Weekly Roundup - November 5th 2007
Posted November 5th, 2007 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of October 29th to November 4th, where I look back at the articles I posted over the last seven days, and other interesting articles and blog posts I have read online. One of the purposes of this blog is to have a reference point for myself so I can easily find how to do stuff I've done in the past, or fix errors I might have had in the past, and a number of posts this week relate to this.
Articles posted on my blog
On Monday, I looked at the Yum sqlite database disk image is malformed error after having received this error myself on one of my CentOS 5 servers.
I've been in the process of setting up a new mail server and moving domains across from the old mail server to the new one. This saw a couple of posts relating to email and email applications: Mozilla Thunderbird exceeded maximum number of connections to IMAP server on Tuesday, and the Postfix SMTP Auth Error "no SASL authentication mechanisms" error on Saturday.
On Friday I was having trouble remembering how to get code completion working in Zend Studio for the PEAR DB database object, so posted how to do this as a reminder for myself in the PHP PEAR DB Code Completion in Zend Studio post.
The rest of the week I covered some things I'd done a few weeks ago, but had not yet posted my notes up as blog posts: Configuring VMWare Tools stops the network on Wednesday, using PHP to generate unique URLs for Javascript and CSS files on Thursday, and installing the MSSQL module for PHP on CentOS 5 on Sunday.
Interesting articles found offsite
PC World looked at the 10 Biggest Web Annoyances, looking at things the web still doesn't get right.
Whois is the tool for looking up information about who owns a domain and how to get in contact with them. Unfortunately it is used by spammers to harvest email addresses and it's been reported that whois may be scrapped for privacy reasons.
Web Designer World posted a useful article about creating CSS menus using a single image for both the mouseover and mouseout images.
SEOmoz changed a site's domain with 301 redirects from the old version to the new version. Their 301 experiment shows what they did to make the transition as smooth as possible, and what the results were.
The Blog Herald offers some tips about how to get people to read your blog. These are all pretty straight forward but it's good to have a reference list like this.
The MySQL Performance Blog looked at Innodb Performance Optimization Basics. The article itself looks at a pretty hefty database server, but the hints offered are good for any sized MySQL database server.
If you're creating Ajax applications and need a nice loading image, Ajaxload offers a service for creating on the fly, free of charge, images to display while the Ajax function is running. I found this site from a Google search.
And finally for this week, I found KeywordSpy from referrer information in my log files. This is a rather interesting looking service which helps you work out what keywords your competitors are bidding on in the pay per click services by Google and Overture.
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