Archive for Michael Lankton
Michael was a bass player in a hardcore punk band in the 80's and spent the 90's building and riding custom Harleys. As strange a combination as it may seem, Mike also has some coder and sysadmin in his history as well. At 42 Mike's now a husband and dad, and works as a Corrections Officer in a maximum security lockdown unit by day, and is admin at AV Enthusiast and contributor to Connected Internet when time allows. Mike is also passionate about food and travel.
5 Existential Blogging Tips
Most of us want to turn a buck with our web sites. Even if your motivation for producing the site isn’t monetary, profitability is an undeniable yardstick for success.
Traffic determines just how much success your site is going to enjoy. Traffic is a reflection of how well you’ve done optimizing your site for search engines, [...]
Exporting and Importing a MySQL Database
At some juncture you will be faced with the task of moving an existing website from one server to another. It’s an easy enough task to make a backup and transfer your website’s public_html directory to a new server, but all of your content lives in a MySQL database, and you will need to bring [...]
6Mar2008 | Michael Lankton | 3 comments | Continued
Are You The Master Of Your Own Domain?
Who owns your domain? Is it you? It better be. If you are not listed as the registrant in your domain registry, it may spell trouble for you down the road.
A lot of you reading this may have shared hosting accounts. For you, chances are that your host picked up the tab on your domain [...]
Refresher Course: The Free Unix Desktop
I have been using a Mac at home since 2002. Prior to that I had been a big NeXT guy, and my home network always consisted of a mix of OPENSTEP and FreeBSD boxes, with the occasional partition devoted to Windows for gaming.
My hosting costs just skyrocketed after a friend and I decided to share [...]
Site Growth And Hosting Options
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones that landed with a decent host, but most of you will probably agree with me when I say SHARED HOSTING SUCKS.
Shared hosting is perfect for a lightly-trafficked site that doesn’t see a lot of concurrent users. No one would argue that paying $6-$10 a month for your [...]
Remembering The Sega Saturn
Videogames evoke a nostalgic response in many of us. They take you back to a different time; fond memories of what you were doing back then, and the immersive experiences you enjoyed while playing them.
In the mid-90s the Sony Playstation achieved dominance with a game buying public crazy for 3D. So lopsided was the Playstation’s [...]
Yahoo Board Rejects Microsoft’s Bid
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s board will be declining Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion USD.
Yahoo will be sending their decision to Microsoft on Monday. Microsoft’s offer equates to $31 a share, and according to the Wall Street Journal’s source, Yahoo is looking for an offer of $40 a share or greater. The initial [...]
On Microsoft, Google and Fear
Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half of 2007. Yahoo, if not the most used search engine, is still the number one stop on the internet, edging out Google in overall traffic, [...]
2Feb2008 | Michael Lankton | 5 comments | Continued
4 Exceptional Commercial Wordpress Themes
Wordpress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free Wordpress theme, and most of the successful bloggers who do use a commercial theme paid for a one-off design, or had one made for them gratis. More and more CMS style [...]
27Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
Joomla! 1.5 Stable Released
Two and a half years of development came to fruition today, when it was announced that Joomla! 1.5 Stable was made available for download.
Joomla! 1.5 is a major rewrite of the core Joomla! codebase, which was forked from Mambo on August 17, 2005. Joomla! 1.0.x retained a great measure of compatibility with Mambo, but Joomla! [...]
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