Actually, I was more wondering if there was some zombie going around right now. Nobody's really accessing my blog, just the home page. Also, I see a lot of accesses from the CoDeeN project, so I wonder what's up....
Start returning 500 errors... Or 302s that redirect them back to themselves...
Eric
PS: Is there some kind of bot storm going on, I'm getting all kinds of weird accesses to my site today, they're all fetching just the home page and leaving, and the referrer tag is null for everyone... They may be committing click fraud through my site, which makes me mad...
I've used 4NT for so long now it's hard to remember what the standard shell can and can't (or couldn't) do. Although looking through the 4NT help, I can't see any support for named pipes there either, just regular unnamed pipes.
Technically you can do this in Unix today with named pipes, which the Windows world sadly lacks
Hmm... funny, I was using named pipes in my Windows NT 3.5 days, and as far as I know they're still there. Don't remember if they're exposed at the CLI level, though.
An obvious troll, but... if you are interested in Java, check out Joshua Bloch's Effective Java, written in the same style as Effective C++. Great book for similar reasons.
Anyone who's a fan of the original should also check out the soundtrack album, officially called The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Most of the classic sequences from the film are on there, along with some additional bits. Quite a riot. And I'm old enough that I have it in original LP form. (LP = long pants, youngster)
This was a front page story in today's Globe and Mail: New vaccines target Ebola, Marburg. Still at least five years away from testing... but if I had Ebola I think I'd be ready to sign up for early clinical trials!
Interesting how the vaccine may end up saving African apes as well...
Everyone should always assume that anything they post on the internet will be somewhere forever.
No kidding. And this predates the Web. You'd be surprised at what people were posting on Usenet back in the '80s... If you post or email it, assume someone's kept a copy somewhere.
You're right, but I bet a lot (most?) sites don't do it right and Google figures this is the next best way... Easier to ask people to put up sitemaps than tell them to fix their pages/servers.
It depends on how many pages there are that match those keywords. If your title is unique enough, then sure, your site will show up first. But as soon as there's contention for the keywords, don't expect to stay up top.
Google will hopefully crawl your frequently-changing pages more often
Conversly, Google won't crawl other pages as often, saving your bandwith
Google will find pages that it wouldn't normally find just by following links
Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to maintain more than one sitemap. You could use XSLT to create the sitemap.html file for your site from the XML file you create for Google. In fact, wouldn't it be nice for Web authoring tools to do this automatically for you?
Quite right, a new site can be listed in the Google index pretty quickly -- it only took a few days for my latest site to be found by the Googlebot -- but it takes a while before any PageRank gets assigned to its pages, especially if there are no inbound links to the site. No PageRank, no top listing...
I agree, don't drown them in buzzwords. That said, it's not entirely clear to me what is meant by 'complex website'. Are you limiting yourself to web applications on dynamic sites? Are you concerned mainly with the presentation aspects of those web apps? Do you cover navigational and other non-app issues? Do you deal with the complexities of the configuration and management of the web sites (DMZ, load balancing, etc.)? Do you talk about application servers? Non-database back ends? Covering all these aspects in three months would be a challenge if you expect them to do any programming at all.
Eric
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I'm not currently using a database, no, because there aren't enough links to justify that. Some of the links aren't simple redirects, either, as in when an URL in my book points to a page that is actually a collection of links that the reader can navigate to. If I had a lot of links, I'd automate it like you said, though.
The point is to keep the paper book as current as possible to avoid reader frustration. E-books have the same problem, of course.
And no, you probably wouldn't have seen my books unless you were into some obscure topics like J2ME programming. My latest one is less obscure, although frankly the typical Slashdotter is not the target audience...
As someone who's written books with actual URLs on the printed page, I can understand his desire to have some way to update stale links without having to track down and change every copy. Automatically redirecting is not a big deal -- this is how TinyURL and other similar (and useful) services work. Most of the printed links in my new book (see below) are done in this way to keep them from breaking when the destination site changes things around and they don't bother to redirect incoming links to the correct location.
