I have been up all night working on a new site of mine, PageRank Plus. It is a free google page rank checker. You should all go check it out and give it your support! :D It generates buttons, and a sig showing all the stats about your site and all. Try it out and use it for your own sites and put the buttons up - spread the word!
PageRank Plus Results: www.notanotherportfolio.com
As the final inches of development on P2L finishes, I have started up on my latest own project. Named Tutorial Seek ( www.tutorialseek.com ) - it will be a tutorial search engine. Yes, another tutorial search engine, but guess what! This one is unlike any other. Instead of you submitting tutorials and an administrator approving them, you will submit your SOURCE SITE ONLY and the site does the rest 
Check out the blog on what else is going on and keep your heads up for one heck of a site. Keep in mind that this site will be used as my IB Personal Project in which I need to complete to pass my sophomore year 
It has been a coupole of days since the v3 project has been launched over at Pixel2Life.com. It has been a rough and bumpy ride since, but things are cooling down and all seems well. We were planning on a launch time at 10:00 PM ( -5 Eastern ) the night of August 1st which was all in the clearing. Within about 10 minutes of launch, the box died on us because of some configuration settings that could not handle the load of the awaiting multitude. Tech was called in - rebooted the server and we were back up in an hour with proper tweaks and optimization set. It was pretty frustrating for myself and the rest of the dev team but we pulled through!
Since then, we have been working on getting the server load to a very minimal to ensure that even if we got dugg - we would still be able to survive! Thankfully to some extent, we did not get dugg which is something that we were all worried about that would definately put us in some deap crap. Cache systems have been optimized and queries reduced on some heavy visited pages. Overall, it is probably one of the most minimal and low profile running sites I have developed, being able to display a page with about 1 query.
Ever since the downtime we experienced on the first night, I have been keeping steady watch over the load to ensure that we are getting consistant numbers throughout the day ( even during peak hours ).
Coming up after all this optimization are bug reports that have been submitted by users who visit the site. This is going to be the not so fun part about the project, fixing holes found, css errors, making sure that the site still loads fast, and supports all modern browsers.
Summer is definately coming to a close and I have a knew scope on the web development genre of the internet. I have a great portfolio coming up and its time to produce some more successful projects of my own to rake in the cash! I have some nice and innovative ideas that I would like to take to your screens, so stay tuned.
If you have been keeping up with the headlines over at DanRichard.com and GreyCobra.com, you would of known that today, August 1st 2006 is the launch date of Pixel2Life.com’s Hammer Time project. After months of planning, thousands of lines of code, and late night coffee trips, it is finally here!
Everyone is excited about today - even for myself as a main developer on the HT project. But when is the real time of launch you ask? I am afraid I can’t even answer that one for you fellas as much as I would like. We have to still do some tweaks, optimizations and little things to make sure everything runs smoothly before we allow it to the public.
During the upgrade process, the site will be inaccessible from any direction. I recommend you to keep close watch over DanRichard.com for the latest updates that Dan posts about our progress toward the upgrade completion.
Well, I am off to work, where I can hopefully meet up with Dan and NG later to finish this project and send it packing to your screens! Today is the day, and remember that! So strap on your parachute pants and get ready for Pixel2Life v3 - Hammer Time!
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