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Domains are worthless without traffic
If you know anything about my growth strategy for my social network, it's that I'm expanding my platform horizontally across multiple domains and allowing each site to grow organically. This has led me down the road of being one of [...]
PHP segmentation faulting from logging too much
At least I think that's what was happening. Today I made the somewhat calculated risk of upgrading my production server from PHP 5.3.10 to PHP 5.5.7. Scary stuff, jumping 2 point revisions like that but I was feeling cocky after [...]
Lessons learned from sending thank you cards to my users
I wanted to do something nice this holiday season and decided to identify some of my power users on SceneKids.com and mail them Christmas cards and some SK stickers. The users I had selected were a mix of users that [...]
Getting PHP's version from the command-line
As you may already know, obtaining the version number of PHP is a simple php --version away. This is great if you just want to see the version number, but what if you wanted just the version number? First option [...]
That time I got ripped off on Flippa
In my defense, I'm a grown ass man and I knew exactly what I was doing. I was really intrigued by all of the "automated websites" that Flippa is overrun with and figured I'd set myself a very modest budget [...]
How to error when setting undefined class properties in PHP
Perhaps you have a class and you absolutely don't want anyone tacking new properties onto it once it's been instantiated. To do so, you can use PHP's overloading to catch the setting of a variable and raise an error accordingly [...]
Bake your fees in, don't line item them
As a business owner, I understand that there are fees associated with running a business. There's always a cost to doing business and those costs can generally be written off at the end of the year. Those costs are yours [...]
What transferring a domain to a new registrar entails
With my recent trials and tribulations with DirectNIC and my now exodus to NameSilo I've been asked a couple of times of how difficult a domain transfer is and what it entails. Before I discuss the steps to transfer a [...]
How to set up a LAMP server on Ubuntu 13.10
Been a while since I've covered setting up a brand new LAMP server. This time, I'm going to be using Ubuntu 13.10 and once you are logged into your server you will want to update and upgrade it to the [...]
Ground up rewrites should be a last resort not the status quo
And even then, everything has to be so fucking abysmal that there's no way to avoid it. The only time I'd ever condone a full rewrite is when you are completely abandoning an existing user base else you're probably going [...]