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 is a recommendation service for Twitter users. It scans their followers and employs machine learning techniques to classify those other accounts as “spam” or “ham” in order to recommend which to follow back.
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 [...]
A free image hosting service launched in 2004, PicVault provides automatic thumbnailing and several types of galleries. The site has served nearly a billion images.
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.
WebsiteGoodies.com was my first domain — originally registered through Network Solutions at internic.org in 1996, with all of my saved allowance; I was 14 at the time. Initially the site was a set of HTML tutorials I wrote to share what I had learned. As I learned basic JavaScript and Perl programming, I developed free [...]
I was the expert editor for the Web Site Revenue Maximizer, released by technical book publisher SitePoint in June 2008.
I’m a little late mentioning it, but I was an expert reviewer for SitePoint’s latest kit, the Website Revenue Maximizer. I got my name in the credits, a mention and screenshot of W3Counter in the appendix, and a few other bonuses for myself. It’s a huge binder and CD with information, forms and reference for [...]
It’s been about 7 months since W3Counter‘s last hardware upgrade, adding a beefy dual-processor dual-core server to the mix. Now, 6,000 new active accounts later, the site’s slowing down during the day again, which means there’s not enough memory and IO bandwidth to go around. I just ordered two more powerful servers from SoftLayer. One [...]
