Time to tweak the Honeypot
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 1st May, 2008
Well, I took advantage of the fact that I had nowhere to go for my break today and spent some time optimising this blog. You’ll notice it’s much zippier now and that’s thanks to some caching I’ve added. Here are some new plugins I’m using:
Bad Behaviour: Deny automated spambots access to your PHP-based Web site.
Google [...]
Local Searches
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 17th Feb, 2007
A few days ago I was looking for the phone number of a local pizza company here in the IOM called “Home Run Pizza”. I tried that as a search phrase in my favourite search engine and the details came back as:
Home Run Pizza
903 W Alameda St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
5059848494
Gah! Don’t you just hate [...]
Inside Myspace
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 25th Jan, 2007
Here’s an excellent article called Inside Myspace by David F. Carr. It traces the steps MySpace had to go through as they grew from a small website to a social network with technology that needs to handle almost 40 billion page requests a month. The article talks about the architectural decisions that were taken as [...]
Feedburner feed adjusted
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 7th Jan, 2007
Now that the new blog is up and running, I’ve adjusted the RSS feed to be identical to the old blog. The only way I could have managed to do this is because I’m using the most excellent FeedBurner to serve my feeds. FeedBurner is a website that contains an excellent collection of tools for [...]
Attract Search Engine Traffic
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 10th Dec, 2006
Came across a good post on how to improve search engine traffic to your website. It breaks down what you need to do into three steps:
Make a List of Targeted Keyword Phrases
Create an Optimized Page for Each Keyword Phrase on Your List
Obtain Quality Backlinks to Each of Your Pages
The first two are [...]
Improve WiFi Reception
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 10th Dec, 2006
Came across a great article today outlining a number of methods to improve WiFi performance. Here’s some ideas to improve your reception:
Put large furniture along the walls of your rooms
Minimise mirrors
Put your router at some central point of your house
Keep antennas away from power cables
Read all about it, as well as [...]
