With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three distinct products in the next six months — the hosted, individual service; a white-label private instance for designers, service providers, and networks of many websites; and a white-label version of the entire service for resale. (more…)
I always recommend people stay away from GoDaddy when they’re looking for shared hosting. It’s not their primary business and they have way too many customers. The result is packed, locked down servers missing key features, and poor support from inexperienced technicians.
But at least they didn’t bungle up the VPS product like 1&1 did. (more…)
What better endorsement can PHP as a language and symfony as an enterprise framework for that language get than Yahoo! building the new delicious service with them. That’s the news from the official symfony blog, where they also note Yahoo! will be contributing their bug fixes and extensions back to the symfony community.
SitePoint just released their Ruby on Rails book as a free download. Grab a copy while it’s available.
Recently I’ve been working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time on my desktop. While my primary IDE has changed to Visual Studio (even for PHP with VS.PHP), the rest of my development environment is mostly the same as it’s been since December. My projects are growing in code size, and the amount of code I reuse is increasing, so it makes sense to develop locally instead of directly on a server over SSH like I used to in previous years. It’s also become inconvenient to have a single web root for testing the sites locally since URLs relative to the root (starting with /) won’t work if each project needs to be a subdirectory of localhost. (more…)
I’m pretty sure Amazon has hired some psychics and hooked them up to the internet. Today I followed a link to Beautiful Code, the website of a newly published book about how great modern programmers think. I decided it looked interesting, and clicked the link to O’Reilly’s store, where the book is $44.95. Wondering if it was cheaper on Amazon, I went to my browser’s address bar and typed http://amazon.com, where the first content below the navigation was this book being recommended to me. Coincidence? The homepage seems to be recommending based on the last item I viewed, which was The Old New Thing yesterday… still a little freaky.
Dot-com 2.0 (a bubble I think will eventually burst) has brought with it a slew of websites focusing on organizing, categorizing, and rating information. There’s del.icio.us for categorizing bookmarks, digg for rating news, stumbleupon for rating websites, tadalist for organizing todo lists, and an endless list more. What was keeping me from using these sites regularly was the need to visit each to keep track of my own activity. I decided over the weekend to solve that problem by creating a WordPress plugin to bring them all to my blog. I’m tentatively calling it “Activity Stream”, and you can see the initial version in my sidebar. (more…)
When I tried to upgrade AdWatcher a few months ago, I ended up with a copy I couldn’t log in to, couldn’t roll back, and couldn’t start a fresh install on since the old database wouldn’t match the new version. (more…)
It crashed the first time I ran it. It has its own UI; no Aero title bar, menus, buttons or scroll bars. I can’t close it by double clicking in the upper left corner of my screen. It’s too thick with its font antialiasing. But it runs on Windows, which means I don’t need a Browsercam account to do quick design tests. Safari for Windows Beta released today.
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