There is a difference between "redirecting" and "hijacking". Redirection by itself is not hijacking.
But that's true about most marketing initiatives. What makes them nervous is that the posters aren't having their material vetted (like press releases and so on) through the usual corporate processes.
rather than formulating a marketing driven non-word for their new product
And yet, if you read articles like Strength of Trademarks you'll see that those "non-word" (aka "fanciful) trademarks are the strongest to protect. So there's a reason for formulating them.
Of course, the challenge with the fanciful names is linking them to the product/service.
Eric
Latest book: I've written an AdSense book for non-techies
Well, Google has admitted publically that click fraud is a threat to its business, so I'd assume that in the long run they're going to get better at fighting it. Guess we'll see...
As others have already pointed out, Google makes the lion share of its money from ads, though they do sell their search technology itself via things like their search appliances, partnering with companies like Amazon, etc.
I think, though, that one of the keys to Google's success has been its ability to create simple, automated processes wrapped around its technology. Want to promote your stuff? A few screens to fill out and $50 lets you start an AdWords campaign. Want to make money? Cut-and-paste AdSense code onto your website to start displaying relevant ads automatically. Want to integrate search? Use the Google APIs to query Google's main index. Got products to sell? Submit a product feed to get listed in Froogle. Want to index specialized documents? Write a plugin for the Google Desktop tool. And so on... They seem to go to great lengths to make things simpler to do. That's the key part of their culture that has made them successful. IMHO.
Eric
(And yes, I have a new book on Google coming out mid-June so obviously I like what they do!)
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A quick search on "computer science distance education" and you can find a plethora of links, such as this one:
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EricActually, I was more wondering if there was some zombie going around right now. Nobody's really accessing my blog, just the home page. Also, I see a lot of accesses from the CoDeeN project, so I wonder what's up....
Start returning 500 errors... Or 302s that redirect them back to themselves...
EricPS: Is there some kind of bot storm going on, I'm getting all kinds of weird accesses to my site today, they're all fetching just the home page and leaving, and the referrer tag is null for everyone... They may be committing click fraud through my site, which makes me mad...
I've used 4NT for so long now it's hard to remember what the standard shell can and can't (or couldn't) do. Although looking through the 4NT help, I can't see any support for named pipes there either, just regular unnamed pipes.
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Technically you can do this in Unix today with named pipes, which the Windows world sadly lacks
Hmm... funny, I was using named pipes in my Windows NT 3.5 days, and as far as I know they're still there. Don't remember if they're exposed at the CLI level, though.
EricAnother AdSense blog
An obvious troll, but... if you are interested in Java, check out Joshua Bloch's Effective Java, written in the same style as Effective C++. Great book for similar reasons.
EricOld stuff: The ANSI Standard: A Summary for C Programmers
Yeah, but it's just paper and ink. It's not like you're accidentally engaging in friendly fire...
EricAnyone who's a fan of the original should also check out the soundtrack album, officially called The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Most of the classic sequences from the film are on there, along with some additional bits. Quite a riot. And I'm old enough that I have it in original LP form. (LP = long pants, youngster)
EricSee your HTTP headers live
This was a front page story in today's Globe and Mail: New vaccines target Ebola, Marburg. Still at least five years away from testing... but if I had Ebola I think I'd be ready to sign up for early clinical trials!
Interesting how the vaccine may end up saving African apes as well...
EricRead about my new AdSense book for non-techies
Everyone should always assume that anything they post on the internet will be somewhere forever.
No kidding. And this predates the Web. You'd be surprised at what people were posting on Usenet back in the '80s... If you post or email it, assume someone's kept a copy somewhere.
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You can't yet. Follow the links in this blog entry for more information.
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You're right, but I bet a lot (most?) sites don't do it right and Google figures this is the next best way... Easier to ask people to put up sitemaps than tell them to fix their pages/servers.
EricWhy the Vioxx recall reduced spam (humor)
It depends on how many pages there are that match those keywords. If your title is unique enough, then sure, your site will show up first. But as soon as there's contention for the keywords, don't expect to stay up top.
