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Whether you're a web designer or a web programmer, the guiding principles of SEO should always be in the back of your mind. Clean code, semantic markup, and a logical site structure not only improve your chances of being picked up by search engines, but they guarantee an improved online experience for your visitors — and that's what matters.

I've known the guys (and gals) at Sitening for three years now. I've watched them grow from a three-man web development shop to one of the premier SEO experts in the industry. You could do a lot worse than subscribing to their SEO Daily Reading blog. Great stuff.

I think everyone has a core group of artists they grew up listening to — that made an indelible mark on their lives. LeRoi Moore was one of mine.

If you're lucky enough to have a Grand Central account, here's a quick PHP class that will login to your account and dial a phone number. This is probably one of the more random bits of code I've ever written, but I think it's useful.

$gc = new GrandCentral('gc_username', 'gc_password'); $gc->call($your_number, $their_number);

And that's it. Grand Central will call $your_number and connect you to $their_number.

So, you can dial phone numbers from PHP. Now what?

Well, for starters, here's an AppleScript Address Book plugin that will let you dial a contact from your Mac. Or, if you're like me and have lots of conference calls each week, you can attach a script to your iCal events to dial you into the conference number a minute or two prior to the call start time.

As usual, the code is MIT Licensed and available in my Google Code project. Email if you have any questions.

The latest version of VirtualHostX (1.1.0) now supports adding custom Apache directives to your virtual hosts. This was a feature I had been planning on releasing with version 2.0 but decided to add a simple implementation after so many users requested it.

As always, please send in your feedback and report any bugs you find. You can email me directly or use the built-in feedback option from the VirtualHostX menu.

Just a quick reminder that the annual A List Apart survey is online. Web developers are a disparate bunch — statistics like these are a valuable resource. Make sure you take a few minutes and send in your answers.