Things have been incedibly busy for me for the last several months.  No worries, there will be updates coming soon.

There's been a lot happening to improve Internet experiences across the Web.  One such advancement comes fom jQuery.  I'll be reviewing jQuery next week, so stay tuned!

The past month of work has been unbelievably busy.  We've been working hard to completely rewrite low level functionality of an existing software system for one of our clients.  Of course the problems with the system were well known and never a top priority... until they were.

All at once everything became high priority.  It seems like the hottest item of the day was changed by the hour.

The following is a guest post from good friend and SEO expert, Amberly Stitzel. She was kind enough to share some interesting thoughts on Search Engine Optimization.

When performing optimization on your website for search engine rankings it is important to keep in mind the blend between optimizing for the "bots" and for users. If you gravitate more towards one than the other then your efforts may only win over one of the aforementioned and could have a lesser affect than both combined.

The next Louisville Geek Dinner is this evening, Monday June 30th.  Unfortunately I won't be able to attend, as there is just too much work left for me to do today.

I got a chance to meet Ben Thomas (founder of Louisville Geek Dinner) at the Louisville Social Media Club meeting earlier this month.  He was very amicable and enthusiastic while talking about all of the projects he's currently involved in.  It sounds like tonight's Louisville Geek Dinner meeting should be well attended.

Here's a description straight from their site:

The purpose of Louisville Geek Dinner is to organize a social networking event for geeks. The original concept came from listening to London Geek Dinner podcasts. The first four Louisville Geek Dinners were quite successful, however there is still potential for significant growth. Let's build an environment like Silicon Valley!

For more information about Louisville Geek Dinner please follow the link below:

http://www.louisvillegeekdinner.com

Join the Weekly Buzz at http://www.buzzmyblog.com!

Jeff at Buzz My Blog is highlighting a new blog every week with the Weekly Buzz.  Blogs are featured in a post at the start of the week and linked to for the next four weeks.  What a great way to have your blog highlighted and generate more traffic.

This is a free service that they are offering by bloggers, for bloggers, to bloggers.  I think this is a great service, so I thought I would pass this along.

You can enter for your chance to win a free spotlight on your blog by following the link below: 

http://www.buzzmyblog.com/post/2008/02/weeklybuzz.aspx?refid=223

Why Google is on top, and how you can benefit from their success.

One of the many secrets to the success of internet giant Google is that they provide useful tools to the internet user.  They didn't rest on the early success of the search engine.  They continued to produce extremely useful tools and products for webmasters, site owners, and bloggers.

Google Trends

Google Trends is a great tool that helps determine the amount of search volume a particular term or phrase. This can help you determine the popularity of a particular term. Information regarding search terms can be a big help when determining which phrases to target in a particular campaign.