Constantine Maroulis fans are raging
American Idol Constantine Maroulis fans are raging due to his not making the list of top Idols.
twittering
Signed up with twitter. What do I do now?
testing litespeed webserver
Testing litespeed webserver standard edition. It feels like apache. I may need my very PC to play with this some more.
Using our tool and adwords
Today, I created my very first Google Adwords campaign. I am going to put to test the tool we wrote. If our users pay $300 per month for what we built, it must be doing something good for them. Besides, the tool is already stable except for some quirks here and there. It’s completely usable.
I don’t know if it’s a good sign or not but after a few minutes of creating my first ad, it had it’s first click. I’ve yet to see if it converted as my affiliate hasn’t updated it’s report pages yet.
Do I sound a bit too excited? You bet, I am. It’s the same feeling I get when I get my first click in Adsense.
Server generated screenshots
Will be trying khtml2png for generating screenshots from the server.
Sideblog and Twitter
Twitter is huge nowadays. Sideblog was my twitter. And yeah, I was contemplating creating a hosted version of Sideblog since last year. Now, twitter is almost exactly what I had in mind - one line blogging facility using widgets. Alas, work got in the way.
Note to self: next time, ask if an idea is viable.
Wife hooked on Battlestar Galactica
Hah. Battlestar Galactica got me and France hooked.
New skin by Fadtastic
Fantastic theme from Fadtastic. Thanks to Andrew Faulkner for the kickass design. Found via wordpress.com dashboard.
Weird 404s by Sideblog
Until now, I can’t figure out why other blogs with Sideblog plugin installed has their pages returning 404s. I did some testing with fresh install of wordpress as well as on existing blogs and have not gotten any 404s. Yes, even before Sideblog version 3.7. I follow the same procedure everytime.
One reason might be that I am totally out of touch with regards to core Wordpress code developments. I don’t have any paid wordpress related projects since late last year. But as I see it, there were not much changes in core WP code that directly affects Sideblog.
Anyway, Wordpress just launched their plugins directory. If I understood them correctly, they allow hosting the plugin from there and will provide SVN for it. These is good news. I am planning to upload Sideblog over there and allow other developers to submit fixes. Maybe, this time, Sideblog’ll be a bit stable than it is now.
Lost
Whew, I couldn’t believe the last post I have here was on January 23. There’s was nothing for the whole month of February. Which means this blog is a ghost town already. I haven’t checked the site stats but I assume nobody’s reading this anymore. Well… good. Let’s start over again.
So what’s the latest? I got bored with PHP and took up Ruby and Rails. Ruby is great. And so is Rails. If PHP is easy, learning Ruby and Rails is easier it’s almost spoon-feeding. I didn’t like all the magic Rails does at first but after knowing how it does things, I can’t find any reason not to use them. Now, if only I can use Rails for work, I would be very happy for the rest of the year.