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”
How to retrieve the Alexa Traffic Rank of any domain
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”
A week with 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”
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”
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”