I have no recollection of how I found processing.org but my god did it hold my attention. Had I found Processing about 1/2 years ago I probably wouldn’t know my cloaked redirects from my cloaked directors.

Just one of the amazing outcomes of what seems to be such a phenominal platform for good video and multimedia ideas - Micheal jackson Glove tracking!

This is also a cool idea although I can see either me running off into the desert away from 5px by 5px zombies or me running into a solid wall as I have no other escape. Still simply genius!

All Credits to processing.org for being so phenominal.

directly under “inspiring” - its almost like the company planned it!

In fact if you see this it means I logged in tomorrow morning/afternoon and actually didnt deem it that offensive enough to delete, so horrahhh Im even more fantastic than I thought I was.

Lets get down to it, I am pretty bored of reading the same old seo crap and havent seen any solid seo posts for weeks so what a good time to throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks. Autonomy is a website I happened across, or rather a company which serves the purpose of what it calls “knowledge management” it does this in the corporate sector, but you see a pretty awesome picture of a jet on the page which shows you they mean business. It lead me to thinking in a rather lengthy manner about the Security services, big brother and about ten other conspiricy theory like conundrums.

Now I don’t tend to neigh’say anything that is thinking, without creative thought I wouldnt be able to type this here today, but as the big G (I restrain myself from further publicising them!) and others (is there really many mainstream se’s we need to include anymore?) refine there algorhythyms and SEO finds its place in webdesign I cannot really see the two being seperated. In a years time will anyone purchase or hire a web developer to end up with a website which is not search engine optimised? once you refine a pages on page factors once, then consiquently spend a few minutes once a month is there really any more you can do on page?

Given the spotlight in a networking environment in a years time will anyone be-able to say SEO as a job role without realisation that in fact that is either a munipulative art or simple on page factor editing. Optimising a website for a search engine is in fact a weak role, something of a small percentage of a good pages time, should you have created an excellent content page the seo work on that page should be a fraction of the time spent creating the content - so either an SEO operates above board but needs a ton of pages to be worthy of their cost or some sort of engine munipulation is required, namely offsite.

The development of the big G algorithm (or perhaps this is all Gspin) should as it progresses divide the lines of the above if you ask me, with the munipulatory being the more skilled, risk apt or at least black hat wearing of the two - but the days where SEO is a meaningful title without either the knowledge that white hat stuff is limited and black hat is essentially evil filters down to the plankton that you talk too are numbered - we need to develop (or perhaps it will show itself) a new role, one that is corporate networking friendly but unknown by the masses.

By god I intended to add value but then all i do is talk SEO CRAP.

The fact that I end up talking about my predictions for seo irratates me, as it is not my concern and so many others do it “where will seo be in 10 years”, “how long will it take for my nan to understand seo”. If SEO dies I couldn’t care less - Ill just find another title to hide my black hat under.

Live well people, in ten years time you’ll be moaning about google banning you from public transport not the serps.

Either way I supppppose firefox has served me fairly well despite its memory issues, I do like how when I move computers I don’t have to do sod all other than copy bookmark files etc and I do like tab abuse and the huge collection of fairly well made plugins. I mean lets face it firefox trumps microsofts dishwasher anyday.
In appreciation, and because they are trying to get more people using it so googlezilla becomes even more of a monopoly and gets more dollars per household heres some random photo firefoxage. If you want credit for these images mail my ass @ seounderworld.com

Traditionally proxies fit this bill - adding a barrier between yourself and your deeds much like the infamous “glove box” that stops scientists spilling nuclear stuff all over their fingers. If you are doing a ton of stuff and need a lot of different IP’s second to second, in an automatic style this is probably your best bet, as proxy’s are easy to mess with in code.

Something I have always done though that as I see it has been widely missed or unacknowledged at least, (I am not sure if this is a uk specific thing or whether it counts for all ISP’s) is abuse my ISP.

What I mean is that unless you pay extra with your broadband for a static ip address (likely if your hosting your own) then you are automatically assigned an IP address when your router connects to the ISP. So literally to get a fresh IP address (and I mean completely different - if your with BT for example they have millions to hand out) just disconnect your router and reconnect.

It is physically that simple. I haven’t bothered automating this (although sure a little router hack script would do it simply) but it does work for me - perhaps theres limitations I can’t see - and it doesn’t help if your doing really naughty shiz cos your ISP will still know you.

Still - Widely underused if you ask me

Over the last year though I have got a lot better, because I have done a hell of a lot of it.

“we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

Whether you are just starting at it or your a seasoned pro - the images can be the longest part of the build and design process - so in a nice sort of random way I have over the last year been collecting some helpful images, mostly repeatable backgrounds, headers, some web2 style ones and some excellent backgrounds. You can download them all by clicking the following, but please do realise that I have NO idea where they all came from

Those should help - whether your slinging together something quick and tasteless or your masterpiece blog template. Next up I want to share a great place to find icons. There are a ton of free icons you can use, I never really bothered searching for them but when I came across the following I was happily suprised - excellent when you want to create something quickly that looks like you spent ages on, content management systems etc etc.

