Christopher Shepherd has created an s3 backup solution using my PHP S3 Class. He’s created 3 classes. S3_Backup will recursively backup an entire directory tree to an S3 bucket, while saving permissions, ownership, and modification times in the S3 metadata fields, S3_Restore will restore a backup made with S3_Backup and S3_Prune will recursively prune data stored in an S3 bucket. Very cool.
Linotype Font Explorer X is a godsend for those of us with too many fonts, and too little time. I’m a switcher, and with OS X came the ability to use Truetype fonts in all your applications. So, I was able to use the oodles of fonts I’ve collected over the years. The application itself kind of reminds me of iTunes. It’s obvious they took a lot of ideas from it and applied to fonts what iTunes does for music.
I’ve made some small updates to my Amazon S3 PHP Class. It now supports the prefix, max-keys, delimeter, and marker parameters for listing objects in buckets. I still need to add the delimeter parameter. The main reason I am posting is because I’ve gotten word that some people are experiencing Signature Match errors when authenticating requests. It’s probably just a parameter ordering problem, but I am unable to replicate the error. If anyone has experienced this problem, please post a comment here. If anyone found a fix, please let me know!
If your are just getting into SEO, or are wondering why your site isn’t showing up in Google results the way you want it, start by trying to understand how Googlebot sees your site. An excellent way to do this is by using your own robot, or a link-checker, to spider your site. I’ve always used Xenu’s Link Sleuth to spider my site. Not only can you find broken or dead links, but you can get some insight into how search engines crawl your site.
Crazy Egg (via mashable) is a new service that allows you to track clicks on pages on your web site. It uses some fancy DHTML to create overlays on your pages that allow you to visualize exactly where users click. It launched a few days ago in beta. The coolest thing about CrazyEgg is the heatmap vizualization.
The site is very slick, easy to use, and beautifully designed (by Bay Area Apples to Oranges. The only drawback is that I think the pricing is a little high for the feature-set. Especially when you can get Google Analytics for free. Google Analytics has a similar site overlay feature, but it’s clunky and never seems to work correctly (sometimes even crashing my browser).
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