Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

Over the past year some online services have popped up offereing busienss owners the ability to spy on their competitors. Spying as in knowing what organic keywords their competitors are ranking for as well as any paid advertisments and those related keywords being used.

I run LiteSpeed on my server and just love the performance it provides. During a recent Apache update the server decided not to restart on its own. After I discovered it I went in to WHM to restart Apache, forgetting that LiteSpeed doesn't restart on its own. Once done, I guess Apache changed some dir/files to "nobody" ownership. Suddenly some sites would not work.

I am working towards releasing a revenue sharing module back to the community. The module is based off a shopping comparison api, much like the Amazon module. This module will allow medium to large sites to leverage their traffic outside of advertising banners, Google Adsense etc.

Every where you read on Drupal.org, Professional Drupal Development book, IRC ect, all of us who know Drupal intimately say "Not to hack core" files. I include core module files with that statement. Here are a couple of reasons why:

"We are currently working on a project for a disaster relief organization. Our client was interested in mapping aggregated disaster relief news over a map." - Development Seed