I Think

Why final? Because I don't think it adds much any more. This is the sixth one since I started focusing on getting traffic to this blog and I haven't added to...

Kombucha Tea

This weekend I haven't been around the net much. I actually got out with the love of my life. We got a babysitter. And went over to Overland Park, Kansas in...

How Do You Find Blogs to Comment on?

There are a few things you have to do if you want to get the word out about your blog. Joining blogging social networks helps. Writing good posts help. But y...

Long Tail Time Bombs

I knew I would have to explain this one today. If you noticed, I have a popular posts widget in the top right corner of this blog. This is based on Google An...

Success, One Mistake at a Time

I am a dumbass when it comes down to it. I was going to list a whole bunch of mistakes I have made here, but then realized that some of them make me cringe w...

Rereading A Good Book

This weekend I started reading The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke again. You can find most of the contents of that book here. Entropy Gradient Reve...

Flash Where It Should Be Used

I have Flash turned off on my browser. I use Flock and have a few addons that I can't live without. But it kept slowing down on me, so I trimmed a few things...

How Does a Blogger Do Taxes?

I love affiliate marketing. I was on cloud 9, just moved cross country and was about to do my taxes. Bam. I had killed my day job before the move. But the da...

Research Left Over From the Weekend

I was busy this weekend with projects but didn't quite get everything all finished. To clear off my web clipboard, I am putting them here for future referenc...

Average, Normal, and Regular

Right now, by all accounts, I should have 1.2 kids, be $10,000 in credit card debt, and have had two major car accidents by now. But not one of these is rig...

Getting Past Scheduling

I revisit the topic of schedules every so often because schedules are evolving things. The reason why Zen to Done works for me is that it minimizes the impor...

How Should I Monetize My Website or Blog?

If you know your niche, that's basically all you have to look at when you are searching for ways to monetize a site, along with "how big is the cut"...

Blog Monetization Strategies

Last night I sat down and decided I wanted to list all the ways to monetize a blog. Not a list of websites, but a list of types. That way I could look at the...

TNX.net

Notice: Buying text links in today's internet landscape is a risk and not something I would advise to newbies. But it does have i...

A Glitch in The System

I used to work on cars. I thought I loved it at the time. I realized after a while that I hated it. I like saving the money. Don't get me wrong. I still will...

My Wordpress Time Machine

I think most of us know the advantage of setting our timestamps ahead on our posts. I am here but I am not. For all you know, I could have written this post ...

The Best Laid Plans

The Plans I plan to write good posts. Once, I thought blogging was just internet writing and I just spit out a few words here and left for weeks at a time. I...

Nice Little Traffic Update

This is the best one so far. And I guess it should be that way. The current one should be the best. But I think by the time I write another one of these, I w...

Automatic Form Filling With Firefox

fireform :: Firefox Add-ons I am still surprised at the amount of people who don't know the existence of this plugin. I am currently writing a database/pr...

Cleaning Off My Desktop with RapidReader

No Time To Read I don't know about you, but I don't get that much time to read. I used to read all the time. Now I get eye bites. Short glimpses of paragraph...

Monetization So Far and Alinks

This weekend was another research weekend, hence my last links post. I have been looking a lot at the alinks plugin. This plugin allows you to assign urls to...

Windows Live Writer

I have tried a few desktop blogging programs. The closest I came to anything I would use was Qumana or Scribefire. Both programs claimed tagging support, but...

Google Adwords Demographic Bidding

Got an email from Adwords today. It seems that they just opened a beta program where advertisers can bid on specific groups of people. Demographic bidding i...

Using Software to Save Time

Usually my day to day activities give me enough material to write about, especially when I break things. There is no better fuel for writing than outright bi...

Using Firefox as a To Do List

I carry a Moleskine around to write random ideas down which I later put in a bigger notebook which consist of to do list, article ideas, half finished articl...

The Jamaican Challenge

I have good intentions to post every day. The problem with that is human nature. The days that I actually go to my day job, I wake up at 4:45 am, grab everyt...

What to do with my feed?

