Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In January (2007), I wrote a howto for embedding Flash using JavaScript. The examples I gave were for SWFObject and Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) — the howto was for UFO. Now there’s a third viable option for embedding Flash using JavaScript. It’s called FlashReplace and was written by Robert Nyman. ...
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Occasionally the stars align and our favorite tech companies grant wishes. Today was one of those days. Not only did Apple finally fix the Leopard dock (and by fix I mean make it not butt-ugly), but Google just dropped a Gmail bombshell – IMAP support. I’ve kept a fifty dollar ...
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
FlexiScale is a new UK based on-demand computing service, similar to Nirvanix and the EC2/S3/SQS components of Amazon Web Services. While they all provide basic computing and storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, each company has targeted their pricing and service offerings towards different users. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides ...
Monday, July 30th, 2007
First, the bad news…. If you’re a frequent user of Sitening’s SERP Tracker, you may have noticed a lack of results over the past week. It looks like the sleeping giant has finally noticed us. If you’ve ever managed to get blocked, you may recognize this message: We’re sorry… … ...
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Today was the first official day of the conference, though lots of folks came early for the tutorials on Monday and Tuesday. Everything I’ve attended has at least been mildly interesting, and in some cases truly inspiring. Here are some important ideas that I wrote down but haven’t quite digested: ...
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
In my last post I talked about the PHP Growl notification class I wrote. A few readers emailed and asked to see a larger, working example of how to use the code, so I’ve written a plugin for Shaun Inman‘s popular Mint software. Growl Pepper will notify you whenever certain ...
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
The WebDU 2007 conference has been jam packed with excellent speakers, talented designers and fun events. Adobe has a very strong presence at this conference and many of the sessions touched base on many of their new and upcoming products like Apollo and CS3. I’m not allowed to talk about ...
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Last month I blogged about the release of PHP-AWS – our open source Amazon Web Services library. Today I want to highlight the S3 File Manager I recently added to the project. It makes debugging your S3 code much easier. Not only does it let you browse your bucket contents, ...
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
We recently added a PageRank alert service to the Sitening SEO Tools. Historically, the published PageRank for web pages in Google’s index was updated quarterly. While it doesn’t change a whole lot, an email or RSS alert is still handy if you’re tracking the SEO for your site. Since we ...
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Today I’m happy to announce a new open source project from Sitening. PHP-AWS is a collection of PHP classes that let you tap into the power of Amazon’s Web Services platform. This is the same codebase we used to build Basejumpr. It lets us offer our users unlimited storage space ...