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Archive for July, 2009


Its been rumoured for ages but its finally happened, Yahoo and Microsoft have tied together and obviously the goal is to combine their forces to take on Google.
“Through this agreement with Yahoo, we will create more innovation in search, better value for advertisers, and real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single [...]



 

If you are struggling to connect to your IMAP mailboxes but other machines on the same network are working fine, then chances are you are hitting the rather restrictive max connections per IP setting that is the default with Courier IMAP and Plesk. As standard it is limited to only 4 connections per IP. For [...]



 

Edmonds Commerce is very pleased to announce the launch of our new link building service.
Any site that wishes to rank well in the search engines for competitive keywords needs to have a link building campaign as an important part of it's SEO strategy. If you are looking to outsource your link building, it is important [...]



 

One of the really cool and powerful features of Magento compared to other more traditional ecommerce platforms is the way that product information is handled. On a traditional system you will likely have one or a small number of tables to store product information. For each element of product information there is a column on [...]



 

Want to setup wildcard subdomains on a Plesk box?
http://rackerhacker.com/2007/08/10/using-wildcard-subdomains-in-plesk/
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If you are using XAMPP on Ubuntu (or probably other) Linux and are also trying to use the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser GUI tools available in the repo's, you have probably hit an error message like this:
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Could not connect to host 'localhost'.

MySQL Error Nr. 2002

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket [...]



 

If you develop using Zend Framework you will know that it is sometimes tricky to see exactly whats going on in terms of SQL queries. After trying a few different ideas including subclassing the database classes or other complex systems, the easiest I have found is this:
1. Edit your app.ini config file and add a [...]



 

It's always tempting when you are new to a framework or system to just roll your own functionality if the built in functionality is not obvious. I was nearly at that stage with Drupal 6 file uploads. Thankfully before I gave in I found this useful blog post which clearly states how Drupal's built [...]



 

I read on Ajaxian today that the BBC have released their own javascript library, Glow, as open source. This is a nice move on the part of the BBC and great news for anyone looking to develop a site with some nice AJAX features but with a priority on accessibility and broad browser support.
The [...]



 

Working on a couple of custom Drupal modules at the moment and I have to say I'm really enjoying working with the Drupal forms API. I really feel like I have a wealth of cool features at my disposal without any particular effort or complication. It's a very logical system that does what it does [...]