Webmaster Cookbook Show #3: Official Menu
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 20, 2004
### Show #3: — Mainstream “Safe for work” — (LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) ### [Archive: 
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Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- Toolbars: Google, Yahoo
Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you
started):
- 10 signs your son / daughter is a hacker
Main course (the meat and potatoes of the show):
- what is an FTP program, how and where an FTP program is used in building a website. Spotlight on smartFTP and (familiarity) comparisons to Windows Explorer
- how to use an FTP program (smartFTP) to FTP a local file quickly and easily a website
Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff):
- Jowl starts beta testing PS2 games in the Playstation Underground.
REVIEW: Alien vs. Predator movie (PG-13) Jowl grade: A- ChefTD: B-
The check (what did we learn):
- wrap-up of what was learned on the show
The 3rd Webmaster Cookbook radio show starts at 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm GM
Show #3 summary:
ChefTD and Jowl experience trouble installing smartFTP and discuss knowledge bases and support areas ensues. They install smartFTP on a different computer and discuss how to use login to an FTP server and drag and drop files from Windows Explorer to the smartFTP menu. Next they try and update the orting.com home page to say that the site will be coming in Winter 2005. To their surprise, the site is returning a 500 server error. In fact, no matter what file they upload (in PHP) it returns an error. They call the host of the dedicated server, Cyberwurx, and get live assistance to resolve the issue and then go through how to make the simple change on the page. Jowl and ChefTD go through a list of 10 things that could indicate your son is a hacker and they review the new Alien vs. Predator movie.
show 3
Posted by Jowlstar on Aug 20, 2004
Show 3 wasn’t really bad, but we did have a few dificulties. Like we had to call in the excellent support of Cyberwurx, that is the website. We also had tons of static when we tried to get my Mom on the phone. but besides that it was a good show.
About ChefTD
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 20, 2004
ChefTD is the Webmaster Cookbook name of TDavid, who has been programming professionally since 1999 providing stock and custom programming projects in a wide variety of languages for customers all over the world. He’s done work for sites that do 1 visitor a day and sites that do well in excess of 1 million visitors a day.
ChefTD isn’t truly a Chef, though he has worked through most positions in the restaurant business, including a position as General Manager at age 20 of a restaurant that had over 70 employees, three managers and did sales in excess of one million dollars. He has owned and operated an insurance business offline since 1994 and owns various websites, mostly related to programming and the technical side of webmastering. You can keep up with various things ChefTD is interested in through one of his blogs at Things That … Make You Go Hmm.
ChefTD co-hosts the Webmaster Cookbook radio show along with Jowl LIVE every Friday at 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm GMT with his son, Jowl. You can follow along with them as they go through the recipes for how to build a website and become a webmaster, step-by-step.
With Webmaster Cookbook, ChefTD is trying to create a fun, family-friendly, interactive and easy way for people to learn how to build a website and become productive and profitable webmasters. Tune in every Friday!
About Jowl
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 20, 2004
Jowl is 14 and in the 9th grade. He was elected the 9th grade Vice President by his fellow classmates. He was on the honor roll last year carrying a 3.51 G.P.A and he enjoys movies, tv shows, videogames, computers, writing and reading.
He co-hosts the Webmaster Cookbook radio show LIVE every Friday at 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm GMT with his father, ChefTD. You can follow along with them as they go through the recipes of how to build a website and become a webmaster, step-by-step. Jowl is learning how to build a community-based website using the knowledge contained in these live, interactive lessons.
All entries in Jowl’s Journal are written completely by Jowl — including any spelling errors (but he’s going to work on this area). You can follow along as he discovers various things around the web and increases his webmastering skill.
10 signs your son is a hacker
Posted by ChefTD on Aug 20, 2004
Jowl has been playing this game Runescape and he wants me to check into it more. So I’ve done a little Googling on it and came across this webpage which lists the 10 signs that your son is a hacker. This author doesn’t mention the fact that there are such things as ethical hackers. People who create mods for games, mods for open source programs, etc, they are ethical hackers. Malicious hackers on the other hand … well, I don’t think any parent would want their son (or daughter) to be one of those. Here’s this author’s 10 signs:
1) Has your son asked you to change ISPs?
2) Are you finding programs on your computer that you don’t remember installing?
3) Has your child asked for new hardware? 4) Does your child read hacking manuals? 5) How much time does your child spend using the computer each day?
6) Does your son use Quake?
7) Is your son becoming argumentative and surly in his social behaviour?
Is your son obsessed with “Lunix”?
9) Has your son radically changed his appearance?
10) Is your son struggling academically?
Again, parents should be aware that hacking isn’t necessary bad, not in every case. This type of list makes ethical hackers very angry. Without ethical hackers and generous coders, open source projects would have gained very little to no traction.