Google Summer of Code 2007 Conclusion

The 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code has come to an close. I’m happy to write that each of the four students who worked with Coppermine Photo Gallery have passed. Many thanks to the students for the work on improving Coppermine and hopefully it’s the beginning of not just their work with Coppermine but [...]

Firefox Extension: Search Everywhere

Have you ever been at a web site and wanted to find something on it but couldn’t because the site either lacked search functionality or had a useless one? Did you want a tool to help in your predicament? Here’s one that I’ve found helpful: Search Everywhere by Paul Komarek. It was developed by a [...]

Camping and White Water Rafting Adventure

Outdoor Slumber Party

Earlier this month, I went white water rafting with co-workers as part of a team outing. It was a lot of fun, along with some hard work.

The night before the rafting, we camped nearby to avoid having to do a 3 or 4 hour drive the morning of the rafting [...]

Reduce Duplicate Content in WordPress Archives with robots.txt

My WordPress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/

Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:

/blog/2007/

/blog/2007/07/

/blog/2007/07/21/

/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/

The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor [...]

Linked Custom Search Engines

When I first learned of Linked Custom Search Engines from Google Co-op, I didn’t really get it. When I got the explanation, I then saw the potential.

Previously, to create a custom search engine, we needed to go into a control panel to give Google a list of sites we want it to show results [...]