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The power of free

Photography studios attract customers with free sittings. Many accounting and professional services offer free consultations. Free quotes for insurance are common. Obviously in these cases, the free portion is the lead. Nobody needs a photographic sitting, they need family photos. Nobody needs just a quote or a consultation, they need tax preparation or insurance or [...]

Read the full article → March 13, 2009

Improve my eBook

In 2003, I needed to build a custom PHP extension for an email tool I was writing in PHP. I found the online documentation to be available but sparse and difficult to grok as it lacked context and examples.
After working through a trial extension and then the actual production extension that we needed, I decided [...]

Read the full article → February 17, 2009