A little over a month ago, a new real time search engine entered the scene. It was called Collecta, and while still in Beta, they have announced some big improvements today.
SMX East: Handling CSS, Ajax, And SEO
Since most relevant recommendations are presented as and relate to standard English words, it’s not too hard to understand most of the SEO basics. But stuff relating to CSS and Ajax can get a little confusing, so a session at SMX East tried to focus on a few tips and tricks.
Handling Getting Buried on Digg
From Karoli at Odd Time Signatures comes the story (via The Zero Boss, and prior to that Chris Winfield of the website 10e20) of one Chandler Kent, a 19-year-old college student who wandered into the sights of the Digg bury brigade.
Handling Missing Data
I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp’s some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.
Skype Patches URL Handling Flaw
A vulnerability in Skype’s VoIP software could have permitted file transfers from one Skype user to another without requiring consent from the recipient.
Handling Missing Data in Inputs
Missing data can be very annoying to a programmer. In fact, it is so annoying that very often we’ll write separate programs to clean up data and eliminate unpleasant conditions so that the main program doesn’t have to deal with it. Here, I’ll show some examples of the kind of problems we see.
10 Easy-to-Learn Tips On Handling Interruptions
Imagine this, a co-worker enters your office and says: “Cathy, could I talk with you for a minute? I’m having a real problem with….” You glance at your watch and think of the report that’s due in an hour. What do you do?
Tips for Reducing Costs of Shipping and Handling
If shipping and handling is one of your profit centers, you already know that this can be an expensive and time-consuming aspect of your business operations. Try these tips:
Living With Integrity–Handling Broken Promises
Each and every day, we all make promises. We make these promises in many different ways, and in a variety of forms. A promise can be as simple as “I’ll call you back”, or as committing as “I promise to get that done!”
Handling 404 errors with email – and a twist…
Everyone has seen an HTTP 404 error at some point. You follow a link on a web page, and BOOM – File not found. Perhaps the author spelt it incorrectly, or the page was uploaded to the server by mistake. I’ll show you how to handle this gracefully*, and send an email to yourself so the problem gets fixed. But first, what did I mean when I said “Make money from error handling”?