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Title High Performance Web Sites
Author Steve Sounders
ISBN-10 0-596-52930-9 (ISBN-13 978-0-596-52930-7
Pages 146 (including index)

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Saunders is an attempt at teaching people how to best go about optimizing their web sites. No I do not mean optimizing for search engines, I mean optimizing for the best user experience (and believe me it is a relief to have a book aimed at giving the user a better experience rather than the search engines). Read the rest of this entry »

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Those within the domain industry will be aware of the increasing fraud and domain thefts taking place in recent times.

Fraud and theft have of course always been a problem within the industry but it seems in recent times the matter has multiplied. Read the rest of this entry »

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On my travels I come across many people who are blissfully unaware of register globals and if they are aware of it, they misunderstand what it does.

Some people seem to believe that using the $_POST, $_GET… global arrays that they have protected themselves from the effects of register globals.

They couldn’t be further from the truth. Read the rest of this entry »

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Finally a couple of days ago Wikia was released. We have been hearing publicity for this search engine for some time.

Wikia is of course only in beta mode at the moment but I already have a couple of problems with it. Read the rest of this entry »

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I have just started making some wordpress plugins. My first attempt was a quiz script which seems to work fairly well however is not released as of yet.

My second plugin which I have just released in a beta state (and have applied for inclusion on the Wordpress site) is a cool plugin that will show you how many people are on your blog. It displays a handy link on the top right of your admin pages as well as having an added page within the Users section of the admin panel which shows who is online as well as what they are looking at. If you think this is an interesting plugin take a look at the Who’s Online Plugin page for more information. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

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For those of you that have tried to visit us in the last few days we unfortunately experienced a problem with the server.

At 00:30 or so Friday morning we found the server behaving erratically and finally becoming unreachable. Even a reboot would not fix it.

It turned out we had a rootkit on the server. We have now subsequently reformatted the server and are securing it to try to ensure it never happens again.

Here’s hoping for a smooth ride for a while.

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I received the usual Zend newsletter today. Zend have announced a very interesting looking webinar in January.

The webinar is entitled “Seven Steps To Better PHP Code” and is split up into 2 separate webinars.

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I subscribe to many blogs. Most are full of mediocre information. However there is 1 blog that tends to stand out and is by someone who I admire as a PHP coder.

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On my daily rounds of forums views I regularly come across threads that show how much of a problem getting a good coder can be. For that reason I have compiled the following guidelines. Read the rest of this entry »

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