More bsuite Hacking

April 5, 2006 – 12:41 pm

Update: bugfix release b2v6 available.
Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving him big trouble. Chow Kah Soon is in the lucky, but rare, position of having over 20,000 unique daily visitors to his site, [...]

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Involvement, Inclusion, Collaboration

March 27, 2006 – 12:12 pm

Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan’s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed. Part of the problem is answering how do you get people to contribute content — post their events — to a site that has little traffic, and how do you build traffic without content? The suggestion is that you have editorial staff scouring for content to build the database until reader contributions can catch up, and that’s where Peter comes in, suggesting that content and traffic aren’t where the value and excitement are: it’s the opportunity to involve fans in the event planning and marketing process.

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Using XML In PHP5

November 22, 2005 – 1:42 pm

Everybody likes documentation. The Zend folks posted this overview and SimpleXML introduction The O’Reilly folks at ONLamp offered this guide to using SimpleXML. Of course, there’s always the SimpleXML docs at PHP.net.
Two problems: I haven’t encountered CDATA in my XML yet, but I do hope to develop a better solution than offered here when I [...]

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Helpful Pages In The Wordpress Codex

September 25, 2005 – 8:18 pm

The following pages from the WordPress Codex were surprisingly helpful recently:

Creating a Static Front Page « WordPress Codex
Creating Tables with Plugins « WordPress Codex
Alphabetizing Posts « WordPress Codex

tags: documentation, wordpress, wordpress codex, wordpress development, wordpress documentation

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Doing Relevance Ranked Full-Text Searches In MySQL

September 6, 2005 – 7:56 am

I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. They appeared in MySQL 3.23.23 (most people are using 4.x, and 5 is in development), but it’s been news to most of the people I know.
Here’s the deal, the MATCH() function can search a full-text index for a string [...]

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PHP Developer Resources

August 16, 2005 – 6:39 am

Somebody asked for some links to get started with PHP. Of course I lead them to the PHP.net official site, where the documentation is some of the best I’ve seen for any product.
I also suggested PHPDeveloper.org and PHPFreaks.com, though the truth is I usually Google any questions I have that the official docs don’t answer. [...]

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