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Unexpected Traffic
I woke up this morning to find a nice little surprise waiting for me in my Google Analytics account:
Woah! Where did all that traffic come from? After looking at the referrers, I discovered that the Fake Name Generator was featured on Existenz.se (sort of a Swedish version of I Am Bored, I think..).
So how much money [...]
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Mobile Money
I’ve been wanting to make an iPhone app for the Fake Name Generator for months. The problem is, I don’t own a Mac, an iPhone, and the half dozen developers that have promised to make me an app haven’t actually done so. To make it worse, the Android has come out, creating yet another platform [...]
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What is my IP?
This past weekend I found a fun domain name for a project: ipaddr.es. Yeah, it is missing an “s” at the end, but I think it is still a fun domain.
So I threw up a “what is my IP” style page and am having some fun with it.
What makes IP Addr.es better than the competition? A [...]
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Oracle rocks!
Curtis, an Oracle employee, contacted me a week or two ago to ask for permission to use data from the Fake Name Generator at Oracle. I freely license the data under both a Creative Commons license and the GPLv3. While these licenses are wonderful licenses for people working on open projects, they leave a bit [...]
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I made it!
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 $160 per week with all my sites running off of a shared hosting account. I [...]
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PIC Code Site
When my wife leaves town, I like to spend my time working on websites. With her out of town checking out Rice University, I put some time into a project I’ve been meaning to do for a few months.
A while back I found this site, a very old school ghetto PIC/CIC search site. Having had [...]
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PHP: mysql or mysqli?
As you may know, I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to make the Fake Name Generator as fast as possible. I’ve started using a CDN, I’ve made minor code tweaks (like doing ++$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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Save money AND make your site faster using a CDN
My most popular website, the Fake Name Generator, recently ran into two major problems:
It was using too many server resources.
It wasn’t as fast as I wanted it.
To solve these issues, I turned to SimpleCDN and their awesome “mirror buckets”. Basically you setup a bucket, point it at your base URL (in my case, http://www.fakenamegenerator.com), then [...]
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