ARCHIVE October, 2008

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FeedLines-Powered Site For Sale

July 30, 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.

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Product in a Day: FeedLines

July 29, 2008

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 [...]

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WebsiteGoodies.com on WordPress

July 24, 2008

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 [...]

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How DNS Poisoning Works

July 23, 2008

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.

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The Website Revenue Maximizer Kit

July 20, 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 [...]

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W3Counter Grows Again

July 17, 2008

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. [...]

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Open Calais PHP Class Updated

July 9, 2008

I’ve updated my Open Calais PHP Class with the entity types added in Calais’ last update. It now matches a bunch of new entertainment-related entities including movies, music and sports event names.
You can drop the new opencalais.php into the folder with either plugin for WordPress and they’ll be able to add the new types [...]