I’ll be using this blog to share information about software development I’m involved in. Most of my work currently involves developing web sites using either Wordpress for blogs or the combination of Perl, MySQL, HTML::Mason and the Catalyst Framework for Perl. Partly this blog is for me; by writing down things I’m using I’ll help myself remember them and have a good resource to fall back on when I forget them. Partly it’s for you; I hope that by sharing some of the things that I find as I work on my projects will be helpful to other people.

Some of what I’ll get into here will be how to structure your web site so that it plays well with others - Google is the obvious target, but Technorati and general search engine optimization are important too, as well as how to use AJAX techniques appropriately. I’ll also talk about security issues (which can be very interesting when you’re utilizing AJAX)

I’ll talk about how to monetize your work, primarily through the use of Google Adsense, the Amazon Associates program, and Linkshare, which administers affiliate programs for a very large number of companies including Apple and the iTunes store.

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