Posts made in July 2008
The script alone has sold three copies in the first day, not bad for a few hours’ work. I’ve gotta say it feels good to make money somewhere other than Visitor Boost, which is a nightmare to manage and never feels like stable income despite its performance.
This is my first attempt at building a simple product of my own to sell, rather than a service or subscription. I watch the SitePoint Marketplace on an almost daily basis, and I see so many simple, turnkey sites sold and resold on a consistent basis. While the scripts behind these sites may seem simple [...]
Follow Ham was created in one afternoon as an exercise in machine learning using the Twitter API.
I just moved Website Goodies, my oldest site at 12 years, over to WordPress as its CMS, replacing dozens of poorly written, exploitably bad PHP files and even worse databases. Now I can manage everything from one place and, perhaps, even give the site some new content. It’s still popular as far as my sites [...]
FeedLines went from idea to finished product with multiple customers in a single day.
Since 2004, PicVault has hosted over a quarter million images and served them over half a billion times.
This is the first explanation of how DNS poisoning attacks work that I could make sense of without first reading a book on DNS. Interesting stuff: Reliable DNS Forgery in 2008: Kaminsky’s Discovery.
Website Goodies was my first personal website, originally created to share HTML tutorials 14 years ago.
Since 2005, Visitor Boost has provided affordable, easy to use advertising to over 20,000 customers.
I was the expert editor for the Web Site Revenue Maximizer, released by publisher SitePoint in June 2008.
