I don’t normally just post links, but Atmosphere has just put a free, legal album that you can download immediately! http://www.rhymesayers.com/atmosphere/ For those who don’t know, Atmosphere is an indie rapper from Minneapolis. Again, his album is free, so check him out!

What if you have a sitemap.xml file on your server, and you want to automate the pinging of search engines like google, yahoo, ask and moreover (from what I understand, the sitemaps service for MSN)? If you have a CMS such as Drupal or WordPress, it will automatically ping, or you can ping with PHP XML-RPC plugins.I couldn’t find an easy way to simply automate the pinging of my sitemap file with PHP, so I cobbled together my own solution. The only thing you need to do to make this thing work is to replace all the instances of www.mydomain.com with the name of your actual name, and specify the variable ‘$sitemapname’ (i.e. sitemap.xml). So, give the following a try and tell me what you think! Read More »

I have a website with a flexible layout, I guess you would call it jello, so it resizes depending on the size of the window and resolution, making it difficult to determine what to pass as width and height variables. I wanted it to fit well into its containing <div>.

I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t already a solution for this, so I made my own. This solution uses a bit of php, javascript, and of course, flash. Please keep in mind that I cannot guarantee the reliability and/or quality of this solution, all I know is that it works for me, with IIS and PHP 5 (also works with PHP 4). Read More »

I try to not just post links with minimal commentary, but this tool is worth a look. I could play with this all day. I have to read about the methodology, and its hard to quantify the benefits of having your own yard for bonfires, and having whatever dog you want, but its still interesting.