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PubSubHubbub

28 December 2009

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A brief overview of the PubSubHubbub protocol.

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Lifestreaming the easy way

3 December 2008

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I recently discovered a new PHP/MySQL lifestream tool named Sweetcron. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of lifestreams, a lifestream simply displays posts you have made to your social networks, blogs, photo sites, etc. It displays a stream of content that is representative of your life, I suppose. I began playing around with [...]

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15 Minute SEO List

29 November 2008

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Kelvin Chan clued me into a fantastic page from webconfs.com that lists the best and worst practices for search engine optimization. Check it out here: 15 Minute SEO List – Learn how to SEO

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Protecting against SQL injection in PHP

26 November 2008

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MySQL’s DevZone provides chapter 3 of php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security for free download. The chapter explains how to protect your PHP applications from SQL injection. Download it now.

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Get SitePoint’s “The Art & Science of CSS” for free!

23 November 2008

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My absolute favorite web design and development resource publisher is giving away the PDF edition of The Art & Science of CSS, one of their many books. I haven’t read much of the book yet, but I like what I’ve seen so far. To take advantage of this terrific offer, go to Twitaway.com and follow SitePoint [...]

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Yahoo! BrowserPlus now available

21 November 2008

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As a follow-up to a previous post, I am excited to note that Yahoo! has released its BrowserPlus technology for general use! This looks like a promising technology and I look forward to playing around with it. I certainly won’t be using it in any client sites any time soon, but I can see it [...]

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Yahoo! BrowserPlus

24 July 2008

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Yahoo! recently released a “Sneak Peak” of BrowserPlus, “a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.” Perhaps “released” isn’t the right word – Yahoo! is providing the documentation along with a number of demos that utilize the technology, but they are not opening the technology for use [...]

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Microformats

7 October 2007

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I’ve been reading up on Microformats, especially hCard and hCalendar, which are XHTML equivalents of the vCard and iCalendar standards, respectively. Michael McCracken explains the usefulness of Microformats like this: With Microformats, you can send & publish things like events, business cards, and product reviews as meaningful XHTML that a person can read in a [...]

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