Alek had Google Adsense running – did I “clean up” from all the Slashdot traffic?
One person asked me if I made a much money from the Google Adsense ads that are on the site. Unfortunately, the Terms of Service do not allow you to disclose (basically) ANY information. But as you are only paid on click-thru’s, not ad impressions. So while the later went up by (a LOT!), the click-thru percentage (no surprise) plummented, and lets just say that the net “dollar delta” allows me to go out to a not-very fancy dinner, but probably not a movie. Adsense is a cool program (those Google guys are smart), and while I’m sure others are making lotsa money with it, I do it to basically just pay the ISP bills and just general playing around. For the coders out there – be sure to think about and handle race conditions – they DO happen! If you have never dealt with race conditions, The Slashdot Effect is certainly a good test of your code. A classic (but flawed) approach to file locking is checking to see if a file exists, and if not, creating it … but that is not an atomic operatio
