50 years ago this week, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed the patent for a plastic interlocking brick. The brick consisted of a unique stud and tube coupling system which began a building revolution. Years later, people of all ages share in the excitement of building simple creations to space ships as wide a dinner table. The LEGO timeline on Gizmodo shows the history starting with a modest brick. Read the rest of this entry »

Directory Recap benefits both directory owners as well as marketers and webmasters looking to improve their website’s exposure on Google and many other search engines. As a both an article and link directory owner, I know how much of benefit directory submission can be, and Directory Recap is an excellent resource.
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Recently, BrianChappell over at Marketing Pilgrim posted his list of 75+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter. The list was a good slice of the prominent internet marketers. He stated before the list if you weren’t on the list then comment below.

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As the new year comes around I felt it was a good time to get a laptop. However, due to other expenses such as bills, diapers, baby food, etc., a laptop isn’t on the priority list. So, I am appealing to my wonderful readers and asking for your donations so I can purchase a laptop that will serve me well as an SEO and web developer.

Here are the details of the donation drive:

• The goal amount is $1,300. The cost of the MacBook 13″ 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with the memory upgraded to 2GB, tax and shipping.
• All donors will be listed on this page which is linked from the home page.
• Links will remain for one year after the goal has been reached as an thanks to all the donors.
• Donors of $50 or more will be able to include a text link in the donor list below.
• If you choose to donate a functional MacBook or MacBook Pro, I will take the collected amount and donate it to a charity of your choice, in your name.

Thank you very much to all the donors.

Web developers often do repetitive tasks, some of these tasks can be saved as snippets in IDE’s such as Dreamweaver, Eclipse and Homesite to name a few. Here are 21 snippets for ColdFusion developers that will save you time.

Import all of these ColdFusion snippets into your IDE and save some keystrokes and frustration of searching for commonly used chunks of code.
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