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One URL per page

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

A few weeks ago I was working on a web site that wasn’t getting as much attention from Google as the site owner expected.  One (of many) issues was that for every “interesting” page (those that had link-worthy material), there were at least three URLs for that same content. Depending on how the user navigated […]

A/B Technique for Web Application Deployment

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

This description of my “A/B technique for web application deployment” was transcribed from audio, so it less tight, more verbose than my normal prose. I chose to post it in rough form, rather than leave it on the “back burner” until an unknown future date when I have time to rewrite it. I first explained […]

Lots of TextDrive downtime

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

I apologize for the site downtime today, to my huge audience of loyal readers (er… both of you). It turns out that my new ISP, TextDrive, has been having a lot of downtime on the shared hosting machine my sites are on… frequent freezes/crashes, exacerbated by long delays in noticing and recovering. Apparently it is […]

Overwhelming blog spam, and Thunderbird vs. POPFile

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Kylecordes.com has become popular with blog comment spammers recently; though because I have moderation on, so far only I have seen the spam (in the Wordpress admin interface), it hasn’t reached the public site.
In the last week, the quantity has grown enormously, to the extent no longer practical to moderate manually. I’ve installed Akismet, and […]