EricView your HTTP headers here
It benefits you because:
Also, you wouldn't necessarily have to maintain more than one sitemap. You could use XSLT to create the sitemap.html file for your site from the XML file you create for Google. In fact, wouldn't it be nice for Web authoring tools to do this automatically for you?
EricMake Easy Money with Google: The Blog (powered by blojsom)
Quite right, a new site can be listed in the Google index pretty quickly -- it only took a few days for my latest site to be found by the Googlebot -- but it takes a while before any PageRank gets assigned to its pages, especially if there are no inbound links to the site. No PageRank, no top listing...
EricCurrently at #1 for adsense tips
I agree, don't drown them in buzzwords. That said, it's not entirely clear to me what is meant by 'complex website'. Are you limiting yourself to web applications on dynamic sites? Are you concerned mainly with the presentation aspects of those web apps? Do you cover navigational and other non-app issues? Do you deal with the complexities of the configuration and management of the web sites (DMZ, load balancing, etc.)? Do you talk about application servers? Non-database back ends? Covering all these aspects in three months would be a challenge if you expect them to do any programming at all.
EricPlug: Your favorite non-techie can read Make Easy Money with Google to learn about building blogs and web sites
I'm not currently using a database, no, because there aren't enough links to justify that. Some of the links aren't simple redirects, either, as in when an URL in my book points to a page that is actually a collection of links that the reader can navigate to. If I had a lot of links, I'd automate it like you said, though.
The point is to keep the paper book as current as possible to avoid reader frustration. E-books have the same problem, of course.
And no, you probably wouldn't have seen my books unless you were into some obscure topics like J2ME programming. My latest one is less obscure, although frankly the typical Slashdotter is not the target audience...
EricAs someone who's written books with actual URLs on the printed page, I can understand his desire to have some way to update stale links without having to track down and change every copy. Automatically redirecting is not a big deal -- this is how TinyURL and other similar (and useful) services work. Most of the printed links in my new book (see below) are done in this way to keep them from breaking when the destination site changes things around and they don't bother to redirect incoming links to the correct location.
There is a difference between "redirecting" and "hijacking". Redirection by itself is not hijacking.
EricBuy your dad this book for Father's Day
but you can't forecast the results
But that's true about most marketing initiatives. What makes them nervous is that the posters aren't having their material vetted (like press releases and so on) through the usual corporate processes.
EricMy new AdSense book will be out mid-June
Sigh. I meant "easiest to protect".
rather than formulating a marketing driven non-word for their new product
And yet, if you read articles like Strength of Trademarks you'll see that those "non-word" (aka "fanciful) trademarks are the strongest to protect. So there's a reason for formulating them.
Of course, the challenge with the fanciful names is linking them to the product/service.
EricLatest book: I've written an AdSense book for non-techies
Indeed, see JavaScript is Not Java.
EricNew book out mid-June!
Well, Google has admitted publically that click fraud is a threat to its business, so I'd assume that in the long run they're going to get better at fighting it. Guess we'll see...
As others have already pointed out, Google makes the lion share of its money from ads, though they do sell their search technology itself via things like their search appliances, partnering with companies like Amazon, etc.
I think, though, that one of the keys to Google's success has been its ability to create simple, automated processes wrapped around its technology. Want to promote your stuff? A few screens to fill out and $50 lets you start an AdWords campaign. Want to make money? Cut-and-paste AdSense code onto your website to start displaying relevant ads automatically. Want to integrate search? Use the Google APIs to query Google's main index. Got products to sell? Submit a product feed to get listed in Froogle. Want to index specialized documents? Write a plugin for the Google Desktop tool. And so on... They seem to go to great lengths to make things simpler to do. That's the key part of their culture that has made them successful. IMHO.
Eric(And yes, I have a new book on Google coming out mid-June so obviously I like what they do!)
someone's junk is another's treasure
Which is really why eBay exists and is so profitable!
EricNew book out on June 17th!