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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 31 Mar 2006 at 10:14
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It is said that click-fraud will destroy Internet advertising. This is more than true. Companies like Google take steps to help ensure against click-fraud, and protect their massive advertising profits. However, there are often workarounds that users find; many about which the advertising networks do not seem to care.
I came upon a good article about AdSense traps and their affect on the advertising market, primarily Google AdSense and AdWords. AdSense traps are revenue earning techniques that are easily deemed as click-fraud, but are le…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 28 Mar 2006 at 16:38
Ruby on Rails is suppose to be the next "big thing", which may be more than true. Rails is an open source framework, whose goal is to allow applications to be written in significantly less code. Rails is not a programming language. It is a framework written in Ruby. When you use Rails you are really writing Ruby code, which is then handled by Rails.
Previously, finding good Rails tutorials was a tad hard. They were very few in number. Six months later and Ruby resources are more than plentiful. You can find tutorials, books, applicati…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 20 Mar 2006 at 20:52
There are very few conversation-worthy code editors for OS X. Most code editors for OS X provide rather simple functions, but not enough capability to handle larger volumes of code and a multitude of files. Luckily, Apple offers Xcode - an integrated development environment that can handle a wide variety of programming languages - which is included freely with most Macs.
Xcode is intentionally for OS X programming - Carbon, Cocoa, etc. - but it also works well with web programming languages such as PHP and Perl. Xcode's true ability shine…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 15 Mar 2006 at 21:27
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The latest weekly build of Opera 9 - build 8265 - passes the Acid2 web-standards test. This puts Opera as the second web browser to completely pass the Acid2 test, with Safari being the first. Other browsers, such as Konqueror and iCab, partially pass the Acid2 test, but not completely.
You can download the latest weekly build at the Opera Lab's website.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Mon 13 Mar 2006 at 22:02
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In today's web almost every new product and service is in beta. Google is notorious for labeling all of their services as beta, almost to the point where it is a joke. Then what is wrong with beta? Originally, beta signified technology that was still in the making, where mistakes were expected and would be fixed in due time.
"Beta" is no longer the same beta. Beta has come to the point where businesses only use it as an excuse to not provide liability for their applications. For example, various Gmail users have complained that they los…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Fri 10 Mar 2006 at 6:39
Good bug tracking software is hard to come by these days. Most systems cost too much or they are too bloated. Yesterday, Olate released a new bug tracking utility, Arctic. Arctic is an effective tool to monitor bugs, feature request, to-do items, and more.
Unlike other bug systems, such as Mantis, Arctic does not bother with unnecessary features. You get the bare-bone basics in an extremely easy to use environment. However, with the custom field feature you have the ability to expand need be.
Excited, I gave Arctic a trial run. I do…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 7 Mar 2006 at 21:40
Earlier last week Apple held a small press event at their corporate headquarters, located in Silicon Valley, California. The event announced that the PowerPC-based Mac Mini was being replaced by an updated, Intel-based replacement. Apple also released HiFi speakers and leather cases for the popular iPod.
The new Mac Mini is about three to five times faster - depending on the model - and contains the new Front Row software. The updated Mac Mini comes in two models, with the lower model containing a Core Solo processor and the higher model …
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 4 Mar 2006 at 21:04
One of the many difficulties of CSS is that parent containers of elements with a float property do not take up vertical space, or wrap around the content it contains. Rather, the container will appear as an element with no height. This creates some styling difficulties for designers, unless they want to add extra markup.
Clearing floats is very useful in a variety of situations, as the majority of CSS layouts involve placing smaller elements inside a larger wrapping element. Overtime, many techniques for clearing floats have developed; so…
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