Monthly Archives: November 2007

WordPress Drop Technorati For Incoming Links

WordPress has a feature in it which shows activity surrounding your particular blog, named “Incoming Links”. For a long time, WordPress has been using the services of blog search engine and aggregator Technorati to deliver this feature. Using Technorati was … Continue reading

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Free Facebook Application Hosting Provided by Joyent

As many people would be aware, Facebook has become some what of a phenomenon of late. Over the last 12 months, the site has seen growth that most internet companies could only dream of. If that wasn’t enough, in May … Continue reading

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Spinning Subtraction

I recently wrote about a set of visualisations by Lokesh Dhakar that I thought were fantastic. While the visual representations of the coffee and baseball pitches were excellent, I really enjoyed the new design that Lokesh has put together. Without … Continue reading

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Google Advertising Observation

As I mentioned recently, I’ve been running some simple tests surrounding Google Adsense colour palette performance. The results of that test reinforce what others have previously said about Google Adsense, which in short says that blended or complementary colours out … Continue reading

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Twitter Lost My Tweets

Over the weekend, I signed up for a Twitter account and that process had a few hiccups which were entirely my fault. After sorting that out, I started posting items into Twitter using the web site and everything seemed to … Continue reading

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Thank You Twitter

Over the weekend, I signed up for a shiny new account with Twitter. Without realising it at the time, I had actually typed my username incorrectly and missed a t out of Lattimore. Being a bit of a pedant at … Continue reading

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Twittering

Curiosity has gotten the better of me, I’ve signed up for an account with Twitter. When Twitter first started to get some press, I couldn’t see the benefit of it and it seemed like nothing more than another attention grabbing … Continue reading

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Google Adsense Theme Performance

Over the last few months, I have been experimenting with Google Adsense and using the channels feature to measure the impact said changes. There are volumes of information on tuning Google Adsense for higher performance on the internet, so I … Continue reading

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Django, Initial Data & Many To Many Tables

Django provides functionality through manage.py to manage the database that you’re using. The various utility commands range from building your database using syncdb command to tearing it down using flush. The functionality to manage the database through Django is great, … Continue reading

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Internet Scale

After launching ifdebug on the 3rd November, it’s only taken Googlebot and Yahoo! Slurp an amazing four days to crawl and index the site. Many moons ago, people would report having their sites online for literally months before being crawled … Continue reading

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