Don't Back Down: Linkedelica

Chad Everett offers political and social commentary sprinkled with technical insight, programming tidbits and anything else that comes up.

Easily Add Ratings to Your Site With Outbrain - December 21, 2007

One way to keep visitors involved in what's happening with goings-on at your site is by involving them in what's happening, and one of the more interesting developments in this area is by providing them with the ability to rate your content. Until now, one of the more common ways of doing so for Movable Type was with the Ajax Rating plugin. Mark Carey has done a great job of putting the plugin together, don't get me wrong. But installing the plugin and getting it to work right can sometimes..
http://cxliv.org/2007/12/21/easily_add_ratings_to_your_site_with_outbrain.php

Pair Networks Adds Shared phpMyAdmin Install - December 18, 2007

One of the complaints about pair Networks is that their back-end interface is a little different than a lot of hosts, and I'll have to capitulate on this point. It's not your standard cPanel host - not even a branded one. Instead, pair has developed their own interface, dubbed the Account Control Center, where you log in to do all the necessary tasks related to your account - setting up email accounts (including related tasks), managing databases, files, billing tasks, just about anything you.
http://cxliv.org/2007/12/18/pair_networks_adds_shared_phpmyadmin_install.php

Are Torrents Outpacing Legal Movie Distribution - December 13, 2007

With the holiday season in full swing, it is probably a fair assumption that many of you are going to be purchasing - or receiving - a movie in the coming weeks. If not, then there is a good chance that you will go out and see one this weekend or the weekend after that. Movie distribution is a monster - I have no doubt that illegal music distribution is probably more widespread, but that's only because it's typically faster to download a file that is a couple megabytes in size than it is to...
http://cxliv.org/2007/12/13/are_torrents_outpacing_legal_movie_distribution.php