Explicit Faith June 5th, 2007

One my home recording forum members contacted me about setting up a site for his band, Explicit Faith. Because we went with the Wordpress setup, he’s be able to get an extremely powerful website for MUCH less than it would have cost just a few years ago.
Frankly, I’m amazed at how fast I […]

Reducing Server Load With Vbulletin May 28th, 2007

I stumbled upon a link today that has a list of ways to optimize vBulletin for greater performance / less server load.
If you have used vBulletin, you know that it’s not exactly a “light” load for a server. I must admit that SMF forum did feel quite a bit faster to me. […]

Using Preg Replace For Search Engine Friendly URLs May 26th, 2007

I don’t know about you, but I REALLY hate seeing “%20″ in the URL. I haven’t figured out what Google thinks of it yet, but it just looks cheap to me. So when I’m writing SEO friendly URLs, I don’t want to leave any spaces. Let’s assume the title of this particular […]

REGEx Price Explained May 25th, 2007

REGEx Price Explained
“/(^$)|(^[0-9]+$)|(^[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]$)/”,
This piece of REGEX has three different options as you can see with the ” | ” thingy which stands for “or”.
Option #1 is the (^$). The “^” means “Start with whatever is after this. The “$” means “end with whatever is before this. Since there is nothing […]

REGEX Remove Commas From Form Textfield May 25th, 2007

Just in case you ever wanted to remove commas from a form automatically, this is one way to do it. It uses the javascript “onblur” trick. So when ever the mouse leaves this field, it calls the piece of code.
Why would you ever want to remove commas from a form?
MySQL databases don’t always […]

Brandon 1:6 May 18th, 2007

Even our war-protesting liberals are driving gas guzzling SUV’s
I read a Buddhist philosophy book years ago. It said you can’t expect more from your government than you do from yourself.
There is nothing wrong with being a liberal idealist. However, you’ve got to walk the walk. This is why most liberals […]

Help Us Make This Site Killer Tofu May 14th, 2007

So, Brandon and I have been hard at work trying to get textlinkcenter ready. We have a ton of ideas that would be really nice to have available when we launch the site, and we are going to try and get as many of those ideas working as fast as we can.
Which brings me […]

Text Link Center Taking Shape May 10th, 2007

Luke and I put in our usual all-out-doom amount of work. We pretty much worked non-stop from 9am until 2am yesterday and then 10am until 10pm today. We are really trying to get Text Link Center up and rocking. It looks like the site is starting to take shape. While it’s […]

Wordpress Feed Plugin May 10th, 2007

I must admit that I haven’t done much with RSS Feeds in the past except for displaying the latest forum and blog posts on my sites’ index pages. You can see an example of posting an RSS feed on my the index page of Tex Link Center. I actually used a little script […]

SEO Test Brainstorming May 10th, 2007

Today Luke and I started brainstorming our SEO test ideas. Basically, we are tired of the “faith based” guesswork that dominates webmaster forums and blogs. We are looking for hard data that settles some of the various SEO debates. We are kind of looking at ourselves as a couple of Mythbusters. […]