It’s been an interesting day at RustyBrick. We find out that Square Peg Web Design borrowed a site we designed and built for their web design portfolio. You can read that story over here. We learn a few more interesting things about this company but the real shocker is that… This “custom web site design”
Well, I thought I ordered barry.me from GoDaddy. Over an hour later, I just got this email: The following domain name has failed to be registered: BARRY.ME Error: BARRY.ME: cannot register – already registered We will evaluate this error and retry the registration if appropriate. If we are unable to successfully register the domain name,
I just ordered barry.ME from GoDaddy. The .ME domains just went on sale, so make sure to secure your domains. I assume I will 301 redirect barry.ME to this site. In the mean time, off to buy more .ME domains. Go get them…
Yesterday, someone asked me if the Search Engine Roundtable‘s traffic is down. I said no, why? He explained that the Alexa chart showed a decline in traffic. I decided to plot that graph with true Google Analytics data, to see if there was a decline. Here it is: The bolder blue line is Google Analytics
So I got these ads on The Search Engine Roundtable but I am having problems with one. The Google ads have this hidden pixel for DoubleClick tracking purposes. It is a 1×1 pixel. The 1×1 pixel, 3 out of 8 times, messes up the ad layout. What do I mean? Well, when the Google ad
From a coding perspective, this is pretty wild. This guy coded Super Mario in JavaScript. Well, it is not the whole game, but it is a lot of it. The compressed version of the JS code is 14kb. Here’s an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file. There are no external
A RustyBricker sent this to me, Browsershots. It basically asks you for a web address and then it will capture screen captures of your site in dozens and dozens of browsers with dozens of operating systems and dozens of other variables like screen resolutions. The Search Engine Roundtable doesn’t look too bad in Epiphany 2.20
Many of you know I live in the wonderful world of web programming. Yea, 90% or more of our (RustyBrick) monies come from building out web based applications for specific needs. Along with that comes writing software that bills, charges, refunds, etc money from users automatically. Now, as you read this, and seeing the title
One of the RB’ers told me they have been using DejaClick, a Firefox extension, for automating test scenarios on the web sites. Basically, you have the tool record your clicks and actions. You then save that to a file and you can play it again. For example, if I want to make sure my contact
Shawn Hogan at DigitalPoint Forums explained some of the trouble server people have to go through with servers and hardware breaking. Oh, how I can relate. I am exhausted… Sequence of events… The cluster lost one of the blades today for the first time ever (this blade is the 2nd master DB server). The primary
