Found this on AListApart.com
August 20th, 2007
Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
It was amazingly valuable for debugging JS.
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Safari also has a javascript debugger. You need to enable the Debug menu in safari, which can be done by typing the following into terminal (make sure safari is closed):
% defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
Then relaunch safari, and from the debug menu you can open a js console.
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Amazing.
Free Tip on Verifying PHP Scripts sans Test Server
July 13th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
From your Uncle Leroy …
Use:
php -l *script_name*
..to test the syntax of your scripts.
Obviously, you want to unit test all code, but in a pinch, if some piece of code is difficult to setup the test environment, at least run a sytax check on it. Or use Eclipse with its syntax checking/highlighting turned on.
www = Wild Wild West
June 25th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
www - does it mean World Wide Web OR Wild Wild West? It seems awfully wild out here sometimes. I read articles all the time and its so unbridled - the things people say, the types of websites out there. Its definitely exploiting freedom of speech. I want people to have that freedom - but people sometimes implement zero restraint. Anyway, I think “wild wild west” fits “www” more appropriately.
Explanation of SEO to clients
June 21st, 2007[editor: this post is a condensed version of an email written by Michael Provencher of Sators.com for a client and outlines SEO so well, we decided to post it so that we can direct future clients to it for reading]
[Here] are some things I know as far as SEO. The PAID route, means looking into Google Adwords, Yahoo! ads, etc, etc. Paying for search engine placement. That could be a direction they go, which will mean a little bit of research and communication with them to determine what they are looking to spend, etc.
The “unpaid” route, which still means they pay us, is what we can organically do for them: Read the rest of this entry »
Turn around time using content categorization
May 14th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
Unbelievable! I used adlab.microsoft.com to test the content categorization of a new client. Yesterday, Sunday, the site hadn’t yet experienced a full upgrade of incorporating raw content into the pages and was strictly flash based and their website didn’t have any recognizable content categorization. By today, Monday morning, I had submitted new sitemaps to all the major search engines and incorporated all that raw content (div hidden) and they are now ranked 23% in their content category of choice. Amazing. For more information on how to get these results for your website …contact us!
Sitemaps and the urls used to process them
May 13th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
There is evidence that even though they are a pain the in neck, sitemaps are a valuable tool. In fact, I just used the sitemap on moreover.com to find out the url for submitting a sitemap.
And in order that this blog be used as a reference for both myself and others, here is a list of locations for submitting sitemaps to Yahoo!, Google, MoreOver.com and Ask.com:
- http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=<URL_HERE>
- http://api.moreover.com/ping?u=<URL_HERE>
- https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites
- http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
- http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=<URL_HERE>
Great Read for Software Team leaders and workers
May 8th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
If you lead a software team or work on a team, you need to read this article
Customer Service
April 16th, 2007Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing nearly two decades, drag-racing for 12 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
It is mostly about Customer Service. What is? Software. It’s all about customer service in fact. I mean, you build a User Interface so that your users can interface with it. And if that interface doesn’t make sense (BTW, that was your first line of customer service) then they call or email you (your second line of customer service). In fact, all software serves, and most of the time, serves its human customer. So you have to have people skills and a heart to serve, or you aren’t going to make it. If you only love the engineering side of it, then get into mechanical or some sort of physical engineering …software is for people.