I posted over at http://mashable.com/2008/07/22/3-ways-to-make-more-money-blogging/ but wanted to expand on the idea there in more detail.  The mashable article was linked to http://www.centernetworks.com/online-advertising-interaction which has a few more comments on the same topic: Advertising as monetization for blog content.
The author from centernetworks does a reasonable job of pitching his case - the trend, especially in [...]

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I was looking at hosting provider mosso.com this morning.  No particular reason - just saw an ad and clicked on it to poke around.  The pricing seemed reasonable, but because mosso is a ‘cloud computing’ sort of provider, I dug a bit further.  You’re charge $100/month for “10,000 compute cycles”.  Seemed a bit nebulous, so [...]

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What?  Another URL redirection service?  What’s the point?  Well, there’s a couple of points.
1) I hadn’t done one yet, and it looked like a simple yet difficult enough challenge to get me thinking about coding again.
2) I didn’t see anything that offered usage statistics.  I tried one that claimed to offer them, but it appeared [...]

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Two evenings ago I wrote a post about browsers still not having upload progress meters.  The blog post was voted up on reddit, and the server got slammed.  So slammed, in fact, that it was unusable for a few hours while I investigated the problem.  I didn’t know the post was on reddit, but I [...]

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It’s 2008.
Firefox 3 was just released - years of work, thousands of bugs fixed, new features thrown in.  No file upload progress meter.
IE7’s been out for awhile, but I don’t have a copy here handy to test.  My memory is telling me it doesn’t have one, or if it does, its very unobtrusive and not [...]

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I have to admit, I’ve never been in to ColdFusion.  I used it on a couple small projects back in the early 2000s (was just brought in to finish/fix existing code), but never really dug it.  Not that it was *bad*, but the early versions really smacked of watered-down development.  Everything’s a “tag”, so it’s [...]

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Exciting news - I’ll be presenting an introduction to Grails at the upcoming Codestock conference in Knoxville this August!  The site doesn’t have full details yet, but I was just notified this morning that my submission was accepted.  I’d actually submitted 3 options - my SOLR presentation, a “Continuous Integration with PHP” topic, and an [...]

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I just saw someone tweet that they’d received something in the post, and linked to a URL shortener service.  It redirected to Amazon.  Now I realize that Twitter is a pretty new service, but with mobile rising, I think we’ll see a need for short URLs more and more.  Couple that with the slightly extra [...]

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I had the pleasure of talking with Randal Schwartz about his latest passion - Seaside - over on WebDevRadio.com.  Check it out.
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I found a review of my brother’s Magento book earlier today.  Starting off with “However, I’m not really the type of person to give accolades unless something is absolutely stellar. As such, this post will primarily be about the shortcomings of the book” I wasn’t particularly surprised that there was more of a focus on [...]

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