Writings

Lead Generation

• Internet Leads
• Internet Advertising
• Landing Pages
• Website
• Lead Management
• Web Analytics

Ways of Thinking

• The Carnegie Secret: Carnegie believed that achievement of financial success could be reduced to a simple formula, which could be duplicated by the average person.

Web Development

• Ad Blobs: Use ad blobs to get a higher clickthrough rate on your Google Adsense ads.
• Redirect mailto: for Spam Prevention: Prevent e-mail siphons from harvesting your e-mail addresses by separating the address from the Web page while still providing a way for users to click a link and have it open their local mailer.
• Graphic @ for Spam Prevention: Prevent e-mail siphons from harvesting your e-mail address by not using the commercial "@" character when displaying your e-mail address on a Web page; use a graphical "@" instead.
• Nielsen Norman Group User Experience World Tour (Main Event): Summary (2001)
• Web Development Lifecycle Survey Form (PDF, 72 KB )

Databases

• Simulating Oracle Sequences in Microsoft SQL Server & ColdFusion
• Oracle 8.1.7 vs PostgreSQL 7.03: Benchmarks

System Administration

• Compiling Emacs on Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 and Fedora
• Compiling VMailMgr with gcc 3.x on Redhat Enterprise 3: HOWTO
• Web Hosting: Overview
• Challenge/Response at the SMTP Level
• IMail: No Return-Path Header or Envelope Sender
• Cable vs. DSL: Latency
• SPAM SMTP Reply Code: Proposal -- Establish a standard SMTP reply code to identify e-mail messages that have been rejected by SPAM filtering programs at the SMTP level.
• Redhat up2date SSL_Connect Error: Solution
• Securing X-Win32 Sessions with SSH: HOWTO -- explains how to set up SSH and X-Win32 to secure X-Win32 sessions.
• Setting up a Cable Modem on SGI/IRIX: HOWTO -- explains how to configure an IRIX system to use a cable modem with a dynamic IP.
• Changing Linux Login Shell: HOWTO -- explains how a normal user can change his/her default login shell.
• Changin Emacs' Font: HOWTO -- explains how to change the font emacs uses for X-Windows sessions.
• Internet Footprinting Notes (PDF, 84 KB)

OpenACS

• Enable OpenACS Subsites to Use SSL through a Pound Proxy
• Virtual Hosting with nsunix & AOLserver 3.1: HOWTO
• OpenACS comments on ADP pages: HOWTO