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Weekly article batch. Edition 1

lacisoft — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:26:56 +0000

I read many articles and most times i don’t bookmark them even if they are fairly good articles and can be useful in some situations. I thought i should save them somewhere, but they are not so important to be added to bookmarks.

So starting with this year i will publish a post with these articles every week on thursday. This way i can find them when i need them and also maybe some of you can find something interesting to read among them.

The order is arbitrary and some of the articles may be older then one week. The fact is that i read them this week so they get mentioned here this week.

Interesting articles this week:

15 useful jQuery plugins and tutorials – published by designer-daily.com, contains a good selection of jQuery plugins and tutorials
Exception handling in PHP – published by devshed.com, we all come across this: exception handling, a nice overview on the topic
MySQL : Using IF in a WHERE clause – published by electrictoolbox.com, although not a good solution – an IF is possible in a WHERE clause and i post this here only for reference – i not recommend using such solutions
Dive into HTML 5 – published by diveintohtml5.org, HTML 5 is here and this is a fairly good intro in it
13 Useful Code Snippets for WordPress development, published by webdesignledger.com, WordPress in more and more a part of our life and this article can be handy if we want to customize some of the things in WordPress
Speed matters , published by Dries Buytaert on buytaert.net , increasing latency will drive your visitors away as one Google research paper points it out. So think twice before adding a feature that hurts performance

3 useful TYPO3 links

lacisoft — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:46:02 +0000

I’ve come across two great articles and some novelties about the upcoming 4.3 version of TYPO3, here they come:

45 minutes TypoScript – one of the most comprehensive tutorial about TypoScript i’ve ever seen since i work with TYPO3. It has a few nice and useful code examples too.
Using existing hooks in your own extension – as its name says this great tutorial will show you how to hook into existing functionality and alter it
Beta 3 of TYPO3 4.3 is out, go check it out – it has some neat new features like built in frontend editing

TemplaVoila Video Tutorials

lacisoft — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:05:48 +0000

I’ve found today two short video tutorials on Youtube about getting started with the Templavoila extension in Typo3. They are not so comprehensive and the info bubbles are in dutch (i think) but they can help those of you who are just getting started with TemplaVoila.

Part I

Part II

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5 articles you must read about WordPress

lacisoft — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:35:10 +0000

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/

This tutorial explains how to turn your WordPress installation into a powerful CMS, using only basic PHP and HTML skills.

2) Top 50 WordPress Tutorials - http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/top-50-wordpress-tutorials/

This is a collection of tutorials that cover everything from Basics to some more advanced tricks, including Themes, Plugins, Backend

3) 1o Useful RSS Tricks and Hacks for WordPress - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/02/10-useful-rss-hacks-for-wordpress/

RSS is a must for every blog. This tutorial explains how to control your RSS feed down to the last byte of information

4) Best WordPress plugin for related posts - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-related-posts/

Matt Cutts writes about probably the best related posts plugin for WordPress. The plugin is called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) and it is very easy to install and configure.

5) 13 Great WordPress Speed Tips & Tricks for Max Performance - http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/13-great-wordpress-speed-tips-tricks-for-max-performance.html

Getting your WordPress up and running is easy. But what are you doing when your site is experiencing high traffic ?

I hope these articles will help you to get the most out of your WordPress installation.