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There are a lot of plugins you can use to show random posts, but why use plugins when it’s so simple to do it with a bit of coding. Here is how to do it.
So you wrote a blog post about something that seemed fairly innocuous, but for whatever reason, it caught the attention of one of the major sites and now your server load is at 110 and climbing, the ssh command line session is taking thirty seconds to respond to anything at all, and given that your post is on the front page of slashdot at primetime, this doesn’t look like it’s a temporary blip. W
The Standard PHP Library is an object-oriented library, by default always included in the latest versions of php. Leveraging Spl in the right way is crucial to avoid compromising the design of an application and taking advantage of the most portable php library at the same time.
The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of my professional involvement with the IT industry; in two decades, I have learned that programming, more than any other profession below “Keith Richards,” seems to attract people who have a certain ego. I don’t mean to say that we’re all megalomaniacs in search for a country to run, but there certainly is no lack of opinionated types in our industry
I got asked to review a fairly large piece of PHP code recently and, whoooo boy, was I in for a treat (treat as in clawing my eyes out with a rusty spoon while listening to Nickelback, as interpreted by Dr Zoidberg. In reverse). No cup of heavenly blessed Kopi Luwak coffee, poured into a cup of golden banana leaves by naked triplets could counter the massive damage done to my corneas or, for that
UTF8 allows your site to represent characters other than those in the basic english alphabet. More often than not, your CodeIgniter Application will contain methods where users can enter their name. This is where you’ll most commonly see unusual characters cropping up. To make sure your site can properly represent all of these to the browser, you need to use UTF8 encoding, a way of encoding any u
Just today, I decided to run an impromptu experiment to test if visitors who come from search engines are really more likely to click on ads. It’s considered ”common knowledge” by many bloggers who advise everyone to only show ads to search engine visitors (as a quick Google search will illustrate), but my own AdSense stats m
A tutorial on how to move wordpress from one hosting provider to another. Goes through tips in what to change to make it an easy process.
Over the last few days I have been trying to use the Zend_Rest_Controller along with the Zend_Rest_Route to make a RESTful application for an API that I am working on. It is very easy to get things setup with these components and I will cover that now.
I’ve been working hard on Goodsie.com lately trying to bring it to launch. It’s been great being in on a new PHP project from (near) the beginning, as it frees up a number of things.
One of those, is the fact that I can be using PHP 5.3 and all the new features that come with PHP 5.3. While I’ve used my fair share of the short-cut ternary already (?:), the bigger win for me, are the Lambda funct
I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests, a book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java environment. A review will come soon, since the process described in this work is really language-agnostic and interesting also for php developers.
On most websites, content is stored in a database and served to visitors upon request. Databases are very fast, but there's lots of things that you can do to enhance its speed and make sure you won't waste any server resources. In this article, I have compiled 10 very useful tips to optimize and speed up your website database.
Collection of 101 free premium wordpress themes ready for download.
Packt Publishing is on a roll. They have been releasing a few Drupal books recently on a broad variety of topics. We have seen books on Social Networking with Drupal, JavaScript and jQuery, multimedia, ...
Last week they have released a new book focusing on performance and maintenance, called Drupal 6 Performance Tips. Although the title focusses on the performance topic, a lot of tips are also
