Making A Wordpress 2.5 Sidebar Widget Plugin
April 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Wordpress 2.5 And Widgets
A Wordpress Widget is a dynamic element that can be placed in the sidebars (or anywhere that is declared a sidebar) in your Wordpress theme. For example on this blog there is a right sidebar with these widgets: Search It, Recent Entries, Categories, Related Sites, Recent Visitors (by Feedjit), Recent Readers (by [...]
Pick Up A Great Website For Cheap
September 30th, 2007 · 10 Comments
We’ve all seen those websites that show up in the SERPs that are just there because the domain has been around for years and has managed to pick up a few links along the way. They’re listed in dmoz, PR 4 or 5, but the content is really old. What if there was a way to…
Floating Point Comparisons In PHP and Javascript
September 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments
A simple function to ease your floating point comparison headaches. Implemented in PHP and Javascript. Compare floating point numbers safely like this: moneycomp($income,’>',$debt) return ‘Happy’; Escape the plague of the .000000001!
Scraping Links With PHP
August 11th, 2007 · 75 Comments
In this tutorial I will show you how to build a PHP script that will scrape links from a web page. I also discuss the legal issues involved with scraping website content.
Facebook PHP Tutorial
July 31st, 2007 · 61 Comments
I will cover the basics of using the Facebook PHP Client Library and how to get your application started, including:
- Installing The Facebook Developer Application
- Downloading The Facebook PHP Client Library
- Creating Your Application
- Hello Facebook! Example
- FBML - Facebook Markup Language
- Using the Facebook API
The Spy Is Dead - Spyjax Offline
June 15th, 2007 · 6 Comments
I will no longer be hosting Spyjax.
It’s been fun and very interesting, but it’s time to call it quits. Spyjax is just a side project but it’s eating up server power so I’ve decided to turn it off. I kicked around the idea of turning into a real service / business but I’m just not [...]
Spyjax - Your browser history is not private!
May 23rd, 2007 · 65 Comments
If you’re like most web users, you assume that your browser history is private. For example if you visit an online store, you assume they can’t see if you’ve been looking at their competitor. Just a few weeks ago I assumed this was the case. Guess what? Your browser history is not private!
WordPress Customization
May 9th, 2007 · 24 Comments
A presentation on customizing WordPress. It gives an introduction to WordPress, and covers the basics of customizing themes.