Click the Image to go to Sweetie Icon Site

Google webmasters latest post features what is the almost a “how not to film a presentation” guide, in fact thats what I would rename it. “how not to film a presentation, featuring a hot chick talking ip delivery”.

What I don’t get is how they are gonna draw the line between localisation and different content, if we are allowed to provide different content specific to geo localised areas then as the internet expands and ips become more linked with locations (a possibility I think) google is going to have to have either a lot of bots across the world or expect tailored pages that when hashed do not match! “A program such as md5sum or diff can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical.” - but you have said we can geolocalise a bit so they are gonna be different - and surely if we are trying to improve the website for each user is the bot not a user - cloaking is just giving it what it wants (lol) I don’t cloak by the way I’m just a bystander.

It’d be ideal if we could some how embed our zipcode/postalcode into our browsers - giving webmasters real ability to geolocalize - I have built a few sites that use postcode entry on logon but its an imperfect system for countless reasons.

I’d rather be understated and not get raped when I go to the pub with mates

Enjoy this instead:

Harshly stolen from the best place for this shiz - rutomail.com

When I started out learning php, I taught myself, learnt from reading online and practical uses of code - this for me at least is the primary way I can learn anything. Once you reach functional levels where you can do everything you need to be able to do within your personal mandate then all thats left is refinement.

To this end I have been reading some books on the ideals of programming and a more specific look at things.  I came across this in the process:

Procedural Programming versus OOP
Procedural programming often emphasizes writing code that is as concise as possible and coding directly for the end result. In other words, most procedural programming uses targeted groups of functions that immediately address the problem at hand—usually nothing more, and nothing less. In most situations, this gets you extremely efficient and high-performance applications. One of the downsides to this approach is a lack of maintainability. If the project grows large enough, the developer or developers could end up having to maintain a large number of individual functions, and in some cases, the logic of different functions can become confusingly similar. Object-oriented programming (OOP), on the other hand, emphasizes abstract relationships and a hierarchy of related functionality. Similar functionality can all share a common core, making maintenance much easier. Code reuse is increased as well, as you can easily adapt the abstracted base functionality for new tasks. OOP also can aid in large-scale program design, helping encapsulate and categorize the different sets of functionality required by each part of the system. Such organization and modularity can come at a price, however. If your object-oriented system is poorly designed, it can actually be harder to maintain than any of the alternatives. Often, the extreme modularity and “code-heaviness” of object-oriented designs can suffer from poor performance. Once you get past the problems caused by poor object-oriented design, you will find that creating a system using a custom set of PHP objects, or even a full-blown API, can yield benefits that most every developer will appreciate.

Some times its the simplest things that make u stop and go “oh shit I wish I had read that years ago” - turns out in skipping the book reading part of my php self-tutoring I still managed to run in line with the books, although essentially without bothering with OOP. By nature I realise that I have always coded, since I first began messing about, in a procedural way.

Could it be that Procedural and OOP are equivalent to black and white ends of the hat scale? Often we try and get things done as efficiently and quickly as possible, and frankly I have survived up till a few months ago without ever bothering with Classes in php for a substantial number of my projects - the bigger ones though require some thought out planning if they are to work in the long run.

Seems this week I keep starting posts without remembering what I meant to say?!

“If it seems to good to be true - it is” - this is a common phrase but theres another which I hear less of “If it seems to good to be true 9/10 times it is” - I prefer that one personally because with making money online these one off lucky finds, code glitches, manipulations or competition niches are there - but like the gold mining of generations before us they are rare and can take a lot of looking.

When I talk about making money online I do talk from experience, I do make a bit of money online, a reasonable positive balance that is incremental - but as with all these things it won’t happen over night (at least in 999/1000 cases.)

I have had times amongst my years on the case where one night or one page or one small website has been enough to make a happy man of me but that is due to perseverance and odds not curealls and other peoples “wonderful linkbuilding services”, “directory submissions or similar”.

I am beginning to go on here so here’s the point:

You will find the odds of making money a lot easier the more practical knowledge you get in coding. Even if you are in enough liquidity to pay a coder, or coders - you will want to know what your paying them to do. With this in mind there is a few things you SHOULD learn and do before ever asking questions or worrying your not making enough or even expect to make money. If you have a job to go to, family to support, things to do and give yourself other excuses, that’s your trip - but perseverance I am afraid is I think a pre-requisite in this game.

With that LEARN THESE:

• HTML, CSS, Basic web complimentary technologies like ftp, photoshop etc.
• PHP & MySQL - most integral skills in my opinion - LAMP is not necessary you can run it all thru ur windowz
• SEO - What it is, why we do it, how we do it and how you can use the previous two to help

If you learn these basics, read this and other aforementioned blogs then I don’t see how given time and a fair amount of effort, regardless of the colour of your hat you can fail! That is unless your one of those negotive bastards then you shouldnt be here neway!