Integrating Twitter, Vimeo and Flickr with your site

Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:50 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

There are so many popular sites providing services these days that you're bound to want to integrate with them to display feeds of your own or others content on them.

technology, feeds, social, media, integrate, twitter, vimeo, flickr

Caching PHP pages

Seeded on Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:37 AM EDT (New Earth Online)

As your site traffic grows it takes longer and longer to generate a dynamic page from sending multiple queries to a database. One possible solution to limit queries is to cache the result of each query that is needed, or to have a complete full page cache for your site.

technology, php, cache, pear, pecl, apc, caching, development, web, programming

37,500 Glastonbury 2008 tickets on eBay

Seeded on Tue Apr 8, 2008 7:17 AM EDT (eBay UK)

It's a fake auction, but it's amusing that people feel strongly enough that Jay-Z isn't right for Glastonbury to the point where official tickets sales haven't yet sold out after 2 days of being on sale. Quite a few amusing responses to it too.

entertainment, glastonbury, humour, humor, 2008, ticket, auction, ebay

Using mod_gzip in Apache2 for Windows

Seeded on Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:14 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

Apache2 for Windows can make the job of sending content as a Gzipped file a little tricky; but here is how to do it.

technology, apache2, mod-gzip, compression, gzip, windows, modules, apache, server

Discovering APIs and Services

Seeded on Wed Jul 4, 2007 6:02 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

APIs and services have many different purposes, such as making it possible for people to easily contribute to sites from software (in the case of an XML-RPC service), or to easily implement code themselves.

technology, development, standards, soap, wsdl, rest, services, api, discovery, communication

Coding PHP Mailboxes (Part 1)

Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:33 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

This article describes how to use PHP to connect to mailservers, and display emails on a webpage. In the case of Microsoft Exchange based systems other details such as Calendars, and Tasks can also be retrieved and displayed.

technology, email, php, imap, pop3, authentication, development, exchange, programming, server

Tagging content using Scriptaculous

Seeded on Sat Feb 3, 2007 3:31 AM EST (User Submission)

In-place-editing is a way of being able to click on an element and have it change into a form on the fly with the ability to save your changes there and then.

technology, ajax, development, effects, elements, javascript, scriptaculous, tagging, folksonomy, in-place

Dynamic Sortable Lists in Scriptaculous

Seeded on Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:18 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Sometimes it can really be useful to let a user sort a list of items, and this can easily be done using Scriptaculous, but when it comes to being able to sort dynamically updated lists it can get a little more complicated.

technology, design, development, tutorial, scriptaculous, sortable, lists, dynamic, javascript, ajax

Software Quality and Testing

Seeded on Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:52 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Testing is one of the fundamentals of Quality Assurance, it outlines where the defects are in a measurable form and helps to make an application "bug free". Remember though that software testing never reveals the absence of bugs, only the presence of them.

technology, development, programming, tutorials, software, testing, fagan, inspection, defect, tracking

Creating a Postmaster in Microsoft Exchange Server

Seeded on Sat Jan 6, 2007 9:07 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

This article shows you step by step how to create a "Postmaster" in Active Directory / Microsoft Exchange Server that is capable of accessing the mailboxes (and hence the calendars, free/busy information) of all/selected Active Directory users.

technology, admin, server, system, windows, microsoft, exchange, active, directory

Detecting Users Online using PHP

Seeded on Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:50 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

After recently having seen a way of showing the number of people currently visiting your site by recording IP address I thought I'd demonstrate my own way of doing it that also includes the ability to show which users online, and number of users/guests online.

technology, development, mysql, php, programming, seo, tracking, tutorial

C++ Lesson 3 - Classes and Conditions

Seeded on Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:13 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

No programming language is complete without being able to make choices in conditional statements - this guide covers the use of these in C++ and also the use of classes.

technology, c, development, programming, tutorial

Promoting your site

Seeded on Fri Dec 8, 2006 5:36 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

