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My latest article has just been published over at the Amazon Developer Center. The article in question walks you through the steps of building a small office backup system using PHP (and then multithreading it using another tool like Perl). If you’re not familiar with all the great Amazon web services available, S3 (or Simple Storage Service) is a high-availability, high-bandwidth third-party storage system in which you literally pay pennies on the GB for file storage.

Check out the story, and let me know what you think. Also available as PDF.

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Well, it’s finally live! My O’Reilly Shortcut on online lead generation is finally live. This ebook is the culmination of about five years worth of trial and error on my part trying to turn (some aspects of) small business marketing into a systematic, repeatable process.

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Here’s another errata notice. Sharp-eyed reader in the Netherlands Andries Blauuw noticed that rpcserver.php wasn’t working too well.

On line 18, he saw this line as the culprit:


while (($file = readdir($handle)) !== FALSE)) {


Andries removed the extra parentheses after FALSE and ended up with:


while (($file = readdir($handle)) !== FALSE) {


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