My main goal this year is to be in a position to go full time as an affiliate come December.

I've been in the industry probably for around 18 months or so, but if I'm honest, I started to slack off my work towards the end of last year and got a bit lazy.

Anyway, things changed at the beginning of this year and I've started working towards this goal of going full time ... and touch wood, things are heading in the right direction.

To keep me motivated,...

I've been reading up a lot recently on how best to implement XML feeds into your websites, so I thought I'd write up a series of posts that would explain how I go about getting dynamic data being displayed in my content.

The series will be split over a number of blog posts and will cover:

• Overview of the process and the structure of the XML feed
• Setting up your database correctly
• Extracing and downloading the relevant information using PHP
• Displaying the relevant information

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Having just come back from my first conference, I thought I'd post a few thoughts on here as I know there were a few questions posted on the forums about how useful they were.

Obviously, the conference has been overshadowed by various events but I wasn't there for that and so would rather focus on what everyone was really there for.

Given recent events at CAP, I know a lot of people from here were going to boycott the conference. From my point of view, I'm still new to...