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Project Euler, An Exercise In Exploration
Some time ago I stumbled onto a math based problem solving site for programmers named Project Euler. The Project Euler site describes itself as: Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just … Continue reading
Django Internationalisation (i18n) Statistics
The Python web framework Django supports internationalistaion (i18n) for nearly 30 different languages already. While reviewing the changesets flowing through the Django source repository, I often notice amendments to the internationalisation code and it got me thinking about how ‘complete’ … Continue reading
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Tagged django, google, google app engine, i18n, internationalisation
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Ask.com Deceptive Advertising Practices Is A Grab For Cash
While doing a little research this morning, I stumbed onto a paid advertisement within Google for Ask.com, informing me that I could booking BreakFree hotels & resorts from within the Australian localised Ask.com portal. Being the curious kind of person, … Continue reading
Improve Your Site Using Live Search Webmaster Center
Virtually every webmaster has heard of Google Webmaster Tools and use it regularly to check on the health of their site, unfortunately very few know of Live Search Webmaster Center which complements Microsoft Live Search. Recently I wrote about the … Continue reading
Google Analytics Mostly Streamlined Login Process
This week Google Analytics received a small upgrade – specifically related to the login process. Until now, no matter how often you use Google Analytics, as a user you were forced to login every time you returned to the site. … Continue reading
Live Search Webmaster Centre Drastically Improved
In the last few days, the Live Search Webmaster blog have posted about two significant improvements to the webmaster center, how Live Search crawls your site and more detailed backlink information. Live Search Webmaster Center now supports the following four … Continue reading
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Tagged live search webmaster center, microsoft, microsoft live, microsoft live search
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HTML <title> Elements Play Significant Role In Search Engine Optimisation
Approximately six months ago, I mentioned that I was going to conduct a small test regarding the impact that optimising the HTML <title> element has from a search engine optimisation stand point. In December when I wrote that, #if debug … Continue reading
Bitbucket, Hosted Mercurial Source Control
Bitbucket is the latest project by Jesper Nøhr. If the name looks familiar, it’s because I wrote about a Jesper in March when he used Django and Python as a rapid development environment for an indy advertising product named Indiego … Continue reading
Google Analytics User Management Simplified
Google have simplified the account management interface for Google Analytics. Previously when adding a user into the system, you needed to provide: an email address of a a valid Google Account first name surname access level (administrator/reporting) It appears that … Continue reading
Sun Java & Bundling Google Toolbar
Today the automatic update kicked in for Java on my notebook, which it does quite regularly. I love the fact that different products implement a relatively unobtrusive upgrade to their software to keep it up to date, I know if … Continue reading →