Matthew R Williams

Happy New Year! I just found this nifty offer from Verizon Wireless. They are giving customers a free ringtone today only.

Details are on their website, but here are the simple steps. Remember it is valid December 31, 2006 from 12:00am to 11:59pm.

1. Go to Get It Now on your Verizon Wireless phone.
2. Click on Music & Tones
3. Get New Ringtones
4. Download or Access VZW Tones Deluxe
5. Pick & Purchase a Ringtone
6. Click Redemption Code and Enter “2007″

I will note that as of 3:00pm I am getting a “The network is temporarily unavailable. (1289)” error message when I click “getTones.”

I have been reading ProBlogger quite a bit over the past few weeks as I work to build up my own blog and to get into a routine of blogging daily. I was happy to see this entry on Digg this morning:

Many don’t believe that getting on Digg is worth much because the traffic is so fleeting however I think there is much more value for smart publishers than just the initial burst of traffic. […]

If you are a blogger that has been dreaming of making it on the Digg front page, I recommend you read Darren’s ProBlogger article today.

• AJAX for n00bs [www]
  A decent AJAX tutorial for beginners.
• A not-so-new AJAX tutorial @ W3Schools [www]
• How to make a mini air horn [www]
  Random, but why not? Great for New Years celebrations!
• GoldenEye Source [www]
  Eager to try this out, as I spent a LOT of time playing GoldenEye on the N64

From ShoeMoney.com:

As most of you know a few months back my site was hacked. What many people dont know is that was actually the first of 2 times the box was hacked. […] Well after going through the logs greping for the ip range that hacked my box I found that the person found my site from Google! Specifically using Google code search. Now while this was interesting it still did not explain how the page was even indexed…. ohh wait I use Google Sitemaps and I had it on to index everything (the default setting) OUPS!! […]

Read the article, then read some comments. Basically, let this serve as a reminder that when you slack off as a webmaster, you (and your clients) will suffer. I do believe this is what the author is trying to do, remind you to not be stupid when it comes to your web servers. For most of us, he is not giving us any new information and I think he knows that. He did, however, remind this webmaster to take some time and look for exploits on all of his client’s sites over the next couple of days.

There are a lot of different solutions out there for creating professional looking graphs & charts in PHP. The problem I recently faced was finding useful methods. Some articles go into detail explaining the process, but they are lacking when it comes to producing automated reports with dynamic, database driven data. Complete solutions do exist, allowing you to implement them with your present dynamic data reports. Here is one solution, Libchart, along with my brief thoughts on it. Continue Reading »