I don't know about Feedburner sometimes. It seems everyone uses the service. I like using it. But I am not sure if my subscriber count could have possibly ju...

Rihanna for Smile Jamaica-Africa Unite

I need to get out of this icy Midwestern weather. Perfect time to go to Jamaica, except for the whole money situation. And that is changing. Maybe next year....

Getting Unstuck

I have said many times before that I don't get writer's block. No, I just have days where anything I type turns magically into crap right before my eyes and ...

How My Blog Got Hacked

About a week ago, Digital Products Review, a blog where I am slowly breaking down how I make money through Clickbank, got hacked by someone from Georgia. Not...

Google Says They're Sorry

Search for something on Google and get this page: We're Sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware app...

Get More Visitors to Your Blog

I recently wrote a post about the different types of links you can get to your blog and what they mean to your traffic. One was a more active way through soc...

Comment Nazis

I put a contact form on this blog just so that anyone who wanted to contact me. Well, someone did this week. I will not mention any names. But someone conta...

Filemaker Server 9 Crashing Issues

I wanted to get this post in, because there is not much information on this subject around the net, but I also wanted to stay with the theme of the blog. Fol...

The Real Free Credit Report

Shortly after the holiday season, my mind turns to taxes and this year, to the fact that I got trapped in an ARM that increases my mortgage payment two month...

Traffic Update #4

I hope that I will be getting to some of the John Chow type income updates soon, but last month I made about $50 from this blog or about 1% of my affiliate i...

New Year's Resolutions

I figured I would rob a few from other blogs, considering I just made a resolution to be more active in the blogosphere a few months ago. I do have a few of ...

2007

Looking at Links Again

One thing blogging has done for me is force me to put into words vague ideas that have been floating around in my head for a while. I may not have the clout ...

What Kind of Links Do I Need to My Site?

There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on b...

Creating Your Own Blogging Schedule

In the last three months or so, I have kept a pretty good schedule of blogging. It involves getting up an hour and fifteen minutes earlier each day, getting ...

Christmas Link Love

First I want to preface this post with the fact that I wrote it Dec. 23. I'm not quite the workaholic everyone think's I am. I do try to take days off. I hav...

Tricking Yourself into Getting Things Done

It seems like getting ahead involves constantly looking back at how you react in certain situations and figuring out your way around yourself the next time. ...

Another Reason to Hate Mac's

Think Secret - Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit Because Apple likes throwing there weight around and beating up the little guy. I am a little late posting ...

More Bamboo Fun

I swear that one of these days I will have something useful to do with this Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but for now it's like having a million colored pencils i...

Snow Day

Yesterday was a snow day for me. I spent most of Saturday evening on the laptop watching the snow fall outside. It wasn't done when I went to bed. The kids h...

Burning Down the House

I see so many people that don't think or don't even care to. When they search for a way to make money online, they want a system. Do they care how the system...

How to Promote Your Wordpress Theme

Talk about an increase in traffic and I didn't have to bribe someone to digg or stumble one of my posts. I was getting really antsy to be finished with this ...

Bamboo Fun

I got an early Christmas present today. It's a Wacom tablet. I was looking at one a year ago, but got a new cell phone instead. I have to say that I can't wa...

Multiple Widgets Wordpress Theme

I figured I would host all of my Wordpress experiments on another blog, Renovating Wordpress. I am going to be doing a lot with Wordpress in the next few mon...

A Writing Reading List

I don't know if it's me, but a lot of bloggers out there seem to assume that writing is just sitting at your computer and typing. Get your ideas in order and...

How to Create a Blogging Network

The other day I ran into a post over at DoshDosh about the Flagship Blog Project. It's quite a schedule. A new blog every 30 days. Ever since then I have bee...

Traffic Update

This was suppossed to be a traffic update. But I woke up sick today and I don't really feel like getting to all the details. I barely ever get sick and today...

Keeping a Notebook

And I don't mean keeping a laptop. I meaning having a place to write things down to get them out of your mind. I have written in a notebook for almost twenty...

