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Jul
11
aaron

How to Let Google Power OpenSearch on Your Website

How to Let Google Power OpenSearch on Your Website OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results. One of the formats allows your browser to add your site to its list of search engines, which Firefox displays in the top right corner, and Chrome uses in the address bar. Adding a small link and XML document allows your site to be added to a browser. Many CMSs such as MediaWiki already support this natively so you might...
May
13
aaron

Notes on my preferred IDE: Aptana Studio

Notes on my preferred IDE: Aptana Studio I haven’t used Dreamweaver since 2002 and don’t regret it for a minute. On the other hand, I’ve been struggling to find a good IDE for PHP/HTML/Javascript development for a very long time. Komodo on OSX is pretty good, and allows for editing files directly from an SFTP server. That combined with command-line Subversion was my preferred environment for a long time. In the last year or two I’ve...
Feb
9
aaron

Filtering Array Elements in PHP Using an Anonymous Function

Using an anonymous function in PHP’s array_filter as a way to search a 2D array. Continue reading “Filtering Array Elements in PHP Using an Anonymous...
Oct
29
aaron

Automatically linking Twitter @usernames in PHP

Automatically linking Twitter @usernames in PHP I keep seeing people writing scripts that embed their Twitter feed into their websites. The “easy” way is to use Javascript, which means you don’t need to have PHP installed on your server. Doing it this way means your tweets will not be visible to visitors with Javascript disabled. Really, nobody has Javascript disabled in their browsers anymore. The web is pretty much inaccessible...
Sep
22
aaron

Redundant web & database servers on a budget using Virtual Private Servers

Background First let me just say that I have been struggling with this problem for quite some time now. The problem is to provide redundancy for a website so that the website continues to run even if there is a problem with one of the servers it’s running on. In a typical simple server setup, there is a single machine running the web and mysql servers. The machine can be either a dedicated server,...

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