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Ebay Partner Network Xmas Bonus? – EPN Look after their affiliates

December 8, 2009

Those of you that make good money out of eBay probably noticed the downtime last month. For me it had an affect on my epn earnings for around 5 days. The problem (in my case at least) seemed to be with RSS feeds called from php (curl.) But it could simply have been a server […]

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Auction 2 Post Recap

December 7, 2009

Its been a while since I posted my review of Auction 2 Post and I thought I would do a post with my results so far etc. Broadly speaking a2p has been a fairly successful venture, between 5-10 sites, all of which more than pay their way have brought more than 100% ROI on the […]

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2015 – What will technology be in 2015?

December 5, 2009

I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine – around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future […]

Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Ideas, Looking Back, Looking Forward, Music, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology, WoodyLabs Tagged Music, Pico Projectors, Sci-Fi

Auction 2 Post

October 11, 2009

The reason I am writing about this WordPress plugin is long winded, but essentially a while back I wrote a website which featured a hand picked 3 best auctions in certain categories from ebay and posted them to a custom themed WordPress blog, the idea being that people could see the 3 most expensive cars […]

Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged Auction2Post, ebay partner network

xp_fileexist Network Drive – T SQL Based File checking

May 7, 2009

If you didn’t already know you can check whether files exist, find file sizes and all sorts of other useful things directly from within Transactional SQL Query. In this example I had a table containing a few columns that gave me the network drive location and filename of a few thousand files and I wanted […]

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Looking Back – Major Project 07

April 5, 2009

Wheels Near U My first major bespoke project written primarily in PHP although ultimately encompassing javascript, css, html, java applets, flash and some server based command line utilities. Wheels-Near-U was developed as an All-in hyper-localised motoring-web portal. Written completly autonomously within roughly 12 months with several large project revisions. It came together quite nicely considering […]

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Facebook and Banter_ID

January 11, 2009

Traditionally you are meant to be as descriptive as possible in your coding of parameters/variables – this is something I have often overlooked in pursuit of quicker prodecural work. Either way Facebook have shown their origins with their latest descriptor for a thread between too friends ( a wall to wall view ) with banter_id. […]

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