Multidimensional Posts

Every now and then in the blogosphere you run into a post that lists types of posts you can make on your blog. This is a great help if you are stuck. There i...

@money

Maybe I don't have a good bookkeeping system or maybe affiliate marketing has too many ups and downs to calculate an average or maybe I am just a straight id...

Why Facebook Sucks

I have finally made it to this point with Facebook. Nope, no convincing me otherwise. I get enough spam in my email to waste my time. And it's like I wiretap...

How to Add Images to Your Blog

I don't know if images help or detract from the content. I think I like them and have been adding them to most posts lately. I have also been bugging a lot o...

My BlogRush Stats

In my head, I am always speaking out of my ass. This time it spilled onto the page. I think Blogrush is a waste of screen real estate, but it remains on my b...

Social Synergy

I am not a very social guy in real life. Regular readers can tell this through some of my posts. I don't like malls. I choose the booth at restaurants becaus...

Building Steam

Sometimes you have to put one foot in front of the other. That's it. Just focus on that and things will happen. Choose only the amount of daily projects you ...

Zen to Done - Finished

I like the concept of big rocks. I have a lot of project lists, but very limited time to do them. But cutting the active projects down to two or three, every...

Mac is a PC with Training Wheels

I refuse to watch any movies this guy is in. Don't know his name other than being the Mac guy. But Mac guy, you can take your overpriced Leopard machine and ...

Leave Me the F*** Alone

You have to learn this phrase. Some people won't hear kindness. Some people won't let you do your own thing. Some people don't know if they would just give y...

Finding a Direction

This blog has basically a mess of categories. The categories explain what is in them, but they tend to be all over the map. This is because this blog has rea...

Hope for the High School Dropouts

I think it is assumed that most pro bloggers quit a cush corporate job to become a blogger. Or they owned a business and then began blogging. Or that bloggin...

Money Lubricates the Mind

I thought of this post while taking a shower. Then I thought I wouldn't post it. It goes totally against the background I come from as a child. "Money i...

Pen to the Paper

This post was written last night in a three ring notebook with a gel pen. My favorite was once a fountain pen because they write faster. And I may be going b...

Zen to Done - Half Way Through

David Allen is a control freak. Sorry to say that, but the twists and turns of his system had me slacking. There was just too much. I don't have room for a t...

Lazy Day Blogging

Every now and then I need an easy day. I don't want to write the 1000 word essay, teacher. I don't want to check all of my sources to insure correctness. Not...

The PageRank Crisis and Jedi Mind Control

The title's a joke. My rank is falling. My rank is falling. If I hear that one more freaking time... Pagerank is nothing. Just a indicator. And I wonder if a...

Quick Zanox Overview

I never heard of Zanox until they released to the press that they had changed their website to add more information to help beginners on their way with affil...

Creating a Feed Reading Matrix

How you view your feeds depends on what you want them to do for you. I have used so many feed readers that did not agree with me. The first one I stuck with ...

Lists and Lists of Free Software

One thing I learned about people who use the internet. Everyone has their own threshold when it comes to how long they will spend beating their head against ...

Bookmarking Your Own Posts

I have been slowly working my through the free ebooks I have found lately. Right now I am in the middle of Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey. It is a res...

Black Hat SEO and Game Theory

I have done a few things in the past to make sites rank that would definitely qualify as being on the black hat side of things. I am done with that now. It's...

Optimizing for Hits You Already Get Part 2

Yesterday I said it is much more worthwhile to optimize your web site for the key phrases that show up in your statistics software. Today we will go over som...

Optimizing for Hits You Already Get

SEO this and SEO that. SEO's have a bad name, just like lawyers. But when you're the one that needs one, all the lawyer jokes get dropped and you hire the be...

"Can Do" Blinders

When it comes to developing, modifying designs, or hacking Wordpress plugins, I like to wait until I have a long period of time to do it. That means waiting ...

When the Industry's Behind, Start Running

I kind of fell into the job at AllAboutDoors.com. It happens to be one of those niches that if you do any kind of SEO or SEM, you are kicking everyone's ass....

