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February, 2006 Archive

Create a PHP Documentation Bookmarklet

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Here’s an easy javascript tip that’ll make looking up PHP functiosn even faster.

Posted in JavaScript, PHP, Productivity | 4 Comments »

Tyler Hall Joins Sitening as Web Developer

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Sitening is pleased to announce that they have hired Tyler Hall, a graduate of MTSU and recent resident of Chattanooga.
“Tyler’s skills and interests supplement perfectly our goal of delivering powerful and elegant web services of our own as well as to our customers,” said Sitening CEO Thomas F. O’Connell. “We’ve reached a point where we [...]

Posted in Company News, Press Releases | 1 Comment »

SMTP Testing with Perl

Friday, February 10th, 2006

After testing a few too many SMTP servers and email addresses using Telnet, I finally broke down and wrote a perl script to do it for me. The SMTP Telnet test is handy, but the Debug mode for Net::SMTP does the same thing, and with less typing.
This script requires Net::SMTP and Net::DNS. Just [...]

Posted in Open Source, Perl | No Comments »

Using Ethtool on Boot

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Ethtool allows you to configure most network drivers with settings such as full or half duplex, speeds of 10 or 100, and auto negotiation. In order to have these settings take affect on boot, you need to add them to the boot process somewhere. There are various approaches for this, but if you [...]

Posted in Linux, Open Source | No Comments »

Apache Hangs Due to Lack of Entropy

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

We recently deployed two new Linux web servers, a couple of Sun v20z’s. Ubuntu installed cleanly, we put them into production, and everything was going smoothly. Then Apache processes started hanging, and we ended up rebooting a couple of times to get the servers functioning again.
Turns out it was /dev/random blocking the processes. [...]

Posted in Linux, Open Source | 2 Comments »

Creating Printer Friendly Web Pages With CSS

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

One of the most annoying experiences for Internet users is printing a page that displays undesirable web page elements. For example, users have no interest in printing out a web page that includes a navigation menu, and other design elements that don’t relate to the content they’re trying to capture.
A work around for this issue [...]

Posted in CSS, Web Design | 13 Comments »

Search Engine Marketing Without PPC

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

If you go to just about any search engine marketing (SEM) specialist, you’ll find out that their main service usually involves pay per click (PPC) advertising. Misleading consensus among SEM service providers, and ignorance on the part of clients, has led to the belief that SEM is PPC. PPC is only one facet of SEM, [...]

Posted in SEO, Strategy, Website Marketing | 3 Comments »