I almost switched my blog to WordPress today, I even imported all the data and started modifying content, but at the end of the day it just did not work out.
I think it came down to the fact that I would be spending too much time configuring the tool and it would not do everything [...]

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I like PHP but as you know I don't care much for the so called “frameworks” out there. But why are they so popular? Heck my fellow APress friends have even published a book on Symfony, so it can't be that bad right?

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I have started to create my own PHP framework, mainly because I will know what's going on with the code and secondly because it should not take that much longer than learning a framework that might be obsolete in a year or so anyway. This series of post will be about how to create your [...]

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I have just built 2 sites using WordPress. CodeGin.com, my tech blog about software engineering stuff, and ColumbusRobotics.org, our robotics club. I think if I get some time I might even move my site to WordPress, just so that I don't have to think about the code, etc.
It's some nice software as far as blogging [...]

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All sites .Net, .Org, and .Com will reside here at ScottPreston.Com. Instead my technical blog will be something all together different, which I will update when I figure it out…
Also, I have found a nice Blog Post by Guy Kawasaki called "How to Evangelize a Blog", which made me realize this is more of a [...]

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I was working on a quick little google rank hack that I could run via batch / shell. It would take 2 args site, and keywords. It's only 28 lines, but works and is fast. Enjoy.
<?php
if (count($argv) != 3) {
echo count($argv) . "\n";
echo "\n ERROR: usage php googlerank2.php [site] [keyword(s)]\n";
die();
}
$sitename = $argv[1];
$q = $argv[2];
$start = [...]

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I have stopped updating my .com site for a bit to redo it with a more technical version. I will soon update this site with a more current look & feel and some FLICKR images.

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I have decided to give my site a shake-up. I will soon be posting
personal blogs to www.scottpreston.org, and I
will post my technical blogs book reviews, amazon stuff, etc at scottpreston.com. I will also
be posting some photos a flickr and directly in my blog vs having a
separate pics site. Since it has zero traffic.
I will keep [...]

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Over the past few weeks / months I have worked on a site for Osburn Associates called www.reflectivesignsheeting.com. This was a custom developed Shopping Cart extended from my site www.prestonresearch.com. I thought I would add these to increase their Google Rank.
The house hunting is going well in 43212, however, they are getting snatched up very [...]

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I have spent the past week getting my robot pages moved to scottsbots.com. I have also been using my own home grown content management system which I have found useful and cumbersome at the same time.
In other news I would like to thank Randal Rust for helping to get me into PHP.

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