Just Another Dang Blog

I’ve been preparing for the past few months to take the Zend certification for PHP. However I’ve been busy as well with client projects but I plan to take it this year. Here is an interesting chart on the growth of PHP Certified Developers through the years. The growth of PHP developers have been phenomenal [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo! finally closed their web deal which will make Microsoft’s Bing the algorithm to power the Yahoo! search engine. The long rumor is now over and the deal is set for 10 years. This positions both companies to target the search king Google. Yahoo! last year was on a brink of being bought [...]

Since posting last July 22 that I noticed my pagerank vanished and only showed as “No PageRank Information Available”, after doing some investigation on my files I saw that I had an empty robot.txt file, so I added the allow tag back. This could be the culprit,  it could have caused googlebots to not crawl [...]

Have you ever thought about using fonts as a viral tool for marketing your new product? Well apparently in Belguim, Toyota did. They released a new car called Toyota iQ which is a compact car, hired a couple of designers to do the typeface and a pro racecar driver. Had the driver spin the car [...]

Google definitely has alot of tricks rolled up their sleeves, the upcoming Google Chrome OS announced last two weeks ago, which they target to roll out prebundled with netbooks next year. Here is an upcoming online tool that I’m anxious to try – Google Wave which was announced earlier and planned to be released within [...]