Feed-Squirrel.com
by Neil Middleton 5:27 pm Tuesday, 14 February 2006.

Late last night (Feb 13), our latest project - feed-squirrel.com went live to the masses. Whilst still very much in development (hence the beta moniker) the site has been received to a healthy response from the Coldfusion community.

Over the next few days, we will be adding a few new bits and pieces to the site, and hopefully introducing XML-RPC notification so the site can update a lot quicker than current.

Watch this space…

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Mark Drew presents on CFEclipse at next UKCFUG meeting
by Niklas Richardson 2:40 pm Thursday, 9 February 2006.

The UKCFUG has announced that Mark Drew, active developer in the CFEclipse project, will be presenting at the next UKFUG meeting on Thursday 2nd March 2006 in London.

Mark will be diving into the new features in the upcoming release of CFEclipse and will be showing just why all us Homesite+ and CFStudio users should now move over to CFEclipse.

Read more about the meeting and register on the UK ColdFusion User Group website.

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A new approach to Search Engine Optimisation?
by Neil Middleton 2:00 pm .

You may have read a few days ago about the escapades of Google vs bmw.de. This got me thinking about what Google are trying to acheive by doing this sort of thing, and what the best ways of getting a ranking from it are.

Then I had a thought. Google are only trying to maintain themselves as the search engine that people want to use by removing all the sites that use dirty tricks to get to the top of the rankings. Google purely want the most useful websites to appear at the top-spot, not those that want to be there.

So how do you optimise a site to acheive this? Well, one view that I am starting to have is….don't. Do not optimise your site for search engines. Only optimise for those other people that trawl your website - the users. If you build a site that is great for the users in every way e.g. easy to use and navigate whilst providing useful unique information, Google will find you, and Google will like you more than Mr SEO'ed-up-to-the-eyeballs. Google are spending countless hours trying to find sites just like you&

On a side note&BMW made it back in.

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The Browser Archive
by Neil Middleton 2:54 pm Thursday, 2 February 2006.

Whilst looking more into the second beta release of IE7 yesterday, I came across the browser archive at evolt.org. This little gem appears to have most versions of most browsers from over the years, including a load of standalone versions of 32-bit Internet Explorer.

From what I can tell, there are most versions of most browsers in there (although there are some sizable gaps in the Navigator and Commnuicator arena) so now there should be no reason for a site not to work in a.n.other browser!

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Microsoft release Beta 2 of IE7
by Neil Middleton 12:05 am .

Microsoft yesterday released the next stage of their Internet Explorer development in the guise of Internet Explorer Beta 2.

Having had a look through I cannot see anything that it has that no other browsers such as