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Running your blog with SEO in mind
Awhile back, I wrote about what it takes to start your own blog. Unless your blog is only meant for your private circle of readers, in most cases, you’ll want people to read what you have penned down, and even make some money from it.
The most effective way to do that is to get it [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: google, guide, SEO
Codeigniter: Helpers, Plugins and Libraries
Having used Codeigniter for a few months now, this framework is really turning out to be a joy. My last post, I talked about how to modify native CI Libraries.
With so many published PHP classes and functions, it would be a shame if we couldn’t use them in CI. Fortunately CI (like all good frameworks) [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: codeigniter, helpers, libraries, plugins
CodeIgniter: Extending the native ‘Model’ and make it your own.
Today I took advantage of CodeIgniter’s ability to extend the native libraries, and I was well satisfied that it just works.
Let me elaborate, I’m in the process of creating models for my CI project, and realized that certain functions within the models were getting repetitive. Using CI’s ability to create my own custom libraries, [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: codeigniter, models, PHP
Oracle 11g and PHP
When we talk about PHP, MySQL is often the other word that goes hand-in-hand with it. But Oracle? 2 weeks ago, I had an opportunity to attend the Singapore’s PHP User Group monthly gathering, and the topic was on Oracle 11g and PHP.
Oracle is not often associated with PHP in my world, so the [...]
In: News · Tagged with: database, oracle 11g, PHP
CodeIgniter: Organizing views simply
Having been brought up developing PHP using templating systems like Smarty, I’m very used to segmenting my page elements into reusable block, and swapping out blocks of HTML codes, nesting blocks of code within other blocks and so on.
Trying my hands at using CodeIgniter, one of the first obstacles I had was how to organize [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: codeigniter, PHP, views
Google Chrome: One month later
It’s been a month since Google pushed out their Google Chrome browser. In that short time, the initial buzz about the shiny new browser has slowly being taken over by reports of crashes and security flaws.
NetApplications also just released a report that the market share for Google Chrome since the launch has dipped but [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: browser, chrome, google
Cacti: Using Cacti to monitor web page loading – Part 3
Welcome to Part 3 on using Cacti for monitoring of web page loading time. In the previous 2 parts, I walked you through how to install a custom script which will query for the loading time of a web page (Part 1), and how to configure Cacti to start collecting data (Part 2).
In this, [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cacti, monitoring, rrdtool
Cacti: Using Cacti to monitor web page loading – Part 2
In Part 1, I discussed about how to use Cacti, a great open-source monitoring tool, for the purpose of monitoring your webpages. More specifically, the time it takes for a webserver to receive the request to the point where the last byte is sent out. I walked through the custom scripts needed by Cacti and [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cacti, monitoring, rrdtool
Cacti: Using Cacti to monitor web page loading – Part 1
In my current project, I’ve been looking into website performance and measuring how long it takes for webpages to be composed. Although there are plenty of tools both commercial and non-commercial which is available to do just that, they either cost too much or is a one-time data capture tool (which would be quite laborious [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cacti, monitoring, rrdtool
Cacti: Ubuntu 8.04 Cacti Plugin – Invalid PHP_SELF Path problem
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time with Cacti on my Ubunto 8 install. Cacti as we all know is a (great) PHP wrapper application around the rrdtool command. Cacti and rrdtool are typically used by network/systems administrators for graphing network conditions, churning out great looking graphs for various SNMP data.
I’ve been investigating whether [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cacti, PHP, plugin