Just finished the beta of a share price lookup tool for shareworld. The tool is written in php and will look up price information from yahoo finance and will also return news items relating to the company in question. The tool accepts company name as well as ticker symbol. Take a look at it here
I just tried logging into my Google Adwords account only to find that Googles Ad Center is not compatible with Opera Web Browser. It annoys me when I see that sites don’t support certain browsers – I know Opera only has a small share of the web browser market – about 1% apparently. But I [...]
I have been trying to test how much load my server/website would take in terms of concurrent connections. After looking at a lot of expensive services to achieve this task, I came across a great site called Load Impact – They offer a free stress test for your website which will simulate up to 50 [...]
I had to reload my web server last night after having trouble with plesk, lucky I decided to check the backups first though – as none of them worked! After some investigation I discovered that when the backups were uploaded to 1and1s FTP server, because I hadn’t explicitly selected binary as the transfer mode, the [...]
How do we have such useless companies dominating the broadband/telephone market? As you may have heard, Talk Talk has recently acquired Tiscali and as they proudly state on their website, it makes them the “biggest provider of broadband to British homes” – I think numbers are the ONLY thing they care about and they have [...]
One of my websites (Shareworld.co.uk) has been the repeated victim of spam attacks in the last few days. I have been trying to trace the attacker – the first attack came from 75.101.225.120 which, after a lookup at ip-address.com I found belongs to Amazon Web Services – Elastic Compute Cloud – this is a service provided by [...]
Getting Blacklisted by Yahoo’s Mail Servers is becoming very difficult to resolve! Although our server is not actually on any blacklists and does not partake in spam emailing campaigns, because we did not have Reverse DNS setup correctly, we have been blacklisted by Yahoo. Yahoo are contactable here but when your communicating by online forms [...]