Reading many forums, IRC channels and usenet’s I see many people bragging about how they can code without the use of an IDE. Although it is important for a programmer to have the ability to be able to program without such aids as an IDE to be more productive an IDE is a very important tool.
The Importance Of A Good IDE
September 25th, 2007How Many Incompetent Companies Can 1 Person Deal With
September 25th, 2007I am getting somewhat fed up of dealing with incompetent companies. 10 Weeks ago I was made redundant so as anyone would I started sorting out my finances. 1 company I have a credit card with is Barclay Card. Read the rest of this entry »
The Incompetent Data Centers
September 24th, 2007This morning I received my first letter from an American Debt collector. The debt collectors in question are Amer Assist who are acting on behalf of Layered Technologies.
If you are not aware Layered Tech provide dedicated servers. I did (about 18 months ago if not longer) have a dedicated server with them but not all was plain sailing. Read the rest of this entry »
The Importance Of DMOZ
September 24th, 2007Many people question the importance of DMOZ. Lets go back a few years. Google used to hold DMOZ with great esteem, they used to collect the database on a regular basis and sites that were DMOZ listed generally achieved a better SERP’s placement (Search Engine Results Page).
The End Is Nigh
September 24th, 2007Although it has been announced for some time a lot of people have as of yet to upgrade to PHP 5. The majority of people of course are at the complete mercy of their web host.
If your host has not upgraded yet you should of course take some preparation into ensuring that you will be prepared for when it does arrive. Read the rest of this entry »
DMOZ SCAMMED ME
August 27th, 2007Ok maybe they did not but I have started seeing posts from people claiming that they have.
The people who claim they have been or are being scammed by DMOZ get a letter claiming if they do not receive $x within a certain time period then their listing will be deleted from the DMOZ open directory. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting seconds to minutes and seconds
August 26th, 2007Some time ago I was in IRC and someone asked how to convert x amount of seconds into seconds and minutes. This is somewhat of an easy task and here is a simple function which can do exactly that (please note no effort was made so it would work with anything more than an hour):-
function sec_to_min($sec='')
{
if (ctype_digit((string)$sec))
{
$seconds = $sec % 60;
$minutes = ($sec-$seconds)/60;
$min_sec = $minutes.':'.str_pad($seconds, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
return $min_sec;
}
else
{
return '0:00';
}
}
Ways in which this could be enhanced:-
- Make it more aware of whether any minutes exist.
- Enhance it so that it can also work with hours, days etc.
Is Domain Tasting Wrong
August 26th, 2007I have decided to cover domain tasting as my first post. It is a subject I feel very strongly about and would like to tell you why.
So what is domain tasting. Domain tasting is the practice of registering domain names and parking them, if they do not achieve $x amount of revenue within the first 5 days the domain is dropped and returned to the registry. For domain tasters to make a profit they have to make roughly $0.10 in the first five days on the domain name (going on a domain price of $6.95 per domain). If the domain does not make this money then the domain tasterswill drop the domain name and return it to the registry. The domain tasters either have an agreement with the registrar to ensure that they do not incur any fees or they use a registrar that will allow you to drop a domain without any questions (a registrar is not charged for a domain that has been dropped within the first 5 days).
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