http://www.anty.info A busy guys notes on web development. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:55:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found the following story somewhere on the Internet. I couldn't find the original author, so I'm republishing it here for your entertainment. Enjoy! From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this: What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give more than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say ... http://www.anty.info/2008/06/24/giving-more-than-100-percent/ When I'm tired I tend to cross read blog posts in my feedreader. This way I just found an interesting screencast in Chris Hartjes' blog which I thought I should mention here: 6 Steps to a perfect deployment. Chris explains how he's deploying web applications and why you should follow this ... http://www.anty.info/2008/05/21/what-to-consider-when-deploying-web-apps/ Are you into web design? Regardless if you are just creating small templates for your blogs or if you already design websites for clients - You will benefit from Sitepoints free Photoshop book! Download the PDF "The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques" right now! After you submit your mail ... http://www.anty.info/2008/05/19/free-photoshop-ebook/ Don't believe everything written in a fortune cookie! Todays xkcd comic also deals with fortune cookies :) http://www.anty.info/2008/05/19/fortune-cookie/ Those, who read my twitter feed know it already: I've won a Poker Chip Set some days ago. It was pure luck that I got the answer first. Today I had some guests and we introduced the new chip set. Although I now have dark gray wild-berry-vodka sprinkles on my white ... http://www.anty.info/2008/05/03/my-new-poker-chip-set-in-action/ I was really stunned when I discovered how cheap it is to send 10 million spam mails a day. You have to pay 600$ and get 10 Million spam-mails to their receivers. Imagine what you would make if one of 1000 receivers would buy your "cheap Viagra generic". If you ... http://www.anty.info/2008/03/29/what-you-pay-for-sending-10-million-spam-mails-a-day/ I just finished developing a newsletter-script for a client. I encountered some problems during the development and want to publish the solutions here. I used Zend_Mail and Zend_Mime to create HTML-mails with inline images. I used the last stable Zend Framework version available right now: 1.0.3. Microsoft Outlook 2007 displays odd characters, Thunderbird ... http://www.anty.info/2008/02/18/zend_mail-obstacles/ I was just banned from Google Suggest for scraping their keyphrases. I guess 100 simultaneous requests over a minute raises the red flag. I'm not 100% sure if it was the amount of requests, the duplicate keyphrases, or both combined, that lead to the ban. However, I made the experience in ... http://www.anty.info/2007/12/18/google-suggest-banning/ Do you remember the last project you've started where you've lost your focus? I certainly can. If you've read "Think and grow rich" from Napoleon Hill you probably remember that great success comes after all these small setbacks. The people who had success in realizing their goals all had one thing in ... http://www.anty.info/2007/12/07/keep-focused/ Yesterday a scriptkiddy defaced nearly all of my sites. You must be a real skilled cracker to press a button to search for vulnerable servers and another one to execute the defacement script... I'm still angry about this, but I see it as a chance to begin with a new and clean ... http://www.anty.info/2007/12/03/scriptkiddies-defaced-my-sites/