Alex Pooley's Blog

2010 May
- 23rd
  Parse European Date Formats in Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7
2010 April
- 17th
  Analytical Vs. Creative

2009 November
- 20th
  Cleaning My Whiteboard
2009 September
- 5th
  Business Startup Facts: Lessons Learned
2009 June
- 22nd
  Undefined Method When Testing Rails Plugins With Shoulda
2009 April
- 14th
  Sticky Advertising
- 12th
  Case Study: Long Tail Experiment Results

2008 December
- 21st
  Business Darwinism
- 12th
  Convert From Subversion To Git
2008 October
- 23rd
  Taking Sides and Making Decisions
- 15th
  Startups and 1942
- 9th
  TwoTwenty: Official Signage
2008 September
- 25th
  Baidu Owns Google In China
- 20th
  Fuzzy Searching With Ferret
- 20th
  Sergey Brin Parkinson's Predisposition
- 17th
  New Blog Performance
- 16th
  Perth Ruby On Rails Meet!
- 9th
  Marketing Magnificence
2008 August
- 2nd
  The Achilles Heel of Online Advertising
2008 July
- 17th
  World Vision Update
- 12th
  Flash Wins, Game Over.
2008 June
- 29th
  3.3 Million Pages & Google Video Ads
- 19th
  Don't Rely On Search Engine Traffic
2008 May
- 26th
  You Know You're A Nerd When...
- 23rd
  Two Coding Gotchas: Javascript & Ruby
- 23rd
  The Best Dumbest Idea
- 20th
  SEO With Widgets @ WordPress.org
- 18th
  Ruby Browser Hooks & Facebook Integration Testing
- 15th
  Worlds Most Evil CAPTCHA?
- 13th
  If You Think Adsense Will Make You Rich...
- 9th
  Release: Social Buttons Wordpress Plugin
- 8th
  Google Suggests Spamming Anchor Text
- 5th
  Developing For Social Networks
2008 April
- 21st
  Legitimate Cloaking Technique
- 18th
  PageRank: Ranking Out Links
- 13th
  Game Google With Cloaking
- 9th
  Google App Engine: Shh.. They're Watching
- 4th
  Web Spam Taxonomy Paper
- 2nd
  Your Feedback Needed
2008 March
- 26th
  Google: The God of Data
- 19th
  PHPList TEST Default
2008 February
- 2nd
  CSS Sprite Maker
2008 January
- 30th
  MapReduce: A Sole Traders Perspective

2007 December
- 17th
  Introducing: The Social Welfare Rails Plugin
- 17th
  Social Welfare
- 17th
  Code
- 17th
  Releases
- 11th
  SpyFu Promotional Code
2007 October
- 12th
  Sub List Rails Plugin
2007 August
- 7th
  How To Cross Domain Javascript
2007 July
- 27th
  New Blog Design
- 23rd
  SpeedPPC: Slick Marketing Case Study
- 19th
  The Harmonious Web
2007 June
- 21st
  7 New SpyFu 50% Promo Codes
- 20th
  Speed Up Your JPA Transactions
- 15th
  Duplicate Content: Why It May Not Matter
- 12th
  Advertising Demand Vs Query Demand
2007 May
- 30th
  Wikis Are Hot, Blogs Are Not
- 25th
  Turnip Farming
- 25th
  Google's Hottest Searches
- 21st
  The Problem With Metareality
- 17th
  Sales Letter 101: Foxtel
- 16th
  The Increasingly Longer Tail
- 12th
  SpyFu Discount Promo Codes
- 10th
  IDN Opportunities
2007 April
- 23rd
  All Your Base Are Belong To US China
- 20th
  Google Puts Permission Marketing On Steroids
2007 March
- 30th
  The Real Definition Of Business
- 27th
  Niche Product Recipe
- 26th
  Generate Traffic With Scribd
- 22nd
  Two Growing Niches and One New Website
2007 February
2007 January
- 24th
  Tracking With Technorati
- 20th
  Your Reality Is Wrong
- 18th
  The Problem With Website Analytics Software
- 12th
  Make $1.28 Million Per Word
- 10th
  How To Make Money Online: Blogs
- 6th
  ScribbleHere Live Chat Plugins and Widget
- 5th
  Tagged
- 5th
  Lynx Replies, Alex Responds
- 3rd
  Subtle Advertising With Lynx

