Category Archives: Web Development

I’m number 1!

My first big SEO victory came today when SEO Guru  Peter Quinlan pointed out that I know rank at #1 for the term “henry rose”.
If you care even slightly about seo you can check it out and some other stuff about how websites work over at Mechanical Turducken.

I am not a blogger nor an SEO

Deep in my heart I actually think I’m a pretty good writer.  Sure i spit a lot of crap out on to the internet, but when pressed I think I can actually write quite effectively.
Of course if one never writes, ones writing will suffer. It’s possible I’ve spent too much time in the last three [...]

AIM BOTS!! (Henry takes a math test)

When did AIM add even MORE aimbots? I just noticed that it’s gone from just “Moviefone” and “ShoppingBuddy” to a whole slew of worthless bots. Although I am a bit curious about this “Prof Gilzot” Bot, i’ll take the bait.

Well, here’s how my conversation with Prof Gilzot went:
12:29:42 PM hreonsrey: Hello
12:29:42 PM profgilzot: [...]

Facebook App: Bikes

So a while back I was all hott on the plan to make a bike-centric social network, but the market got crowded and I got lazy. But now that Facebook has opened up to third party developers I think i’ve got an opportunity to do it for real.
Keep you eye out for Facebook Bikes!

Google Indexing Content created with JS

Here’s an interesting article discussing whether the googlebots are able to index content published to a page using javascript.
It wasn’t long ago that people were concerned about whether google was indexing dynamic pages created with server-side php/asp/etc. They do. I’m sure they’re working on getting the Javascript content indexed too, but this serves as a [...]

Update

It’s been forever since I’ve posted over here, so, quick update.
For the last month I’ve been working on a game designed to teach teens some consumer skills. It’s bankrolled by the National Consumer’s League and is … almost … really cool.
Anyway it’s bee a lot of php which has been good experience. Also some XML [...]

Henryrose.info redesign

So i’m working on a redesign for the whole site. Obviously the existing design was something i just slapped together to get up.
When it comes down to it my site is like an audition. If it’s bad it reflects really poorly on me. So… the pressure is on.
Man it’s nice to have full control over [...]

Reading: The 1984 Olympic Message System

Today I read the Gould Paper “The 1984 Olympic Message System: a test of behavioral principles of system design”. (PDF from www.tol.oulu.fi) It was an interesting paper from a systems design perspective and I’m hoping I can draw from it some useful points for the designers and builders of modern web applications.
More after the cut, [...]

Walking on Water

Despite the fact that I am in fact an ordained reverend I cannot yet walk on water. Although, google thinks I can:
Google Transit Route from Home to Parents’

OtB Calendar: How my Javascript got fasttracked

So a couple weeks ago I got assigned to build a calendar for On The Boards, a local theater group. It was nothing too spectacular, just a php calendar with a little javascripting for rollovers and for filtering the genre of performances that would be displayed on the calendar.
I didn’t have much javascript experience but [...]