How to Move Wordpress Quickly

You can take this tutorial with a grain of salt. I have always thought that the "right" way to do things takes a little bit too long. But then agai...

Moving Day

This is going to be a quick post of thing I will be doing this weekend, if possible. I am going to be moving this blog over the weekend. I will still try to ...

The "I've Found It" Post

Some things are still pretty hard to find online, no matter what Google, Yahoo, and Live say about perfecting their search engines. Or maybe it's because eve...

Google Sitemap Errors

I hate updating Wordpress, especially minor updates. Sometimes I forget to reactivate some plugins. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have some plugins just ...

The Traffic is Picking Up Slowly

About a month ago, I decided to cut out the B.S. and start writing every day, except for Sundays. I am not religious. That is just an agreement I have made w...

Google Just Gave Me the John Chow Treatment

Back in June, John Chow announced that he no longer ranked in Google for his own name. Now I am in the same situation, at least temporarily. If I search Goog...

Design by accident.

The alignment of the logo in the header was an accident. Didn't really mean to put it there, but I forgot to adjust the size of the top black bar. My name wa...

Hacking Wordpress Themes

I don't know if you can it being a perfectionist, but i can't really rest until a site I have does everything I want it to do. If it doesn't fit, it just doe...

16 Networks For Free Blog Traffic

I have been collecting these for a while. One site here, another site there. As I click through the items in my feed reader, I not only read the posts, but I...

Wordpress Plugin Hunting

I have been looking for a Wordpress plugin that will make the reading of tutorials that span more than one post easier. By default, Wordpress will sort posts...

Total Google Searches: 6181

I actually looked through my Google web history this morning. I finally started logging into Google before searching a little while ago. Before I was paranoi...

What's Holding Me Back From Blogging

What has been holding me back from blogging? Time and the wasting of it. I have yet to quit my day job and do this full time, I have two kids, and I am the o...

Ebooks, Ebooks, Stupid Ebooks

I have to admit that I got stuck in the Clickbank trap. Buying the next latest and greatest ebook on how to make thousands daily while I slept. And most turn...

Fixing Wordpress Feed Error Issues

I was adding Feedburner to my site today. I had use it once, switched templates and put off editing the template. Then I realized my feed had an error in it....

The Ultimate Custom Search Engine

I don't know if it would be for everyone, but for me yes. I have basically stopped bookmarking, because I end up with thousands and never find what I was loo...

The Correct 301 Redirect to a New Domain

  I have found a few different example on the web. The first one I used added a big, long, unnecessary query string to the url. The following one works ...

Google Adwords Campaign Optimizer

Just found this today in my Adwords account. Does it work? Yes. But you have to check everything out first. Of course, they optimize your keywords up to numb...

Developing in the Trenches

This is the usual trend in my blog. These periods where I don't post are when I am heavy into developing either sites or software and now that my day job alm...

Why use Filemaker 8.5?

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...

Mahalo

Mahalo Publishers Guide - Mahalo

Organizing for Freelancing

For three years I have played with this little internet marketing business on the side. For two years it has surpassed and continues to surpass my pay at my ...

Yoono vs StumbleUpon

For the person who wants to wander aimlessly through a bunch of sites generally related to his interests, StumbleUpon is great. Pick you topic and start Stum...

Installing PHP on Vista

I actually found the answer to this problem pretty quickly. The php installation software did not work for some reason on Windows Vista. The only thing I saw...

Installing Apache on Vista

This really sucked. No one gives the complete information anywhere, so I thought I would explain step by step what I went through to install Apache 2.2 on Ce...

ROI in Adwords

I had slacked off on using Adwords lately until this week. I got tired of it. It seemed so much of a hassle coming up with keywords. Not so much that but bef...

Drupal

drupal.org | Community plumbing

2006

Blogging Post Shooting Star

This whole keeping up with things on the internet can get addictive. Getting to a Digg story and being number 1351 to digg it is kind of deflating, but havin...

I'm Back

The existence of only one post on my blog is a result of Hostica.com's policy of shutting down accounts with the word of one email. Hostica is the worst host...