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Open Source Life Streaming

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The Year Affiliates Saved Christmas, Really?

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Yes Virginia, There are Businesses Thriving in This Tough Economy.

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Affiliate Marketing Annoyances: CJ's Reports

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Webdev: How to Set Up a Sandbox Server in OS X

Last week I wrote about the benefits of setting up a local web development environment, or what developers call a "sandbox". In web developer speak, a sandbox is a server owned by an individual developer where he or she can do all development and testing without affecting anyone else (or be affected). Once changes are developed and tested,...
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WebDev: The Case for a Local Development Environment

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Subversion Enlightenment

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Website Performance Tools: How I Installed Memcached

We should all be lucky enough to have performance problems due to heavy website traffic. "Plan for success" is one of my favorite cliches, and in that spirit, I'm trying to get/stay ahead of the curve on a website that's growing in popularity, BUMPzee. It not so much BUMPzee's popularity put it in jeopardy of performance issues, it's...
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Ruby on Rails and PHP MVC frameworks

A few months ago, I got hooked on the concept of MVC (model-view-controller) frameworks as a development platform. The ultra-chic framework right now, helped by the Web 2.0 craze and the limelight of a few killer apps, like 43things, is Ruby on Rails. I spend a good month digging into Ruby on Rails, learned the framework and the essential...
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Are Performance Incentives Working Against You?

This commentary questions conventional thinking in affiliate marketing. Real-world -affiliate experience has shaken my firmly-set beliefs on this subject that I gained from 6 years on the "other side". It's interesting to me that I had not ever heard this argument before recently, never mind participate in it. It just seems so obvious...
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MacJournal 3.1.2 -- a software review

It has always bothered me at how difficult it can be to do things on a computer. This device that has been designed and refined into the ultimate productivity tool, just as often gets in the way. In my work as a website publisher, there are many things that must be done to keep websites up and running, fresh with content, and to keep a...
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OSX Tiger Purrs

I'm a Mac user. I don't know if that sort of statement surprises people any longer, but it still surprises me to hear myself say it. I have been a "switchter" for a year and a half now and I really enjoy the combination of a very well designed graphical OS with Unix under the covers. I spend a good portion of my time in a Unix command line...
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