2006 December
- 31st
  Good Night, 2006
- 30th
  Outside The Green Zone
- 28th
  ScribbleHere: Socializing The Edge
- 27th
  My Favorite Wordpress Plugins
- 24th
  Synchronized Web 2.0 Growth - April 2006
- 21st
  Ajax Web 2.0 Web Chat Analysis
- 20th
  My Favorite Wordpress Plugins
- 19th
  Contact
- 18th
  My Favorite Wordpress Plugins
- 18th
  My Favorite Wordpress Plugins
- 16th
  Google Stomped On Kiko, Lessons For Startups
- 14th
  Idea Reduction
- 13th
  Random Christmas Cards
- 13th
  Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
- 11th
  Personalised Flyer
- 11th
  I Heart MyBlogLog
- 9th
  Business 2.0 Tripe - Your Potential Success
- 5th
  ScribbleHere Widgets
- 2nd
  ScribbleHere Redesign
- 1st
  Live life!
2006 November
- 26th
  Techcrunched! Sort of...
- 26th
  Scaling Hell
- 13th
  The Problem With S3,EC2, and Web Hosting
- 6th
  ScribbleHere Update
- 2nd
  ScribbleHere Statistics
2006 October
- 30th
  ScribbleHere: Yahoo! Gallery Editors' Pick
- 27th
  Introducing ScribbleHere.com
2006 August
- 6th
  <canvas>
- 4th
  Procrastinate, Now!
- 3rd
  Bias
- 2nd
  The HTTP You Don't Know and the Read/Write Internet.
- 1st
  Trading Comedy
2006 July
- 31st
  ATOM Publishing Protocol + OpenSearch Server
- 31st
  Professional Ten Pin Bowler
- 26th
  Simple, Beautiful
- 24th
  Names, Msgpad, The Future
- 20th
  Piper's Predictions Possibly Preposterous
- 18th
  Quiet...
- 9th
  Typo2WordPress
- 8th
  Pound Config Maker
- 5th
  Blog Down Time, Update
- 4th
  Many Paths, One Life
2006 June
- 29th
  Microsoft Live, Lemmings
- 27th
  OK!
- 27th
  msgpad update
- 25th
  Giving Back
- 24th
  MmMmmmm... Dedicated Hosting
- 22nd
  Public Pads
- 16th
  Ruby On Rails, URL Rewrite with mod_rewrite
- 13th
  Integrating Reality: OpenID
- 12th
  Integrating Reality
- 7th
  Ruby On Rails and Persistent Logins
- 5th
  I'm An Artist
2006 May
- 31st
  Developing Web Applications
- 29th
  So, You Wanna Build A Web App?
- 28th
  Down Time
- 26th
  msgpad beta update
- 26th
  Race Conditions
- 25th
  Web Stew
- 25th
  Stability
- 23rd
  msgpad, Internet Explorer
- 22nd
  Synchronisation
- 21st
  RoR's Erb
- 19th
  Business
- 19th
  Downtime
- 17th
  Google's Web Toolkit
- 13th
  msgpad beta, capistrano
- 12th
  msgpad Beta Begins
- 10th
  MS Vs. Me?
- 5th
  Zoomin
- 4th
  Hello world!
2006 April
- 30th
  Geek Hell
- 26th
  3:30am
- 23rd
  Ruby Coverage Testing - rcov 0.2.0
- 21st
  typo themes
- 20th
  typo edge, dreamhost, feedburner
- 20th
  About
- 18th
  msgpad development, has_and_belongs_to_many
- 16th
  4am... ergh
- 10th
  Traditional Software Vs Web Applications
- 9th
  China... again
- 7th
  Tunnel Vision
- 4th
  msgpad beta
- 4th
  Mozilla + IE6 Javascript Mousewheel
- 3rd
  msgpad
- 2nd
  Success
2006 March
- 30th
  Beware: Zealots and Naysayers Ahead
- 29th
  Object Oriented Javascript and OO JS Callbacks
- 28th
  China's Growth
- 27th
  Complexity
- 26th
  Array.push() in IE
- 26th
  More!
- 23rd
  I'm Back
- 9th
  Wedding
- 8th
  Microsoft Search
- 7th
  A New World
- 6th
  Wikis: Getting Organised
- 5th
  Break
- 2nd
  More OpenID
2006 February
- 28th
  OpenID
- 28th
  100 Posts
- 28th
  From Fantasy To Reality
- 27th
  Dreamhost
- 27th
  Web 2.0
- 25th
  Website Speeds
- 24th
  Hibernate
- 23rd
  Server Hosting
- 20th
  I've Had It.
- 18th
  Education continued...
- 17th
  Education
- 15th
  Putty
- 14th
  Keep Up!
- 13th
  Quote, Questions, and.. Quail?
- 11th
  Pooley P.I.
- 10th
  Google Vs... Me?
- 8th
  Sigh.
- 4th
  F You Global Corporations
- 2nd
  Listen And Learn
- 1st
  Self Deception
2006 January
- 31st
  Entrepreneur Club
- 30th
  In-Ni-vation
- 29th
  Javascript
- 27th
  I'm A Scrooge
- 24th
  Try Before You Buy
- 24th
  Elegant Vs. Mediocre
- 23rd
  Exhausted
- 20th
  Bourse
- 19th
  Lemmings
- 16th
  Interface Spec
- 14th
  My New Trading Blog
- 13th
  Friday.. Woo Hoo!
- 11th
  Apple Fever: Conclusions
- 11th
  Steve came, Steve saw, Steve conquered.
- 9th
  Steve's Keynote and Online MP3 Sales
- 7th
  Apple Fever: Part 2
- 7th
  Google To Sell Video
- 6th
  Google Speculation
- 5th
  Apple Fever: Part 1
- 3rd
  Are You Bulking Or Cutting?
- 1st
  Ruby On Rails Test Coverage

