By mariya | Published:
October 9, 2009
Sometimes I’m stupid enough to subscribe to some online marketing newsletter. I got two this week from different “marketers” whose content was almost identical. They went something like this:
Want to make money off your blog?? I make $100000000 a week off my blog! Here’s How! Click here for this magic formula! Drive Traffic! Make dollars!
And [...]
By mariya | Published:
October 6, 2009
First of all, thanks to everyone who read and commented on the original post. If nothing else, I got some (angry) tips for how to improve my Drupal experience when I do have to use it. It reminds me of this bash.org gem: Start the sentence with “Linux is gay because it can’t do XXX [...]
By mariya | Published:
October 5, 2009
Need to test your site in multiple versions of Internet Explorer? I just downloaded DebugBar and was beyond impressed. With a couple clicks, you can open a url in a single tabbed window with all IE versions 5.5 through 8. Grab it here.
Two years ago I endorsed Multiple IE, but unfortunately they’ve dropped the ball [...]
By mariya | Published:
October 4, 2009
Edit: First followup posted.
Are you choosing a Content Management System for your next site? Allow me to throw in my two cents against Drupal. In theory, Drupal is a CMS that lets you control your site out of the box. In practice, it’s a nightmare to configure and maintain.
I recognize that Drupal might work for [...]
By mariya | Published:
October 1, 2009
What embarrassing shortcomings do you have as a coder? I find that I often need reference material when dealing with:
File permissions (chmod)
Regular expressions (Apache rewrite rules, Ruby regexes etc)
Does anyone else feel the same way? Do you have any good tutorials that can rid me of these handicaps once and for all?