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Top Commentators Beat the Crap out of Do Follow

Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either. I got on my blog today and noticed the Do Follow plugin was in serious bad shape. As I looked around, I caught the new kid on the block, Show Top Commentators, red handed…literally…bloody knuckels and all. Since Do Follow was obviously down for the count, and STC wasn’t backing down, all I could do was award him the top seat in the sidebar. So there he sits, on the sidebar of every page, waiting for your comments. Use him wisely.

I couldn’t leave STC off the hook without some method of recourse so I gave him a swift kick in the nuts to remember me by. That reconfigured his source a bit so we’ll see how he shows up now. Nobody messes with the General.

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Category: Announcements | 339 views | Posted: January 3rd 2008 05:01 pm

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8 Things I Learned on My Blogging Sabbatical

Ok, so I really didn’t take an official blogging sabbatical (i.e. I didn’t go anywhere), but during part of November and the month of December I pretty much took a break from blogging. I just needed to take a breather from the intense schedule I created for myself to get this blog going, and it was well deserved and well worth it.

While I was out, I did tons of reading, started working on a new site, and did a lot of relaxing and reflecting. Here’s my list-o-seven things I learned:

  1. Money doesn’t drive me, learning does. I’ve always been this way and just have a constant need to learn something new. If I’m not learning something new, I get bored really fast, and I hate being bored.
  2. Making money online is hard work. No matter what you read, unless you are being lead step-by-step through something by someone who has done it before, then making significant amounts of cash (with zero capital to spend) is going to be hard work. Scratch that, the work isn’t really hard, it’s just time consuming. It takes a lot of reading and applying what you have learned and starting over when you fail to get good at it. So making money online is time consuming.
  3. This is not a make money online blog, but I want to make money online. DEVTRENCH didn’t start out as a make money online blog but I sure write about it a lot. It’s an interesting topic that I’ll probably continue to write about, but less frequently. The focus of DEVTRENCH in the future will be more on the topic of how I do web development.

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    Category: Announcements | 622 views | Posted: December 31st 2007 02:19 pm

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Christmas Blogging Slowdown and Future Improvements

Well, Christmas is almost here as well as my 29th birthday! I like to spend more time with my family around this time of the year so that means that I’ll be slowing down posting until the new year. I’ve had quite a few projects the last two months that have really taken my attention away from this blog, and it’s made me realize that DEVTRENCH is going to have to morph into something new for me to sustain it like I want to. In fact, this blog has really gotten away from my initial thoughts of what I wanted for this site. In the next few months you’ll see changes to this site that will reflect those initial intentions and changes that will make the site more useful for the long haul. That’s all I really want to say for now, so have a Merry Christmas!

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Category: Announcements | 755 views | Posted: December 7th 2007 02:21 pm

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