Month: August 2007

You can’t buy talent, but you can try.

After working on several large scale PHP projects, and writing a lot of PHP code, I’ve discovered a number of tools that improve code quality, streamline rollouts, and generally make life as a PHP developer a whole lot easier. Many of these tools probab

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaki

Every author I know gets asked the same question: How do you write a book?. It’s a simple question, but it causes unexpected problems. On the one hand, it’s nice to have people interested in something I do. If I told people I fixed toasters for a l

A recent column on Zdnet, by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, discussed the reasons why people won’t change from a retail operating system to a free one. The implication is that Linux can’t even give away their software. That sounds pretty dire. Windows retails fo

Today I arrived on the Death Star to take command. It’s incredible. It has everything you need to take over the universe. Reactor Cores. Trash Compactors. Prison Cells. Fighter Bays. Even a Day Care Center. I swear the hydrolics in the doors need to be le

Whether you know it or not, that compact disc you just copied to your MP3 player is only partially there. With the CD on its way out and computer files taking over as the primary means of hearing recorded music, the artificial audio of MP3s is quickly bec

Wizards of the Coast is announcing at GenCon today that it will release the 4th Edition of its category-leading Dungeons and Dragon roleplaying game in 2008, the first full new edition in eight years. The three core books will be released next summer on

4E: What we know – updated!

Combine the dynamic, visually rich experience of a video game with the fun and intense social interaction of a face-to-face, pen and paper game.

Attorneys for the Grammy award winning heavy metal band Metallica filed a lawsuit yesterday against Harmonix and Activision (who recently acquired Red Octane) for copyright infringement. The suit accuses the three gaming companies of illegally distributin

I’ve noticed this evening that my oldest, Reese, has discovered Google. At first this doesn’t sound bad, but it can be and I’ll explain why. It’s my fault really. Sunday night, she was getting her school supplies ready for a new school year. She has a thr

Here are some simple web buttons which you may download and use however you like. I created them all using Adobe Photoshop. Just click whichever button to download the .psd file for that button and enjoy!

# I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. # My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food… She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. # Someone stole all my c

As previously stated to the point of ad nausium, Network solutions has overinflated pricing for their unsuspecting customers and now they have added Monster Commerce to this mess. I think that the choice for Monster Commerce in joining the Network solutio

It’s a strange fate for a brand that used to represent the government-designated domain name monopolist, but Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell says helping small-business owners build up a Web presence is high-growth industry that has his company turni

Coming Spring 2008

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My problem is that the entire checkout process is based off one page with multiple javascript function calls. When using the onLoad tags, the page trys to run the analytics script at every stage of the checkout process. When we implement the code into the

I want to add Google Analytics to the checkout process on an e- commerce site and have it track the different steps of checkout as goals and so on. However, as the cart is currently developed, it uses the file ‘/checkout.aspx’ for every step of checkout.

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

Welcome to the hot sands of Athas! Athas Reborn is built upon the foundations of the popular Dark Sun Online. This persistent world incorporates vast exploration, roleplaying and pvp aspects to bring to you a vibrant living world filled with friends and f

Popular Online CSS Tools and Generators

Learn the secrets of search engine optimization at the next Network Solutions SEO Seminar.

Much of CSS is pretty straightforward and, I suspect, quite easy for most people to grasp. There’s font styles, margin, padding, color and what not. But there’s a wall that people will run into… that point where a number of key elements need to come tog