Archive for April, 2009
How to make a permanent (301) redirect with PHP
Often we need to redirect permanently a page to a new location and this can be accomplished in many ways. I will discuss today the PHP method because this is the one i most often run into. So you can make a header redirect with php in the following manner: <?php header(“Location: /example.php”); ?> But [...]
Yahoo closes Geocities this year
I learned that Yahoo plans to shut down Geocities later this year. This is a sad news. Geocities was the place were i hosted my first website back in the year 2000. At that time Geocities was one of the few free choices to host a website and it was a pioneer on the modern [...]
How some people make free software to cost more then commercial software
Free software should be free! That’s why people choose it instead of commercial software. If you don’t have the means, the passion and the time to develop free software then you better don’t do it or make it commercial software. Because when you call a product free, then people expect it to be really free [...]
You can run PHP on Google App Engine
It seems that some people figured out how to run PHP on Google App Engine. You may be wondering how this is possible as Google doesn’t support PHP on App Engine. Well its possible because recently Google announced Java as the newest programming language supported by the App Engine. And this made possible to run Quercus [...]
HTML and Javascript code to crash IE6
I’m a declared adversary of IE6. I even wrote about it a while ago. Now i saw that Cats who code wrote an interesting post with the title 6 HTML and Javascript codes to crash IE6. My favorite is this one : <STYLE>@;/* These code snippets should be everywhere and people who still use IE6 should [...]
How to make a drag and drop sorted list with jQuery Sortable
A while ago i wanted to build a functionality where some blocks of html had to be sortable (with drag and drop). After searching a little i found jQuery’s Sortable plugin. With the help of this nice little plugin i could build the functionality i required in no time. I will show you below how [...]
How to build a clickmap using PHP and jQuery
I’ve found a great article on the topic of tracking clicks and creating a clickmap using PHP and jQuery. The article explains how to Record the X and Y coordinates of the mouse cursor when it is clicked on a web page. Save those coordinates to a database When called, display a “clickmap” on top [...]
How a Google Data center looks like
I always wondered about how a Google Data center looks like, mainly from the inside I discovered today a very interesting video released by Google. This video explains in details how a data center is organized and how it works. This data center houses 45000 servers organized in 45 containers.
5 articles you must read about WordPress
Working and publishing with WordPress is easy. But sometimes users can waste lots of times figuring out some more advanced tricks or features. Believe me i’ve been there myself. So i compiled a list of articles, tutorials and howtos that will certainly help you alot when dealing with WordPress. 1) WordPress as CMS tutorial - http://robertbasic.com/blog/wordpress-as-cms-tutorial/ [...]
