MangoOrange™

These days many people are turning to the web to make some additional income; however, many people are taking the wrong routes to success..  The honest to goodness truth is that there is a lot of money to be earned on the web, you just have to go about it the right ways..

10 Tips to Making Money Online:

1. At the very beginning you must look to save money whenever possible.  For example, when it comes time to buy web hosting you should purchase web hosting from one of these 10 web hosting companies that offer hosting under $5 a month.
2. Write quality articles or content related to the product or service that you are selling.  In these quality articles promote your product and explain how it could benefit your reader.  (Example: notice how I put a plug in for my web hosting review site above).  It is important that you believe in your product.  I will never promote a business or product unless I think the product/service will benefit others.
3. NEVER buy an ebook... This is a mistake that I have made in the past... Information in ebooks can be found in other locations on the web and most ebooks suggest that you buy another product.. Trust me save your money.
4. RESEARCH.. RESEARCH..RESEARCH.. Before selling a product or service it is important to research the market potential, competition, and potential income.  If you are going to use the arbitrage method make sure you do your math and make sure that it is profitable.
5. Advertise only with reputable companies...  I have used many companies for advertising including Google, Yahoo, Adhere, and many other sites; however, I learned that I have only had success with Google Adwords.  Others may have success with other companies but personally I think other PPC systems have a LOT of fraud.
6. Invest back into your business... A lot of people make the mistake of keeping every dollar they earn. However, in order to grow and be successful and make more money online you must invest back into your business.
7. Never give up.  The first few monthes may be hard but you have to keep at it.   But if you are loosing money its time to stop and figure out what is wrong...
8. If you do not know how to build a website that is ok.  Web hosting providers such as Bluehost and HostMonster include free website builder software.  These two companies also offer easy installation on wordpress which is the route that I would suggest taking.
9. The quickest way to success to make money online is to study your top competitors and find out what they are doing.. And then copy their techniques (not their content).
10. Understand that your success depends on Google...  If you want to make money online you must read google's guidelines and abide by them so that in the long run you can be rewarded with a successful online business.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: Make Money Online

Today I've learned the easiest way to load MySQL data onto RAM. I needed it for my testing purpose and it works fantastically well. I wanted to test the speed of fetching 100,000 data in 26 times. The first time I did, without loading the data onto the ram, it runs around 35 mins for 100,000 resulting in approx 66 queries per second.

After I load the data onto the RAM, it runs at the rate of 8000 queries per second. Tremendous improvement. So how do I do it?

Thank to my friend, I've learnt how to do it. I just need to do a SELECT from the table that contains the 100,000 data, before I run the test codes. It's that simple

written by mangoorange \\ tags: cache, memory, mysql

Ha, my second attempt at designing using Photoshop. Love this tutorial. It looks so professionally done. See it to believe it.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: background, Photoshop, typographic

I have always been programming and did minimal photoshopping effects in designing. It's time for me to further expand my design skill. The first skill I've learn today is the Page Curl effect from Veerle's blog, after being inspired by the article published by Usability Post. It's a very good effects for web designing.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: page curl, Photoshop

Last week, I signed up an account with Webfaction, for my latest Django (sounds like Jungle) adventure. So far, it's one of the few web hosting companies out there that offer support for Django framework and they did a superb job at it. I love them.

A few days back, I wrote my first Django app, Tweeeter, after following a few tutorials. With the app, I think it will be great to get it deployed to have a full experience from programming to deployment. So I followed the tutorial from Webfaction's knowledgebase.

However, I felt the approach has messed up the normal structure that I usually used, which is having apps folder and includes folder in the django project folder. The tutorial shows how to server static files by creating Webfaction's app. So if you have 10 static folders, you will have to create 10 Webfaction's app, which I can't understand why I must do it. So, after hours of trying, with the help of Webfaction's support, it finally works the way I wanted.

So how do I setup my own django app in Webfaction?

I followed exactly what the tutorial said except the part of setting up the static files. Instead of creating multiple apps, I just add the following to the apache/httpd.conf in the djangoproject.

Alias /includes/ /home/username/webapps/webfactionapp/djangoproject/includes/
<Location "/includes">
    SetHandler None
</Location>
 

Alias /media/ /home/username/webapps/webfactionapp/lib/python2.5/django/contrib/admin/media/
<Location "/media">
    SetHandler None
</Location>
 

I hope it's clear enough. If there is any questions, feel free leave it in the comments.

written by mangoorange \\ tags: conf, Django, httpd, Python, static files, webfaction