Posts made in December, 2005

  • Ten CSS tricks you may not know

    CSS

    Here’s an article by Trenton Moss with 10 excellent tips on CSS. The article covers topics such as CSS shorthand rule, CSS for printing, Image replacement techniques, CSS positioning and much more. Link: Ten CSS tricks you may not know

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  • Creating Search Engine Friendly URLs in Mambo 4.5

    PHP

    Mambo 4.5 has in-built functions to create search engine friendly URL’s. Most search engines don’t index sites with query strings in the URL. To overcome this, most CMS systems have in-build systems that allow you to clean the URL to make it search engine friendly. For example take the following URLs as an example: http://project.com/index.php [...]

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  • Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites

    Software

    Here’s a site which lists out all the “suspect” anti-spyware software available on the net. Some of these anti-spyware end up installing their own spyware on your PC. So before you go ahead and install a new anti-spyware solution on your PC, check them up with this list. ” Some of the products listed on [...]

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  • Optimizing and Tuning Your MySQL Database

    Databases

    Here’s a two good articles on optimizing and tuning MySQL databases, tables and queries. “Even the most well-designed database, functioning on its own or as part of an application, needs to be maintained. This hour is part of a 3-hour set of administrative lessons that will give you pointers for optimizing and tuning your database [...]

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  • Charts and Graphs with PHP

    PHP

    Here’s a list of Chart & Graph modules which work with PHP. I personally like PHP/SWF Charts and FusionCharts, which are Flash based charts which you can interface to from PHP. Here’s a list of resources which I checked out. PHP/SWF Charts Fusion Charts Advanced Graph and Chart Collection for PHP RChart PHP Edition ChartDirector [...]

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  • PHP 5 Power Programming

    PHP

    Here’s a book from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series called PHP5 Power Programming. This book deals with : Expert PHP 5 programming techniques, direct from PHP 5 co-creator and key developers Definitive coverage of the PHP object model, design patterns, XML/SOAP integration, and more Solid introduction and expert insights into performance tuning, PEAR, extensions, and [...]

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  • Online Office Suites

    Ajax

    Here’s some of the latest web-based Office Suites based off Ajax. Some of these do eliminate the requirement of having a bulky office suite installed on your PC. Think Free Online: http://online.thinkfree.com/ “Thinkfree develops cross-platform applications and online solutions. It’s flagship offering, ThinkFree Office 3, is a Microsoft Office-compatible suite, which allows users to seamlessly [...]

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  • Apache Performance and Security Guide

    Security

    Here’s a very good article on how to optimize performance and improve security on Apache Servers. “This guide is written mostly for web administrators/developers, who want to optimize the speed and increase the security of Apache web server. Without a doubt, Apache is still one of the best web servers on the Internet. Being open [...]

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  • phpBB exploit in the wild – PHP Security Blog

    PHP

    A new threat for PHPBB users. Here’s a post from the PHP Security Blog. “At Halloween 2005 I had disclosed a number of bugs in phpBB, including a remote code execution exploit through the signature_bbcode_uid variable. You will not find this vulnerability in the phpBB security tracker because it is phpBB project’s practise to blame [...]

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  • Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher

    Ajax

    Here’s a cool way to swap Stylesheets on the fly using UDASSS(Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher). Works great even if Javascript is disabled on the browser. The Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher combines the power of Server Side processing and DOM scripting to swap style sheets on the fly with the power of [...]

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