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Luc De Brouwer

Ramblings of a mild-mannered software engineer

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Posted on July 23, 2010November 29, 2010

Cleaning up the target=”_blank” in your WordPress post

Like many of you I love WordPress and although the system itself returns some beautiful HTML it neglects to offer a good alternative for the good old target=”_blank” for opening a link in a new window or tab. Continue reading “Cleaning up the target=”_blank” in your WordPress post”

Posted on July 20, 2010November 29, 2010

How to retrieve the Alexa Traffic Rank of any domain

Alexa

After my post on using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain I decided to share my method of retrieving the Alexa Traffic Rank for any domain with you. Continue reading “How to retrieve the Alexa Traffic Rank of any domain”

Posted on July 19, 2010July 8, 2011

A week with CouchDB

CouchDB

I’ve been watching the NoSQL movement closely over the last year and after the 1.0 release of CouchDB last week I decided to take a closer look at this particular distribution. Continue reading “A week with CouchDB”

Posted on July 14, 2010November 29, 2010

Using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain

Whilst working on a semi-automated directory submitter I wanted to automatically retrieve the Google Pagerank for those directories. After some searching and trying out different scripts I found one that was fast, efficient and didn’t drain the server’s resources. Continue reading “Using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain”

Posted on July 11, 2010November 29, 2010

Why I don’t use closing PHP tags

I got a question by a fellow programmer last tuesday about why I don’t use closing PHP tags. First of all, PHP doesn’t require it, so you even save a few bits on your total filesize. But the most important reason is that it prevents additional whitespace that could really mess up your website or application. Continue reading “Why I don’t use closing PHP tags”

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