Category Archives: Services

Django Friendly Hosting

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

If you’re about to purchase hosting for your Django application, everything you’ll need to make a good decision is in one place at Django Friendly. Ryan Berg is the man behind Django Friendly and put together the site as a … Continue reading →

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Google Account Signin With CAPTCHA

Posted on March 5, 2008 by

Tonight I was presented with a Google login page which was different in a few ways: size and shape of the control were different instead of using an in page control, it took me to a completely new page required … Continue reading →

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Google Reader Duplicate Item Improvement

Posted on January 27, 2008 by

One of the features that I love about RSS, is that it allows users to keep their finger on the pulse of certain topics very easily. As some people may know, I quite like the Python web framework Django and … Continue reading →

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Akismet Losing Its Mojo?

Posted on January 14, 2008 by

I have long praised the free spam fighting service Akismet but yesterday a horribly obvious spam comment wasn’t filtered which is very unusual. I’ll include the comment here so people can see what I’m referring to: Name: Armond Site: http://groups.google.com/group/otekal/web/free-bestiality-sex-stories … Continue reading →

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You Know You’re Popular When

Posted on December 29, 2007 by

Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading →

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Google Alerts Getting Smarter

Posted on December 24, 2007 by

Google Alerts lets the user define keyword lists and phrases, which when found by Google while crawling and indexing web sites – will send a user a notification about that particular occurrence. Historically, it always appeared as though the technology … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics & URL Rewriting Caveats

Posted on December 13, 2007 by

As the internet has matured and web sites have aged and expanded over the years, it has now become common place for web site owners to restructure their web sites to increase the sites accessibility and search engine effectiveness. During … Continue reading →

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WordPress Drop Technorati For Incoming Links

Posted on November 28, 2007 by

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

Posted on November 27, 2007 by

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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Twitter Lost My Tweets

Posted on November 20, 2007 by

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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