a future project

April 11th, 2013

While I’m thinking about it I would like to write the following.

AccumulatedCraigslist ~ give it the subject,. say Celica, and a radius of a zip code, 30,60,90,120,300 and have it setup an hourly cron job to pull down listings.

If it finds new listings it emails to notify you, then you can mark them in the system as hot or not.

RSS Reader, Zip to Craigslist Feature, Cron script running hourly to look for new filters from mySql data; parse searches, etc…

Happy Hour in Ann Arbor Michigan

March 25th, 2013

happyhourannarbor.com – Good drink specials and happy hour listings.

first – no log in was required – amen and hallelujah – second of all it works!

I live in Lansing but work in Ann Arbor. I don’t know the city of Ann Arbor that well as I am confined to just the downtown area.
I tried this site and it actually worked. After trying three other so called happy hour sites, all I got were more ads and generic garbage about nothing.

The site is just for Ann Arbor, however it appears they may also have a national bar locator site too. If anyone reading this checks it out let me know how it is.

it’s Drankbank.com, be careful not to confuse oit with drinkbank as I almost just did in this post.

Cheers!

IE Bug for href=”javascript:

March 21st, 2013

So, if you are a developer like I am, and use very forward thinking code to trigger fun actions like drop-downs and script based navigation you’ve used the href=”javascript:function ” setup before.

Well that doesn’t work in the IE 7, and IE 8 realm, but what happens if you added say a jQuery work around for it so you only have to fix it in one place.

Lets try the folowing
[code]
$(‘a’).each(function(){
if( $(this).attr(“href”) != ” ){
var checkStr = substr($(this).attr(‘href’),0,5);
if( checkStr == ‘javas’ ){
var thisClick = $(this).attr(‘href’);
thisClick = thisClick.explode(‘:’);
$(this).bind(“click”,function(){
thisClick[1];
});
}
});
[/code]

I’m not going to assume it is showing the above code correctly so lets post what it did,.
1) loop through every a tag
2) identify those that have an href
3) if href ~ javascript grab the :function call
4) assign the href:javascript to the this click function of that a
5) test

Search Engine Optimization Ann Arbor Michigan

March 18th, 2013

Looking for seo ann arbor, let me point you to http://www.MichiganSearchEngineOptimization.com this is the defacto SEO in Michigan possibly in the country.

Basically, it is a site by Jay Bale, of jaybale.com the head of Google’s SEO1 group, a group of the top Search Engine Optimization gurus in the world.

So, take a quick look at MI SEO

Where is my google site index

March 14th, 2013

So, google, I’m an SEO, you know this, you love our sites,. however; for some reason you are taking forever to recrawl MichiganSearchEngineOptimization.com this site is a monster.

So, we are waiting for a crawl. lets see if this triggers it.

Replacement eGo Control Boards

March 8th, 2013

http://shop.goodprophets.com/product.sc?productId=236&categoryId=-1

Replace the switch, pcb, control board with a new ego ego-t control board

Where are my google api keys stored?

February 19th, 2013

Google has moved everything api to the https://code.google.com/apis/console/ console.

So the next time you can’t find your api key, just go to your console.

These Pretzels are Making Me Thirsty!

January 30th, 2013

Crawling is such sweet sarrow,. it’s taking a lifetime to make a directory of Sealy Reatilers,…. damn you Sealy…

stylize google voice numbers on pages

January 21st, 2013

So now that phone numbers are clickable you may want to set a default color for the link that is created automatically by most browsers.

For chrome at least I’ve figured out,. span.gc-cs-link{ for the tag holding the phone number. and you are set.

Are you a Google Trend

January 14th, 2013

So out of vanity, I wondered if my name had reached enough search volume to trigger tracking by google trends.

To my surprise, both I and my boss are both being tracked. After an exhaustive search I couldn’t find anyone else from the private sector that is hitting the minimum, but give it a try.

Rob Sandusky is a Google Trend