Been doing a little research of search engine optimization (SEO) and here are couple of great resources and articles I have come across and figured I would share.

Spider Food Forums

SEO Basics

Vanessa’s Quikie SEO

Lots of stuff out there to read. Have fun.

A few others:

SEOmoz.org

SEOChat.com 

and probably thousands more…

Was looking for a way to generate a PDF catalog for ChopperStickers.com so that visitors could download and print out a catalog of all the stickers we have available on the site. Doing some searching around I came across RustyParts HTML_ToPDF PHP class.

Took some tweaking around and I had to install GhostScript and the GhostScript fonts but I got it working and I think it came out pretty nice.

I created a php script to generate a catalog of all the stickers I currently have available, then I pass that to a php script that generates the my pdf catalog. It can be done on the fly but that takes a bit and uses up quite a bit of server resources so I have a cron script that generates an updated catalog once a week.

If you are looking for away to convert other documents to PDF check out this handy online tool. It has a filesize limit of 2MB but other than that it is pretty nice. I have used it to convert the VFR Newsletter from MS Publisher to PDF and it works great.

If you did not already know day light savings time has changed beginning this year (2007).

It will now run from the 2nd weekend in March to the 1st weekend in November. That means that this coming weekend you will need to “spring ahead” one hour on Saturday night.

Your computers clock will also need to be updated so that it will adjust to the new DST.

If you are running Windows you can find information about what you need to do here:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928388

If you are running Linux just do a search on google for your distro +DST and you will find what you need. I am running Fedora and I was able to update the tzdata using yum.

#yum install tzdata.noarch

Use zdump to check you system to make sure the DST changes have been applied.

My timezone is Eastern so just replace the EST5EDT with your timezone (man zdump for more info).

#zdump -v EST5EDT | grep 2007

It’s funny how the news media is reporting this as another possible y2k. Anyway get your systems patched up and you should be fine.

If you are interested in keeping up to date with the latest vulnerabilities and security threats checkout the Qualys @RISK Newsletter. The newsletter is delivered weekly and contains a lot of good information on the latest vulnerabilities and advice on how to fix them. This is a great weekly newsletter and I highly recommend it if you are concerned with keep your systems and network secure.

Another great source for network and computer security information is the US Governments Technical Cyber Security Alerts. There you will find current information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits. Not quite as detailed as the Qualys @RISK Newsletter but still a good resource.