Wednesday, February 10, 2010
This article gives you a bit of exposure to Python. It assumes that
you have no knowledge of that programming language, so some of what you
read here might seem a bit basic. It focuses on comparing and contrasting
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Understanding Google Base feeds
Before you start to develop applications with Google Base, you need to understand how it works. As with all REST-based services, things get rolling with an HTTP request to a designated resource. This HTTP request contai…
In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert …
Redirect 301 with htaccess
In my opinion htaccess is the best and quickly way to redirect your pages. Only an advice: you need to have a base knowledge of htaccess for use it or you risk to have some serious problems on your site! So, before start usin…
Here are some of our step-by-step notes and drafts from a concept exercise on behalf of a well-known charity. The goal was to create a screen that encourages more site visitors to give, and give larger amounts.
We don’t know if these ideas will ultim…
I like “NoSQL”. But at Flickr, MySQL is our hammer, and we use it for nearly everything. It’s our federated data store, our key-value store, and our document store. We’ve built an event queue, and a job server on top of it, a stats feature, …
If real farming was as comforting as it is in Zynga’s mega-hit Farmville then my family would have probably never left those harsh North Dakota winters. None of the scary bedtime stories my Grandma used to tell about farming are true in FarmVille. Far…
CakePHP
CakePHP is one of the most widely used rapid development framework for PHP. It provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.
What is gMap?
gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website.
With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.
Example
This tiny line of code is being used to e…
Decompilers are a real worry for people who create Flash content. You can put a lot of effort into creating the best game out there, then someone can steal it, replace the logo and put it on their site without asking you. How? Using a Flash Decompiler….