I will be participating in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life event on April 16-17. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. It’s going to a great cause and any amount donated will help regardless of how much. So if you would like to make a donation please visit the link below.

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/don.lacuran

The 2 most comment types of redirects are the permanent redirect (301) and the temporary redirect (302). There are some other types of redirects, but for the most part you should never need to use them. Introduced in HTTP 1.1 is a new temporary redirect (307). For now I would stay away from using it just in case a bot decides to crawl your site using HTTP 1.0 requests.

Permanent redirects are great if you have moved a page on a server or if you have moved to a new domain name. This way all of your page rank is transferred through to the new page. Using the permanent redirect is search engine friendly.

Temporary redirects are good for affiliate links or links that may change around from time to time. No page rank is passed through a temporary redirect.

Below are some examples of how to use PHP and .htaccess to achieve these redirects. But obviously, don’t stick all of those header() calls at the top of one page, you only need one. Also you can redirect off your domain to a new one as well, but remember to use a temporary redirect unless you know for sure it is a permanent move. Read more…

Working with Sevenpixels has been a great experience. They provide excellent communication, prompt technical support and great graphics that not only meets but exceeds our standards in the high-demand racing industry.

Jon Kaase Racing Engines

There are a few different ways to go about compressing your javascript and CSS files. Most of them require you to edit your.js and .css files to include some PHP to compress the files.  Another common method has you create a PHP file that will include all of the .js or .css files and then output the results. All of these methods require you to make changes to the files. This can become a hassle if you add new files in, they need to have the changes made or you need to remember to include them in the main PHP file you made.

But here is a real easy way to include it and it only requires you to edit your .htaccess and your server has to have Apache compiled with mod_deflate. Check out the code for your .htaccess after the jump. Read more…

I have 25 Google Wave invites to hand out.  So far I’ve been using it here and there, but really haven’t found a great purpose for it yet.  I’m sure I will run into it one day but for now, it’s kind of just a cool toy to play around with.

If you are looking for an invite, please leave a comment with a valid email address and I will send the invite to that address.