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this is just another of the thousands of trackback tests. The original post is available here: http://mayron.net/2005/03/17/another-trackback-test

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There's a new PHP book in preparation by Sebastian Bergmann, that should be ready by may this year.

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It's been rumoured in blogs around, and will soon be launched: Google plans to expose an RSS interface to its Adsense program.

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I guess everybody noticed that Google social networking toy was not included into their corporate solutions homepage.

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Updated: the whole fraud story.
I guess PPC fraud starts to become a real topic nowadays, as slowly engines start to admit the real percentage of fraud in their system. Any adwords advertiser has fraud concerns, as fraud can develop in lack of reaching the online customer and to budget exhaustion. Somehow this mistrust-market does not attract me, so I'll just share my personal experience with it.

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I needed a PHP function to return me a darker HTML colour code. I couldn't find one, therefore I wrote one. So here's a PHP code that randomly creates some HTML colour codes and applies the darkifier function. Here comes the source:

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I bet you great php programmers have no idea what these two functions do:

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Here's a high interest management topic nowadays: the long tail economy. It's the wired article that gives the best overview of the principle. Then there's a blog not saying much, and a lot of blabla

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I guess I'm not the only one trying the latest news for PHP. It's rather annoying to see it empty all the time. Especially when other search terms do issue news results: Java, Perl. Notice that the programming language google promotes; it's there though: Python news.

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Anyone has any ideea how can the gmail email filtes be applied backwards? I got a lot of crap from their adwords api mailing list; I defined an inbox filter to put these emails away, but I couldn't find some way to apply this filter to previously received emails. Maybe I'm plain blind, or there's some usability issue I overlooked.