I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt. The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws…
It’s been very interesting to me to see how some folks are re-evaluating their work/life balance in the wake of reading Isaacson’s Steve…
Welcome to my sixth (semi) annual year in review post. I missed posting a review for 2010 so I’ve added the 2010 stats into the table below as well and I’ve added in the numbers for 2002 and 2003 as well. It was a good year for me both personally and professionally. My daughter is…
I recently received this email: Hello I am and I am a member of some financial communities. I just visited your site (alexking.org) and I am a frequent reader of your site. The articles of your blog is really worth reading. The quality of your content is excellent. After seeing this, I would like to…
If this site seems to load a little faster today it’s because it is now hosted at CloudMoxie, a hosting company that Crowd Favorite (my company) is a partner in. We’ve been rolling out our hosting services slowly, mainly for our clients at Crowd Favorite, but we’re at a point now where we’re willing to…
A few months back I changed the label of the ad section of my sidebar from “Ads” to “Make Me Money”. Apparently Google didn’t think my pithy little section title was very funny. Fair enough, I’ve kicked it back to the “boring” setting. And shed a small tear.
Sorry for the few hours of downtime here this morning. I moved the last of my domains off of Network Solutions and it seems that the DNS settings weren’t transferred properly. Everything appears to be back up and running now, but I’m sure some weirdness will continue throughout the day as things propagate.
Over the last few years my blogging has curtailed sharply. I’m down to 180-ish posts per year, of which about 40 are link dumps. This is largely due to the fact I’ve been working on client projects that I can’t discuss openly during the development phases (like I could when I was building my own…
I updated my PwdHash page to tweak the CSS for mobile (webkit) browsers. It’s not quite a replacement for a native app on a mobile device, but it’s a lot better than the desktop version was. Feel free to use it if you like.
Welcome to my fifth annual year in review post. Last year I wrote this as an intro to my annual retrospective: This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and…
I’ve experienced a weird and unfortunate chain reaction over the last 48 hours. A flood of comment spam Akismet not accepting connections from my server1 and/or not catching the spam. UPDATE: this wasn’t Akismet’s fault, see bottom of post. The email notifications from all the spam comments sending to my mail account My mail host…
Just when I thought I was getting back to blogging more regularly, the combination of a busy work week, interviewing and recruiting for our open QA/Developer position, and three sets of family visitors got me right off track again.
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.8 and you should too. I’ve had to upgrade a bunch of my plugins in the process, bringing them current with the latest and greatest WordPress code and best practices. Expect a couple more plugin releases soon. I also took the opportunity to switch everything from Prototype to jQuery – resulting…
I know a lot of folks like to close comments on old posts to cut down on comment SPAM. I certainly understand the sentiment behind this, but I’d like to encourage you to consider leaving comments on those old posts open. Here are just a couple of examples where keeping comments open has been interesting…
Welcome to my fourth annual year in review post. This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and working on more client projects that I can’t talk about as they…
This site will be moving to beefier hardware shortly. Apologies in advance for any downtime. UPDATE: Looks like everything transitioned quite smoothly. The big speed improvement you see here is in large part due to the good folks at Austin Web Development. Big thanks to Chris and the team there for the smooth transition and…
‘Tis the sixth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on my blog. Thanks to my matey Dougal “BlueBeard” Campbell for the right proper plugin o’ th day.
I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough – not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my…
I’m not finding as much time to experiment with things on this site as much as I’d like, but I did switch over from Google AdSense to Rubicon to try them out (on Micah‘s recommendation). I turned off things I thought would be too annoying: Audio Ads, False Message Ads, Shaky/Flashing Ads and Windows Dialog…
I’ve moved this site to our new SVN server, let me know if anything broke in the process.
Welcome to my third annual year in review post. January – I begin offering premium support and TechStars is announced. I start helping RedMonk in their site update efforts, PHP Tag Engine reaches 1.0, I release a variety of WordPress plugin updates and we upgrade the Use Tasks service. February – I get to release…
There are a number of sites that are harvesting the RSS feed of the comments on this site for SPLOGS. I know this because they send pingbacks when they post the content on their sites. This has been getting worse for me over the last few months – anyone else seeing it? It’s annoying to…
I’ve turned off the Kontera in-text ads that had been shown to people on their first page load if they came in from a search engine. Frankly, I’d forgotten I still had them on since I hardly ever saw them, and the income wasn’t enough to offset the bad impression they made on many visitors.…
I’m in Hawaii for the next week, and am going to do my best to not work or be online too much while I’m here. Posting here and e-mail response time will definitely be impacted. Aloha.
‘Tis the fifth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Yo-ho-ho!
I’ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well. It’s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice…
I was approached by TradePub a little while back to see if I wanted to be one of their “free magazine” affiliates. From what I gather, it’s basically the exchange of marketing information about you for free magazines – some of which are pretty useful reads. I imagine this will be an attractive offer to…