December 8th, 2007
by
Brett Bumeter
For a year or so now, I have been on again off again playing a really basic game called Exodus 3000. There’s really nothing terribly spectacular about the game. Its graphically about as complex as Tank was on Atari but not exactly as complex as HDMI switches. Strategically its about as demanding as playing the old board game Stratego, but it sucks me in for 10-20 minutes from time to time anyway.
They profess to pay their players for their winnings in real money, but I have never made anything myself. The in game winnings are used to build up my player or something and I never seem to get to the level where you actually make money. Of course, I might play a couple days in a row for 20 minutes at a time and then come back 3 months later so maybe that’s why I don’t make any money. Regardless I go there just to take my mind off the internet a bit.
December 8th, 2007
by
Brett Bumeter
A good friend of mine recommended some JavaScript editing software called Firebug. It not only enables you to edit JavaScript but also CSS and several other types of script. Even better its a Firefox add on!
One of the unique things about software that definitely captured my eye was its ability to work with live website so that you can see the script that you’re editing and its impact live on the website as you’re working with it. This what you do result in what you see editing style can definitely be useful for people that have less experience working with JavaScript. I wouldn’t classify it as a full WYSIWYG, but it does come close to that. I suspect it may have other uses for more advanced coders and scripters as well.
I will let you know when I get to that level with JavaScript and after I have had a chance to put this tool through its paces!
If you have had some experience with this software or with something better, let me know and I will be happy to mention it here and give you full credit for your reference. It doesn’t matter to me who you are or whether or not you are a do-it-yourselfer coder, or a software engineer or even a real estate agent, I’m more interested in what you know.
Firebug
December 8th, 2007
by
Brett Bumeter
I came across a great tool on a website called Advertising for Success. Unfortunately, the website advertising for success has to move because they found themselves in a bad neighborhood. It would appear that Google participates in a practice known as redlining or blacklisting. In the real world, these practices are completely illegal, but on the Internet anything goes unfortunately.
Google applies stigmas much more powerful than the common snobbery or prejudice that you might find in real life. They block people from communicating with each other by excluding them from areas of the internet. They have been doing this for a long time in China, but now it is starting to spread around the rest of the world including within the United States and they are doing it under the guise of only allowing the display of elite websites.
If you want to determine whether or not your site is being labeled as being present within a bad neighborhood, you might try this Great tool mentioned on Advertising for Success. In some regards if you find yourself falling by no fault of your own into a bad internet neighborhood, that tool might help you get out kind of like drug treatment centers help celebrities get out of jail.
Just like in Philadelphia in 1936, when a web neighborhood is identified as undesirable, the web property is rapidly devalued. In these situations it occurs whenever Google says so, or when someone reports the site to Google. So if you have a competitor that wants to blacklist you, they can report you to Google and you could be deemed to be operating in a bad neighborhood. With the processing of some automated robot script, your website is arbitrarily reclassified and you my friend are out of business.
