Monthly Archives: February 2010

I made it!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 8, 2010

I made it! I’ve hit my earnings goal for Corban Works! Back in March 2009, I decided I’d start tracking my online earnings, and set a goal for where I wanted to be. My gross earnings at the time were about $160 per week with all my sites running off of a shared hosting account. [...]

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PIC Code Site

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 6, 2010

When my wife leaves town, I like to spend my time working on websites. With her out of town checking out Rice University, I put some time into a project I’ve been meaning to do for a few months. A while back I found this site, a very old school ghetto PIC/CIC search site. Having [...]

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Unemployment negotiations

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 3, 2010

On Tuesday night, my wife and I discussed my unemployment. Don’t worry, I’m still happily employed. The problem is: I don’t want to be! My goal for a long time has been to make enough money from my own business to be able to quite my day job and work from home full time. My [...]

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PHP: mysql or mysqli?

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 3, 2010

As you may know, I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to make the Fake Name Generator as fast as possible. I’ve started using a CDN, I’ve made minor code tweaks (like doing ++$i instead of $i++), added APC caching, and a bunch of other stuff, but still feel that the core of the [...]

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