HowTos

Google and a number of other large providers including Microsoft and Media Temple allow developers to access a variety of JavaScript Libraries which can aid in website deployment and availability. Using Google’s CDN has both benefits and drawbacks and before you make use of this offering you should understand that there is a possibility your […]

The jQuery package is a comprehensive library of JavaScript functions that are commonly used by web developers. The library has been tested for cross browser compatibility and it streamlines your ability to access HTML Elements within your documents. In addition to the main library package you can extend jQuery with plugins that you or others […]

WordPress just released a Security Update for its .org owner operated software. The release is primarily a security update for media uploads that puts in checks during the upload process and verifies the users credentials. There are also some functionality updates in the Taxonomy code. Fixes to both searches and use of permalinks or url […]

When attempting to install a Plugin, Theme or use the WordPress Autoupdate feature the process may fail or request that you provide your FTP credentials in order to complete the install. This is a common error and one most likely to happen for users that have not configured their webserver’s root directory correctly. Basic Overview […]

There are times when you need to work with a large database on a remote host and you do not have control over Apache, PHP and MySQL to alter timeouts and file sizes. This is often the case on shared hosting plans and it effects most websites that get large or that offer a lot […]

If you write a lot of posts then your visitors need an easy way to find them. Although we all sort our posts into Categories and add appropriate Tags when we have them it can still be difficult paging through your home or archived pages. On some sites it is reasonable to alter your loop […]

One of the things you are likely to run up against if you are writing scripts that access outside API’s is a requirement to throttle or slow the execution of your script to conform to user agreements. This is because sites that offer API access don’t want people to flood their resources with bots that […]

This Howto will cover the basics of connecting to a MySql Database with PHP. Before you can connect to a database with PHP you must setup your database giving it a new name, user with password and you must apply rights to the new user to allow them to edit the database. If you are […]

Whether you are grabbing an XML feed off of the Interwebs someplace or from a local database or file accessing the data in the nodes can be a drag. In this example we will be loading the raw xml into SimpleXML for processing then we will find the node that has the data we want […]

Many people are now choosing Tablet PCs over full sized laptops because they are smaller and make you look cool but when you are out on the road away from home or the office the limits of tablet operating systems may make them seem more like a toy then something you can really be productive […]