Best Buys Zone or Best Buys Zone UK lately but they were the sites that gave me the initial idea for Early Miser - compare everywhere at once. Best Buys Zone was a project a built a few years ago with the help of a top notch Russian programmer. It pioneered or rather completely invented the category of shopping by RSS.
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Six Apart the latest version of Movable Type (3.34) is a great improvement over the previous version I was running. Updating and changing templates was a snap. I now use the the Style Catcher plugin for managing styles and it's a great help. I will be making changes to the templates over the next week but this template is a great improvement over the template "inspired" by Craig Newmark.
Early Miser - compare everywhere. If I really had to take a stab at why they closed I suspect they found that many of the Live features didn't really add to the customer experience.
Drupal installations this weekend. Already I am beginning to dread the preparation. While I have have spoken about how much I liked Drupal, it's apparent that they are going through growing pains and should re-assess their coding practices.
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fighting comment spam in MT. Here's how Drupal deals with comment spam. There's also the comment spam service Akismet and a link to one blogger's experience with Akismet
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John Chow's blog largely because he's a pretty good writer and I always like reading good writers. I really wish he would do more reviews for The Tech Zone. One thing I have noticed though, John's recent posts about Agloco have toned down the rhetoric quite a bit.
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canonical urls. This was a problem where you had to make sure your link building efforts were consistent and always had the same URL. I thought a year ago something like shouldn't have been the problem that it actually was. Well Google has finally set their own set of tools at Google's Webmaster Tools and one of the tools is a simple tool allowing you to tell Google what URL to use for your site.
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Earlymiser. While I can probably continue development by myself, I would like to continue with someone else on the team.
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