posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

Earlier this year I obtained Google Adwords Professional status.  This solidified the work that I’ve been doing for years to help companies market on the Internet.   One of the recommendations somewhere along the way was to use a custom landing page for Adwords, with the intent of capturing the user’s information through an online form or motivating them to buy right from that page.  The recommendation calls for a special landing page, specific to [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Reviews

[[Note:  This review was first posted on Slashdot.]]   The Book of Xen (Takemura and Crawford, No Starch Press, 2009) provides an excellent resource for learning about Xen virtualization.  I frequently need to create test environments for examples that appear in various books and magazine articles (in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve never written for the publisher of this book).  In the days before virtualization that meant finding and piecing together hardware.  Like many [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Current Projects

Has it really been that long since I wrote a post?  I’ve been busy migrating to a new server recently and one of the items on the ‘todo’ list was to update the blog software.  In doing so I discovered that I apparently haven’t written anything in the blog since 2008.  Makes me wonder why I have a blog anyway. By way of updates, I’ve been doing various writing and web projects lately.  On the [...Read more...]