by Brian on October 9, 2011
This is mainly for me own reference, but it is probably something that other people will find useful. If you attempt to use the rlcompleter module on the Mac you’ll find that tab completion does not work correctly. Apparently this is because Apple ship a neutered version of readline.
To get completion working you have to use a different argument to readline.parse_and_bind(). The base example uses:
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
Change that line to:
readline.parse_and_bind ("bind ^I rl_complete")
by Brian on September 27, 2011
I’ve spent a fairly big chunk of my professional career building public websites for a number of clients. One of the things that comes up again and again is search engine optimisation.
Surprisingly there is very little coverage of this is in business and marketing journals. Patrick Reid wanted to start raise awareness, and needed my technical help in preparing a paper. We finished it up earlier this year and it was published in the Journal of Strategic Management Education.
Corporate Communications in the FTSE 100: Evidence using Search Engines
JSME Vol 7: Issue 1, 2011
Patrick Reid (Greenwich School of Management, UK), Brian Lyttle (LiquidHub, Inc., USA)
Search engines have become an essential tool for information seekers on the world wide web. This makes it critical that company websites are optimised to achieve the highest possible ranking across the major search engines, in particular Google, ensuring maximum exposure and subsequent awareness. This paper identifies key factors in search engine optimisation and then analyses a sample of the largest 10 firms listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The findings reveal a lack of adoption of best practices which will impact on their search rankings. The paper also discusses tradeoffs inherent in search engine optimisation and draws out key implications for managers and academics.
The full paper is available from the Senate Hall site.
