I just read a post over at Problogger where Darren says that it is his son’s first birthday. Well, today is my son’s first birthday too! I have a wonderful wife and two kids and I just want to take the time to say that there is almost nothing more important in life [...]

I wrote a post today about why I love MODx for a web development platform, but when I finished it I thought it would be more appropriate to post it in the MODx forums rather than here. It has all of the reasons why I use MODx, and a special thanks to the developers. [...]

One of the tactics for the Ads Project is to brand devtrench with a unique design and logo. That started today when I replaced the current theme with a new logo and color scheme. Future changes will happen to the layout, but this is what I could get done for now.
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I’ve added the All in One SEO Pack plugin to my blog in hopes that it will help with SEO. This plugin allows you to rewrite the title tag for your posts, automagically add a meta description, change the title/description/keywords for your blog home page and use noindex for archives and categories (helps with [...]

There have been two blogs that I’ve been reading lately that have really jump started my knowledge about blogs and blogging. I wanted to take the time to mention them here since I think they are great resources for anyone starting to blog on a regular basis. They have also been a really great [...]

I get so tired of looking at my web statistics in Awstats and then going over to Google Analytics to see the actual traffic to my blog. Why is there such a big difference? One of the reasons is trackback spam, and it affects a lot of WordPress sites. This post isn’t going [...]

For the last three days I’ve been holed up in my room trying to get rid of one of the worst cases of stomach flu I’ve ever had. I can’t remember the last time that it’s felt like I’ve been wrung out and then ran over a few times. When my wife asked, [...]

I just want to make sure I document my changes to the site so that everyone can benefit from them. Here is a list of changes I’ve made to WordPress since my last Ads post:

I’ve pruned old posts. Sorry, no more posts about guitar playing or art. Those are just going to [...]

Well, it’s official, jamesehly.com has been moved to devtrench.com and rebranded as DEVTRENCH (well at least in name). You’ll see a redesign of the header soon to incorporate the new DEVTRENCH logo along with some other graphical/layout changes that will suit the new site better. The site is now poised to grow into [...]

A name is everything. A name can define who you are and what your purpose is. For that reason, part of the jamesehly.com Ads Project is going to be to change the name and domain name of the site. Don’t get me wrong, I like my name, but I don’t think it [...]