Another cartoon created by creative genius  Matthew Schmoll. 
If you have an idea for a future comic or would like to submit your own BlueFur cartoon let us know in a comment.

We found some news footage on a recent BlueFur spotting.

 

I was using StumbledUpon yesterday and then found this site called PickyDomains. PickyDomains was listed as a company quickly approaching $1 million in sales for 2007. PickyDomains describes their service as…

“If you need a great, memorable, easy to pronounce domain name that exactly describes what your website is all about – you are in the right place. This is what we do. We find available domain names that are descriptive, concise and are easily remembered. And if we can’t find one, or you don’t like any available domain names we suggest – you don’t pay anything.”

So they charge you $50 for this service plus the cost of the domain from what I can tell on their site.

If they are approaching a million dollars in sales that means they have 20,000 customers? If so, that is great, although that means you would have to crank out aproximately 83 domain ideas or so a day. I know myself I would probably  be able to do 1-3 a day.

This also got me thinking, is this a service that we should provide? Do you have trouble finding a good domain? Looking at the domains our customers choose to purchase, I believe that some could use this service.

If this was a service we provided, how should it be structured?

What is PHP?
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is a programming language which allows you to create web applications. PHP is widely used by many developers and is a very easy language to learn to use. There is lots of documentation on PHP at there site on how to use PHP.

Using PHP and HTML Together
You can mix PHP and HTML together in on page. PHP complies or runs on the server before sending to the browser so mixing PHP together with HTML is not a problem. For PHP to work on our servers you will need to save your files with a .php extension instead of a .html (or .htm).

Try the following example. Open up your notepad and enter the following:

 [code='php']



[/code]

Save the file as example.php and upload it to your site. You will see that it outputs in bold Hello World. The print command lets you simply display text or variable on the screen. Notice how the PHP is encased with <?php and ?>. Also make note that after each php line you should have a semicolon.

Stay tuned as we will continue this tutorial with more details on using PHP.

Congratulations to this weeks Matt who own the site mattsblog.ca. He is our third Geek of the week and scores a point towards being Geek of the year. This puts Matthew, Christian and Matt in a 3 way time for first. This weeks questions are:

1. Name 4 of the modular networking architecture layers.
2. What is Linus Torvalds’ middle name?
3. Why are QWERTY keyboards called QWERTY?
4. What PHP code would you use to show the Day on February 12, 2010?
5. What does ICANN stand for?

I am sure we have all seen a plethora of Paid Reviews in February and now at the beginning of March. The topic was brought up by a friend that they feel that all these Reviews are cheeping the experience of visiting that persons blog. When I asked if they felt the same way about commercials on TV or the Radio they said it’s not the same.

Personally I do not mind anything in moderation. If your blog is over run with just Paid Reviews then I most likely will not be a reader.

So this weeks discussion is do paid reviews cheepen the feel of blogs?