Archive for the ‘Webmaster Things’ Category
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Living in Thailand has its fair share of disadvantages. The most prominent being bad internet and poor response times. In most cases, the packet shaping, caching and filtering mechanisms use by ISPs do more harm than good. A response from a US server may take anywhere between 100 to 1000 ...
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
A script for analyzing my webservers access.log is long overdue here is a small start. Just recently I noticed a bad bot was attempting to scrape whole of my site using Googlebot's useragent. Since im learning python, I thought it might be a nice experience to write a simple script ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) is one of India's leading news wires. Their news is available to subscribers only and among their clients are various newspapers and news websites. They are one of the fastest text news services and often among the first to break news.
Last night, their website was hacked ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
... well not yet...
Just a while ago, Google launched their own browser Chrome. It does look good, has many cool features, more secure, more stable, but still a beta. And this time its really a beta. Currently its available only for windows, however the main point is that its opensource ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
CDN stands for Content Delivery(or Distribution) Network. It is a network of servers usually located in various geographic locations to improve the availability and access speed of a website (or webapp or other media). The main use of CDNs were during the nineteens when inter-continental access was slow, scarce and ...
Posted in Linux, Webmaster Things, perl | 7 Comments »
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites.
Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...
Posted in SEO, Webmaster Things | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Just today Jan told me about Piwik. At first glance it looks quite neat and developer friendly. The idea seems to be to make an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics and the advantages seems to be many. Piwik is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds ...
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