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The monthly report - August 2003
redemption in a blog received 6701 visits for this month of August 2003. This is also the first time my weblog has gotten a Google PageRank, the first being 3 and finally increased to 5 after the recent Google major update. What can I say? Google loves weblogs!
Most visited entries:
- I'd recently implemented a PHP hack to keep track of the referrers for each entry in this MovableType blog, and it happens to be the most visited entry in my blog (hmm... it even has a PageRank of 4 - must be those trackbacks and backward links).
- Free Classics eBooks was surprisingly well-visited. Must be the word 'free' must have caught some attention.
- DHTML Lemmings - this I can understand. It's Lemmings on your web browser! Lemmings!
- Stumped by regular expressions? Try the Regex Coach points out the very nice Regex Coach.
- Nature's flawed programming - interesting dung beetle trivia.
Other interesting stuff:
- For some unknown reason, pages from https://chuyeow.wtf/ were unlisted on Google for a few weeks. They have started to re-appear in the recent major Google update. Why did they disappear? Some possible reasons I thought of:
- my DNS not working correctly for a time: there was a time when DNS stopped working from several locations, but my host promptly resolved this.
- my updating of blog pages from HTML to .php pages: not likely, but the site did stop being listed almost immediately after I did the switch.
- I'm finding redemption in a blog has made a few people's blogrolls and feed subscriptions (like Bloglines. Who are you people? C'mon introduce yourselves and let me have a peek into why you read my weblog :).
Until next month, and thanks for reading!
Past monthly reports:
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XUL periodic table
Alice Corbin has compiled XUL Periodic Table (requires a Mozilla browser) with all the widgets available in Mozilla XUL. Excellent reference, especially because the source is available at the click of the 'Source' tab. Keep this close at hand whenever you're writing a Mozilla application - you'll thank her for it.
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Mozilla Links newsletter
The "Mozilla Links newsletter":http://newsletter.mozdev.org/ is coming soon - 1st issue to be released on September 2, 2003. The Mozilla Links newsletter is a
biweekly publication covering topics about the Mozilla open source project, the Mozilla Foundation, other Mozilla independent projects, marketing, and mostly anything related to the Mozilla project.
Looking forward to a good read of the latest Mozilla-related news, tips, and "mozdev.org":http://mozdev.org/ projects.
Subscribe by sending an email to newsletter-request@mozilla.org with 'subscribe' in the subject line.
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Stumped by regular expressions? Try the Regex Coach
Peter Bowyer's entry on The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions alerted me to the very excellent Regex Coach.
The Regex Coach allows you to experiment with your regular expression (regex) and quickly determine how it would match your target string. It would be a very useful tool for trying out all any examples in any tutorials or books you may be reading. Also serves as a good testing platform for verifying your regex interactively (as opposed to writing it in your script, running it, and then checking the results). I wish I had this when I was learning regex.
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2nd installment of A Second Voice
Dave Shea has published the 2nd installment of "A Second Voice". This 2nd article is entitled Standards: Designing For the Future by Ian Lloyd. In it, Ian gives a personal account of his experiences promoting Web Standards in the workplace and his thoughts on what's holding people back from accepting and practising them.
As before, I'm posting this in hope it gets passed on as "word of blog". Essential reading for web developers and designers alike.
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