SEO is a curse to some who see it as a method of spamming or deceiving search engines to favour your site. This should not be the case, search engine optimisation should consist of making sure you have good, well marked content that has links inbound and outbound.

technology, development, search-engines, seo, yahoo, google, googlebot, alexa, msn

C++ Lesson 2 - Using Inputs and Types

Seeded on Sat Dec 2, 2006 12:36 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

In this second lesson you will learn how to capture input, and what the different data types available are. Those who have used other languages before should be reasonable familiar with the datatypes that C++ offers.

technology, c, development, programming, tutorial

C++ Lesson 1 - Methods and Output

Seeded on Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:21 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

C++ is like many other OOP programming languages with it's support of classes, absract classes, and many other "cool" types. Anyone who already knows similar languages like Java may find some of the earlier lessons too basic.

technology, c, tutorial, methods, output

Better Glows in Photoshop

Seeded on Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:20 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Bored of the normal glow that is provided by the blending options in Photoshop, or feel more creative? Then don't let it restrict you, this technique demonstrates an alternate way of creating a glow around objects and text.

technology, design, effects, gaussian, glow, photoshop, tutorials

Using Windows Integrated Authentication

Seeded on Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:22 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Windows Integrated authentication, the Single Sign-On (SSO) method available to Windows-based servers allows for supported applications (including web applications) to utilise the credentials from Windows login. This guide describes how to use it.

technology, admin, development, networking, tutorial, windows, iis, kerberos, authentication, security

Regular Expressions and Validation

Seeded on Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:56 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Regular Expressions are a popular way of performing complex string matching on variables. To anyone who is relatively new to them though, it can be daunting. This guide shows how to use them, with examples for using them in validation techniques.

technology, development, javascript, php, programming, patterns, tutorials, regex, regexp-regular-expression, modifiers

Water Effects in Photoshop

Seeded on Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:40 PM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

Water takes up about 70% of the Earth's surface - that's a lot of water, but just because there's a lot of it doesn't mean it should take a lot of time to draw it in Photoshop. This covers basic water effects in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

technology, photoshop, water, reflection, ripples, effects, tutorial, design, stargate, star

JavaScript Best Practices

Seeded on Sat Nov 4, 2006 11:54 AM EST (newearthonline.co.uk)

JavaScript for some is the bane of web development technologies - but it should not be feared or hated. As long as proper practices are followed it will not have any affect on the accessibility or function of the website other than to enrich the user's experience.

technology, accessibility, development, javascript, programming, semantics, web

Accessibility and the Law

Seeded on Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:34 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

Accessibility is now a common goal for any public facing websites, and is now unlawful for companies to make their site inaccessible to people with disabilities. A number of companies had actions taken against them in response to this.

technology, accessibility, design, development, semantics, standards, xhtml, css, websites, law

Phasers and Lightsabers in Photoshop

Seeded on Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:45 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

Sometimes it's fun to edit a photo so that it's got a lightsaber in it to make a spoof of Star Wars, or maybe some laser fire as a phaser if it's Star Trek; doing this in Photoshop is quick and easy.

technology, photoshop, design, lightsaber, phaser, star, trek, wars, laser, glow

404 Searches with htaccess

Seeded on Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:43 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

Today it is simply not enough to redirect a user to a generic "Page cannot be found" 404 page. In the spirit in trying to give your users the best possible experience they should be redirected to a page that tries to help them find what they were after.

technology, apache, htaccess, server, admin, 404, error, document, search, web

"Web 2.0" style logos in Photoshop

Seeded on Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:29 AM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

The term Web 2.0 is a dreadful term, but it is useful being able to collate a series of ideals and standards under one banner. With this new ideal comes a common set of design patterns and colours.

technology, photoshop, cs2, elements, design, web, logo, layers, web-2-0, style

Using htaccess for scheduled downtime

Seeded on Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:24 PM EDT (newearthonline.co.uk)

Sometimes you may find that your site needs to be innaccessible for a short period of time whilst updates are performed, such as updates to user logins.

technology, apache, htaccess, downtime, rewriterule, rewritecond, remote-addr, request-uri

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