Onyxbits

When releasing the scenepainter setup utility yesterday, I was, upon notifying people, asked the question of how to actually compile and use threering's nenya library for own projects. Simple question, not so simple answer. Digging through the API can be quite time consuming. Luckily, I remembered having written a quick "tutorial" about the subject earlier this year, I just never got around to publish it until now. So with a few months delay, here it is.

One of my daily activities includes going through my webserver logs and statistics. I most certainly cannot deny being quite curious about how and why people end up on my website as well as what it is, they wanted in the first place. What I find especially insightful in this regard are search engine referrers. They typically do not only provide keywords for ideas to write new articles about, but also show what real people are actually looking for.

With Google knowing over a billion pages by now, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become more important then ever in order for websites to be found by their target audience. Usually it's rather obvious from Google's webmaster quality guidelines what has to be done to get a good ranking, the tricky part however is not to forget a crucial component. So here is a checklist of things to do when using the Drupal CMS:

I suppose occasionally, there probably should be a non tech topic even on a tech centric website.

While looking for something to write about the other day, I found an old notebook of mine in a drawer. Flipping through the pages turned up a funny candy recipe, I came up with in those days in order to teach some fellow classmates a lesson. Now, the story behind that entry is probably to sweet no to be shared and likely very inspiring to the mischievous mind and so here it is.

As my site is slowly filling with content, I have been monitoring access statistics closely to measure popularity. One thing I noticed is, that a lot of people coming here seem to have software installed on their computer, which is probably not in their best interest. To be more precise, I see a lot of browsers announcing, that they run something called "FunWebProducts". More information on what this is, why one might want to get rid of it and how can be found on wikipedia.