Passing Time While I Work

July 3rd, 2008

Working from home has it pros and cons (I get to work in my PJs, I’m always at the office, etc.). One of the cons you grow tired of listening to the same music over and over again. Although I have an extensive music collection, when you’re in front of a computer as often [...]

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Deleting Child Nodes of an Element Using JavaScript and the DOM

June 30th, 2008

A common thing to want to do with JavaScript and the DOM is to delete all child elements within a parent element. This could be a table, ordered/unordered list, or select menu. Unfortunately it seems that doing this is a PITA judging by how many people have posted requests for help throughout the Internet.
Here is [...]

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Why I Resigned From the SitePoint.com Forums

June 26th, 2008

Over five years and 24,000 posts later I finally reached a point where I feel it is time for me to resign my position at the SitePoint.com Community Forums.
The primary reason I resigned is I’ve reached that point in my online life where I don’t want to be online so much anymore. Between work [...]

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Domain Authority Does Not Affect Your Rankings

June 23rd, 2008

For those of you who have been living under a rock, domain authority is a popular concept that claims that a domain name that has lots of pages, gets lots of visitors, has lots of links, and is frequently indexed is an authoritative domain and gets special privileges from Google. These privileges supposedly include:

Your pages [...]

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Google Gets It Right With Paid Links

June 20th, 2008

Matt Cutts again asked webmasters to report paid links to Google in his blog. And, as usual, webmasters whined and complained about how Google is asking webmasters to be snitches and that they are arrogant for asking webmasters to do this.
Well, I adamantly support Google doing this and applaud everyone who has report a paid [...]

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