IT Milk: archive

I turned 20 today. Finally not a teen anymore. About time, right? We went to the Texas Roadhouse in State College, PA and had a good laugh from the fake Texan accents thrown around by the employees. Our waiter was from Mechanicsburg, PA (near Harrisburg) and he was acting like he moved up from the [...]

I wrote earlier this month about my dilemma with programming vs marketing. I can now share some general results since it’s nearly the end of the month.
Transforming from a web 2.0-ish website with cool features built with Django to a complete sales letter incorporating some of the previous features tripled my affiliate commissions for [...]

Being offered for the first time, the SRA 311 Risk Management course makes me excited about my major again. This is remarkably refreshing since past courses like SRA 111/211/221/231 failed to live up to my expectations. Being “guinea pig” courses can be no excuse because this course blows all of them out of the water.
Taught [...]

Australian search engine marketing firm ineedhits just hired Victor Tsen from the global winning team of the Google Online Marketing Challenge 2008. Congrats to Victor for taking advantage of the opportunities coming his way after his accomplishment in the Challenge.
It’s a good PR move for ineedhits since now they can flaunt, as they have done [...]

The next Google Online Marketing Challenge is coming up for 2009. Based on my experience in the Challenge this year, I noticed three major ways to make sure your team has a much better chance of winning.
Keep in mind throughout that the Google Online Marketing Challenge is an “academic” competition. Professors are ultimately responsible for [...]

I was just about to throw away our VCR because it was making an odd rumbling noise when playing a tape. I figured the heads (I think that’s what they’re called) had gone bad because my daughter Kayla had watched way too many Disney movies over the past few months. Then I heard some loose [...]

Is it possible to be a whiz programmer and insightful internet marketer at the same time? How many people do you notice in the industry who manage to accomplish both?
I cracked open one of my copywriting books that I used to be all into last year, and I realized I am not focusing enough on [...]

The following may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how often you need reminders.
Watching the daughter all day is a big challenge, as I’ve discovered over the past two days. I often take my wife’s housewife role for granted. There is literally never a resting moment.
My wife is on a trip to New York [...]

This may be a trivial detail, but, for anyone interested, Facebook bugged out today and revealed its template tags. Do you recognize this syntax?

The simplicity of Django continues to amaze me. Doing a www redirect is as simple as going into your settings.py file and adding:
PREPEND_WWW = True
That’s it!
Prepending www to your domain (e.g. www.itmilk.com instead of itmilk.com) is a basic SEO factor to avoid duplicate copies of your webpages.