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A Fair Proposal to Domain Squatters

Before I registered eddieringle.com, I intended on registering ringle.com, for the sake of keeping things short. (I suppose this blog’s URL would be Pirillo-style: eddie.ringle.com.) Unfortunately, like many domain names, ringle.com was bought up by a domain squatter who puts up standard pages filled with sponsored links. I have seen too many good domains be [...]

Rewriting for RESTful URLs in Apache and Nginx

In my last post, I shared my issues with Apache ignoring the .htaccess file. The reason I was using .htaccess was to create RESTful URLs for my PHP app. I thought that now would be a good time to show how easy it is to do this.
First off, I’ll start by showing you how to [...]

From FeedBurner To Google: MyBrand And A 404 Error (Part 3)

The troubles are finally over, because Google has implemented what looks to be their final solution to the MyBrand 404 error issue. The CNAME record you have set for your feed right now is probably something like, an obfuscated form of your email followed by the google subdomain for FeedBurner. Now, instead of your obfuscated [...]