2005 December
- 30th
  More Opportunities On The Internet
- 29th
  Women On The Internet
- 29th
  Business and Trade
- 27th
  Ruby On Rails: Testing
- 25th
  Christmas: The Untold Story
- 24th
  Social Software Failure Factors
- 22nd
  Statistics: On Apple and the Internet
- 22nd
  Inexpensive Advanced Hosting
- 21st
  How To Buy Back Time: The End
- 20th
  How To Buy Back Time: Part 3
- 19th
  Psychology 101
- 18th
  How To Buy Back Time: Part 2
- 16th
  Christmas Party
- 14th
  How To Buy Back Time: Part 1
- 13th
  Pay Your Way To Financial Freedom
- 13th
  Distribution of Internet Traffic
- 12th
  Dojo's WYSIWYG Editor
- 10th
  Back Online Now
- 9th
  Incestuous Networks
- 8th
  Erratic Server Statistics
- 7th
  Cash Cow Follow-up
- 6th
  Cash Cows
- 5th
  HandyTraffic
- 4th
  Google's Adsense Value
- 3rd
  Typo and SQLite
- 1st
  Expired Domain Purchase
- 1st
  Elance Followup
2005 November
- 30th
  Broken iPod Nano Followup
- 28th
  Becoming Wealthy
- 27th
  Getting Your Domain.
- 26th
  Deep In To Domains
- 25th
  More Domain Fun
- 24th
  Expired Domains
- 23rd
  Make Money From Domain Names
- 22nd
  Extremes
- 21st
  I Have Been Spying On You
- 20th
  Time Off
- 19th
  Adsense
- 18th
  Business Ideas Follow Up
- 17th
  Content Driven Sites
- 16th
  Concepts Vs Details
- 15th
  Financial Freedom.. Well, Kind Of
- 15th
  $500 and Your Financial Freedom
- 13th
  Telethon
- 12th
  Day Wasted
- 11th
  Elance Experience Update
- 10th
  The Elance Experience
- 9th
  Increase Click Through Rate
- 9th
  Here's Some Internet Business Opportunities
- 8th
  Dojo Releases Rich Text Editor
- 7th
  Market Research With Google Answers
- 6th
  Accepting Defeat
- 5th
  Making Money From Web 2.0
- 4th
  Trading the FTSE 100, AUD/USD, Apple
- 3rd
  My Faulty iPod
- 3rd
  Generalised Google
- 2nd
  Microsoft Strikes Back
- 1st
  Apple's Bold Moves Are Paying Off
2005 October
- 31st
  Leverage: The double-edged sword
- 30th
  It's About Time

Contact

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