I’ve learned a lot through the years as a web programmer/engineer/developer (pick and choose the term you prefer).  I’ve so too many thousands of lines of code to count, I’ve seen so many errors and warnings and server outages that I just don’t care to describe, and looking back at my past work is often pretty horrifying! Let’s get those confessions out of the way Forgive me oh holy purveyors of code, for I have [...]

After much much much delay, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, I have returned! It’s not so much that I’d decided I had a blog that I didn’t care about anymore, but I felt as though if I were to carelessly throw garbage code on here for the sake of populating this site, I’d be a bit of an ass. Since my last post (whoaaa, apparently over a year ago), I have worked [...]

A commonly overlooked factor in search engine optimization for websites is the “to www or not to www” question.  Singularly speaking, search engines have no preference for your site to contain the “www” prefix, however failure to specify can negatively impact your search engine rankings. Do note that in order for the .htaccess file modification below to function properly, your webserver must allow mod_rewrite. Consider the following scenario. You submit your xml sitemap to google. [...]

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