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Americans need SEO and Ayima is now taking orders 10 Apr 2009 | 01:04 am
I’m officially for hire. We’ll to clarify, not me as an individual but me and an incredible army of SEO’s on the other side of the pond. I’ve accepted a very generous offer to become a partner in Ayim...
What are the odds? 29 Jan 2009 | 05:28 am
Today I was perusing some stock photography for a website today and something looked very familiar about the background of this image: I jumped over to the local listing for The Morning Times in Rale...
If you get this in MySQL Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction 24 Oct 2008 | 12:57 pm
I ran into this crap when I needed to purge a massive number of records from a database. All you need to do is edit the timeout setting in your MySQL config file. On my Mac it is located at : /etc/my...
The Subprime Banking Crisis Explained 30 Sep 2008 | 04:02 am
This brilliant skit would be very funny if the current state of affairs weren’t so sad and frightening right now. My favorite part is “I like enhanced. I’d buy anything that had the word enhanced in i...
Open Finder in Current Folder from Terminal 12 Aug 2008 | 01:37 pm
Here is a super handy little trick that I know I’ll be using a lot from now on as I must have thought about it so many times in the past. You find yourself messing with some files in Terminal and the ...
A feature that Yahoo has that I wish Google had: 31 Jul 2008 | 01:13 am
Google sometimes I know better than you and want to see results without you thinking for me.
Ruby Could Replace my Python Crawler Pretty Soon 29 Jul 2008 | 07:30 am
One of my developers just sent me some truly incredible stats about Ruby 1.9 and its threading performance. 20 threads * 100,000 iterations Ruby 1.9 = 1.54 s. Ruby Enterprise = 3.01 s. JRuby 1.1.2...
I’m convinced Twitter needs a complete rewrite 4 Jul 2008 | 06:33 am
… from scratch. Yeah the performance is incredibly horrible and I really feel like I could take a small chunk of that $15 million and immediately make the performance rock, but I am starting to feel l...
Twitter is giving Rails a bad name 6 Jun 2008 | 07:24 am
Uggh. Rebuild it already. Its only a few actions. It wasn’t built for this kind of app. Python, C, Perl, whatever.
Google Crawling HTML Forms IS Harmful to Your Rankings 4 Jun 2008 | 06:39 am
A couple of months ago Google officially announced it would be “exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages“. I imagine more than a few SEO’s were baffled by this decision as was I but ...
