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xcache Revisited 19 Feb 2009 | 05:41 pm
In an earlier post, I complained about xcache 1.2.1 doing nothing but bad things to my server. I ended up moving to eAccelerator for a while instead. Recently, I moved to some better hardware to handl...
SEO in a world where the “SE” doesn’t “O” 3 Feb 2009 | 09:04 am
I spend a ton of time working on SEO aspects of sites I work on. I’m also a pre-release team member over at vBSEO, a 3rd party SEO software add-on for vBulletin forums. Today, I question why I do this...
IE6 AJAX hang on readyState 3 21 Jan 2009 | 07:10 am
I recently ran into a problem that took me a few days to find a work around for. Running a basic AJAX POST, IE6 would hang up on readyState 3 for 200 seconds, throw an “Unspecified Error“, and then fi...
Freelance Programming Feedback 18 Aug 2008 | 05:11 pm
This post contains comments from people whom I’ve done custom work for in the WordPress, vBulletin, and vBSEO worlds. I’ve asked those that I’ve worked with before to leave a few words here about my q...
WordPress Permalinks on IIS with ISAPI_Rewrite 6 Jun 2008 | 04:50 am
I’ve run WordPress here on my CentOS box for nearly 4 years and am quite familiar with the software. Recently, I had a client on a Windows system request a blog be added to their web store. Their webs...
Dreading Tax Season 5 Feb 2008 | 05:02 pm
Every year around this time, I start getting nervous. The fear of getting audited constantly crosses my mind. No accountants around me have a clue about internet marketing. It really is a special nich...
Rand() isn’t Random 29 Nov 2007 | 10:00 am
If you use Microsoft SQL 2000, you’ve probably at one point had to pull random results. The built in rand() function simply doesn’t work. It gives you a random value the first time, and every time aft...
New Toy for the Office 22 Nov 2007 | 08:33 pm
Christmas is coming, and so is the end of the year. I need to spend some money on my business so i don’t get taxed to hell like I did last year. So, I upgraded my office computer. I’m currently … Cont...
Getting the Big “Oops” from a Server 15 Nov 2007 | 06:15 pm
I had some minor problems with xCache recently that ended up causing segfaults in my apache install. I had left my SSH putty session open last night and didn’t check my laptop before I trecked into th...
xCache is More Trouble than it’s Worth 15 Nov 2007 | 10:29 am
Two servers and a just about every option variation later, I’ve officially given up on xCache. The first round of problems involved caching config files and forms that needed to be updated all the tim...
