Part 1 - Programs Every Developer Should Have

Word 2003 (Warez Portable Prefered)

Notepad++ (Latest Prefered)
Firefox 2.0.0.14+ (Latest Prefered) (FireFox 3 Final when released)

–ADDONS-

• FireFTP (Latest)
• Web Developer
• Dom Inspector

WampServer 2 (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin and more)

–ADDONS-

• Download the latest PHP 4.4.x package
• Download the latest PHP 5.0.x package
• Download the latest PHP 5.1.x package
• Comes defaulty with PHP 5.2.6 which is good
• Download Apache 2.0.63 and enable it, because it works with all versions of PHP.

Mozilla Thunderbird (Latest version Prefered)

Foobar200 MP3 Player (It’s a silent mp3 player that don’t touch your CPU at all which makes it very ultimate, you can find it here: http://www.foobar2000.org/ and many people get bored like the rest of us will when programming keep your self intertained)

PhotoshopCS or 7 (Theres a lot of torrents for these two, I prefer any of them)
MS Paint (Great for quick screen shots)

NOD32 (Very good anti virus, its incredible, just download the trial and get a patch ;))

uTorrent (For ebooks and what not, pretty decent usage)

How To: Get Mod Rewrite working on Xampp

Want a workable test environment on your Xampp server to use mod rewritten urls for seo purposes? After doing some great research its easy as pie.
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Web Development and Meta Tags

I know people are tired of hearing these SEO tips and all, but this is useful and I’m pretty sure no one explains how to use the description in this way.

Maximum Google Meta Tag Description Characters

Yes thats right, Google has a maximum amount of characters that it displays on the search index. I been doing some studying and Google’s max characters is around 154-157. Even though this is Google’s maximum length, this will still be effective in other search engines also.

Effective Meta Tag Description

In order to have a pretty effective description you must use 2-3 of your most used keywords in your description at least twice, any more or any less will fail to get you high SERPS. Then again you got to make sure to get an effective description in under 157 characters, use as many characters as possible, but try to keep it to the maximum.

Meta Tag Description Dont’s

Do not use extra characters such as “….” or multiple spaces because it can hurt your ranking, because you lose those extra characters that you could have used to describe your website or an extra keyword that you could have used.