Sometimes you want to get things done right and sometimes you just want to get them done. When you're installing a PHP 5 and Apache 2.2 development setup on Windows Vista using the automatic installers, it may seem like neither one of these is an option. This quick tip is going to save you a lot of time and trouble.

I've been testing the AuctionAds and ShoppingAds services for several months now. Despite some promising results early on (as mentioned in this post), I am very disappointed with the overall results. Over the past six months, I tested a variety of AuctionAds and ShoppingAds ad blocks from in numerous positions on various sites.

It appears that the Google PageRank update (or 'export' to be more exact) that has started and stopped a couple of times over the past weeks is picking up momentum again. We are now showing different page ranks for all of our sites across the various datacenters. This article will provide you with some tools to help you dissect what your site's current page rank is, why it is there, and where it's going. A website's page rank helps determine a site's position in Google's search results for any given search term. Page rank is continually updated internally, but this information is only publicly updated every quarter or so. Because high page ranks can mean big advertising business for websites, the public rollouts are highly anticipated, and many tools have been developed to help predict future page rank scores and to recognize updates as soon as they begin. The following is a list of some sites that let you check your current page rank across various datacenters:

It seems that two potential areas for problems when installing RMagick are the CORE_RL_magick.dll (or other .dll) "not found" error and errors mentioning RMagick.so. Having encountered the "CORE_DL_magick.dll not found" error while working on Datechest.com I know that there's not a lot of information out there about how to fix it.