Dan Grossman | 2006 December

Google AdWords vs. Yahoo! Search Marketing vs. MSN AdCenter

December 31, 2006

The end of the year is the perfect time to stop and take a “big picture” look at just how much I’ve spent on search advertising, what that money has bought me, and what changes I should make in the new year. While I purchase advertising for my websites from many search engines, ad [...]

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Quick AJAX Demo Screencast

December 30, 2006

I have been looking for an excuse to try out Camtasia, so I recorded some of the AJAX effects W3Counter makes use of. Symfony provides simple functions to wrap Prototype and Script.aculo.us that make complex combination effects simple. Read the full post for the short screencast.

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The Google Interviews

December 28, 2006

I’ve just finished an hour and a half on the phone doing two interviews for a software engineer intern position at Google. Those were definitely the most interesting, challenging and enjoyable job interviews I’ve ever done.

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W3Counter 4.0: AJAX in Symfony is a Breeze

December 27, 2006

I’ve gotta say, reproducing the AJAX effects from W3Counter within symfony was much easier than expected. It took only a few minutes to master and the code practically wrote itself.

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W3Counter 4.0: HTML & CSS Bar Charts

December 24, 2006

I was at an early Christmas party with family most of the day so only accomplished one thing: bar charts. I’d like to finish this first report screen before moving on, as a lot of what I write will be reused, and it desperately needed a graph of some sort.

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W3Counter 4.0: Getting Started

December 23, 2006

As you might’ve guessed from the comments in the screenshot in my Development Environment post, I was setting up to start this project.

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W3Counter 4.0 Development Log: Background

December 23, 2006

For the next month or two, my primary project will be the downloadable version of W3Counter. The current version is available as a hosted subscription service only, while this will be packaged up so it can be unzipped on any shared hosting environment with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1.
I have a couple reasons to [...]

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PHP Development Environment

December 20, 2006

There have been four phases to the evolution of my PHP development environment. First, I used notepad, FTP and a shared hosting account. WS_FTP to be exact, made by IPSwitch which once sent me a free t-shirt for sending in a testimonial for their website.
Once I took on a job working on a PHP [...]

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Evaluating Myself As a Developer

December 20, 2006

I just replied to a thread at SitePoint about evaluating yourself as a developer. I thought it was an interesting question, and in my response gave some opinions on my experience at Drexel University with their coop program and how I’m using that to evaluate myself. Take a look over there for the full [...]

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