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Google Gadgets in your Blogger site
If you’re a Blogger blogger, you’re in for a treat. It’s now possible to add Google Gadgets straight into your blogspot site to spice things up.
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: blogger, gadgets
Why your general email contact is important to your business.
Lately, I’ve been kind of swept up by this craze to own one of those ‘netbooks’, those ultra-portable and cheap notebooks. I was keeping my eye on getting an MSI Wind, and hoping to get in touch with various PC providers to find out when the product will be available.
So I went to check [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: email, webmasters, website
PHP Class for Date Time calculations – Part 2
In my previous posting I touched on a PHP class called DateClass (by Steve Powell) that I downloaded from phpclasses.org. The DateClass package actually contained 2 separate classes. One for manipulating dates and the other for date spans.
This post will cover how to use the DateSpanClass to easily calculate the difference between 2 dates, in [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: class, date, PHP
PHP Class for Date Time calculations – Part 1
Performing data/time calculation is basic requirement in any programming project. No serious application can hide from it, so thankfully PHP itself comes with some very useful data/time functions. But, I feel that those PHP date/time functions are probably great for data/time display and formatting, but not so much for calculating for things like the beginning/end [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: date php class
Review: PHP and MySQL: Create – Modify – Reuse
This book caught my eye recently because there was a chapter in it which talks about Search Engines. I’ve been looking at building a spider which can crawl a website and analyse SEO information for me, but wasn’t sure how to go about doing it.
Written by Timothy Boronczyk with help from Martin E. [...]
In: Book Review · Tagged with: books, reviews
CakePHP: Baking in frustration
Sometime back, I posted about my first experience with CakePHP. I installed the framework and went through the tutorial on building a simple blog application, and said “I was quite impressed”.
Now, after 3+ development weeks trying to build a real-world application, I think, maybe I was too hasty to draw that conclusion.
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: Beginners' Guide, cakephp, PHP
A look at the Google Graph class
In my previous post about creating simple graphs using Google Charts API, I mentioned about a PHP class, called Google Graph, which Ryon Sherman wrote that encapsulates this API, making it easier to code in PHP.
I incorporated this class in my CakePHP project, and found that there were a couple of problems with it.
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: examples, google charts
Webmaster tools I can’t live without
Designing and building a website is one thing, but maintaining the site is definately something else. I’ve met many website owners who thought that getting someone in to build up a website and turn it on is all there is to running a website.
What a hard lesson that was for them when it turns [...]
In: Website Building/SEO · Tagged with: tools, webmasters, website
CakePHP: Using scaffolding for rapid application building
That’s right, I’m still on my CakePHP journey. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time now trying to match what I want to build with how to go about doing it in CakePHP. We all know that the blog example is pretty simplistic – a real world app won’t be quite so straightforward. At [...]
In: PHP Tutorials · Tagged with: cakephp, tutorial
To interoperate or not?
Later this week I’ll be attending a talk on interoperability, organised by Microsoft. A friend of mine working at the local Microsoft office is organising the event. He was asking me to help spread the word about the event.
We got talking and from what he tells me about his job as an ‘Evangelist’, I [...]
In: News · Tagged with: Microsoft, PHP