SEO and owning your last name on Google

June 8, 2011

SEO (search engine optimization) is most possibly the key word on the tips of every marketers tongue. My understanding of it is that you position your content in such a way that search engines can better find you and analyze the effectiveness of your data. So, little things such as headings (and its various levels h1/h2/h3/h4), description and keywords all come into play.

I initially launched this blog after having an interesting conversation with a friend, Rob Jama, about resumes in general. He joked about the possibility of ditching resumes completely, and just having a business card that shows Google’s search box with your name in it. This would only work if

Forcing PDF files to download

April 23, 2011

Recently, I was dealing with a rather dumb issue between various browsers and how they display/download PDF files. What was dumb was that one browser would display an error when the file originates from a CDN, while when locally available on the same server, no issues. Let’s not forget, visa versa for the other browser.

First thing I managed to do was reach out to the browser and CDN in question on twitter, hoping this was a known issue. With my luck, no go. So, let’s just force a file download and avoid the headache all in all. We’ll call this getfile.php.

Mining Google Analytics data with Bit.ly links

January 23, 2011

Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – Who’s the cooler audience?

Using Google Analytics, you’re able to track information about your site, its performance, and other cool information such as traffic sources, medium, and campaign information. Being connected and using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, you would want to know which social network produces the highest impact on traffic to your site. In essence, what you really need to do is create three separate links and then shorten it with Bit.ly.

I recently wrote a quick script that does just that – allows embedding of Google campaign information, and produces three separate links to be shortened using Bit.ly’s API. For the code to connect to Bit.ly’s API, I found the code snippet on David Walsh’s site.

Email Design for Outlook 2007

December 10, 2010

This is a real quick post because of the love-hate relationship I’ve developed for crappy software like IE6 and the rendering engine for Outlook 2007. Since nearly anyone and everyone uses Microsoft Outlook (majority rules), you have to deal with their problems. Outlook 2000 users, need not worry about this post.

There comes a time in every developer’s designer’s life that requires them to design an email template for a company. If you’ve ever worked with CSS and shifted away from tables and moved onto divs, you’ll find that you might have to go back to how things were done before.

The solution to IE6

October 28, 2010

This post simply allows me to express my deepest feelings for the failed browser, but still very much alive, IE6 (Internet Explorer version 6). On my way to work, I think about the headaches I may receive. I think about the worst moments of my day and how it would likely have a connection to IE6. Coffee machine not working… IE6, network crashed….IE6, driving on a spare (donut) tire because the first one has a hole in it… IE6. You get the picture.