Web Programming

Comparing Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Duckduckgo Search Engines

Beren Erchamion
August 18, 2012

Starting in about June I noticed an interesting trend in my traffic – search hits and traffic from google.com tumbled to 0 – no kidding 0. Now I don’t get tons of traffic in the first place, but I get…

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Performance Tuning a Hosted WordPress Blog

Beren Erchamion
August 12, 2012

So you got a hosted WordPress blog and you’re not 100% happy with performance. Even worse you signed a 2 year deal to get a good rate. Now what? Ugh! D’oh! Or use whatever colorful metaphor you would like. Here’s…

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Tarn Aeluin Turns 1 Year Old

Beren Erchamion
July 21, 2012

Its been a year now since I moved from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. In many ways it has been pretty easy to do this, but there’s a lot it. So read on if you are pondering this kind…

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Spring Awakening – Spring 3.1

Beren Erchamion
May 12, 2012

My wife and I saw the musical on Broadway a few years back, but of course I’m talking about a different Spring. Last summer I played around with Spring and Fitbit’s APIs for integration of their device into some apps…

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HTML5 Pt.2 – CSS3 Misery…Making Progress

Beren Erchamion
April 30, 2012

If you read my previous post you’ll know that I ‘m taking a trip down HTML5 lane and at the same time learning about CSS3 compatibility with various browsers. tEh goal is to build a fairly simple, but cross browser…

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More with HTML5

Beren Erchamion
March 11, 2012

HTML5 is getting pretty solid. Its a pretty big advance over the “old school” and I’ll admit I’m not 100% up to speed. Last year I built my first “labs” (www.houseofbeor.net) site with it. Now its time to revamp both…

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