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To protect the identity of all parties involved, we will refer to this person as Kelly.

Kelly happened to bless us with this excellent gem, while taking a survey, about how she feels regarding a natural occurrence that usually happens once a day:

18. Which is more romantic: sunrise or sunset?
sunrise . . . they’re rarer.

Thanks Kelly, you won todays Darwin Award.

So the other day I came across this side, Bux.to, which basically is a Pay to click or PTC site. Pretty much, you sign up for an account and they give you links to click everyday to view for at least 30 seconds, where you earn $0.01 per link. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot, however for each person you refer that clicks links, you get $0.01 per link they click. The numbers raise up to $0.0125 if your a premium member.

I have decided to try this out and see if its possible to turn a profit off of it. One of the cool things about this PTC site is that they let you purchased packs of un-referred members to help the process along for you, so if you invest a lot, its possible you could turn huge profits like some of the members already have.

I have just started and here are my current statistics:

I will keep you updated with my progress as well as the long and drawn out payout process.

If your interested in signing up, click the add:

If you’re like me at all, you have run into this issue many times trying to upload your favorite Rails app to your webhost. This can be a very annoying and painful process if you do not understand what is going on exactly so I am going to outline a few tips to follow when attempting to release your new app, and if those tips do not work, I have my final tip that is actually quite useful.

Here is my checklist:

• Uncomment ENV[’RAILS_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ in environment.rb
• log and tmp directories have CHMOD 777 access.
• ALL dispatch files in the public directory are CHMOD 755 at least.
• Make sure the RAILS_GEM_VERSION is set to something installed on the server.
• If you have unpacked any custom gems, make sure your app is loading them properly.
• Make sure any gems you are using are installed on the server.
• Make sure database.yml file is pointed to correct database.

These usually get the job done, and if you still have issues, feel free to comment here and I’ll try and help.

One thing I have done in that past that helps out really well is to use a “skeleton” app. Basically what I do is the following:

1. Run rails <appname>_skeleton where your actual app is going to run. This is the app that your domain name will actually use.
2. Upload the app your working on to some directory on your host.
3. The key part is here. You are going to symbolically link folders from inside your skeleton app and the folders you would like to do are:

• app
• config (Sometimes I link everything inside except the database.yml file and manage it only on the host)
• db
• lib
• test
• vendor
• Everything inside public folder except the dispatch files.

This has come in very useful for me as I do not have to worry about permissions on the dispatch files everything I svn up the public directory and my logs are contained by themself. I can also go into my actual app(not the skeleton one) and just run an svn up. You may have to work with the links a little bit to get it working.

If anyone has any comments on this idea or improvements, I would love to hear them.

Hey all and welcome to my website. I am going to give you a little background on exactly what I am going to mainly focus on. I’m not sure will the site will end up, but here it goes.

I have recently build this webapp, jamzee.com, which basically allows you to create video playlists that you can then put up onto other websites including social networkings sites such as myspace. The site has been live a little over a month and I have increased the page visits about 100 percent since last month. Most of my traffic can be attributed to members posting their playlists on myspace, linkreferral.com and savvyclicks.com.

I have also been working on fine tuning my Google Adwords. I have a hard time getting down the proper SEO skills, but I think in time, I will learn and get better at it. I will continue to post about my progress with you all so that through my learning, you can hopefully get some information out of it that will improve your skills as well.

So until next time….