WordPress dropping support for PHP 4
It is now official, version 3.1 of WordPress, the blog engine most used open source Network, will be the last that will provide compatibility with version 4 of PHP developers and especially those that perform third-party extensions, are felt, the same goes for those who use hosting service whose operators still have not decided to update the production environment to PHP 5, despite the approach of the PHP 6 release.
WordPress 3.1 should be available by year, while version 3.2 will be available to the community not before 2011, it requires at least PHP 5.2, as the reason for this choice? For now, release 5.2 is most widely used and also is the minimum requirement for installation of two other successful open source platforms such as Joomla and Drupal. Read the rest of this entry »
Internet Explorer on Linux
As its name suggests, IEs4Linux is an application that allows you to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the most unusual that this browser can be installed, a Linux operating system, to make this particular port will not require any special installation procedures, simply use the Wine emulator that in the case of IEs4Linux does not require specific settings.
Audience IEs4Linux? In particular, for Web designers who use Linux (or another operating system other than Windows) but wish to display their paintings on the Internet Explorer, but the application can be particularly useful for those who need to navigate to Linux Web sites created by technologies compatible only with Internet Explorer (up to version 6). Read the rest of this entry »
Five reasons for not using Ajax
Ajax is a great and difficult technology services provided by Web 2.0 would be just as easy to use without the support of a technical development such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
Ajax has only advantages? As with all things of this world it is too peremptory statement, then some (of course debatable) disadvantages to this technology:
- Too much code: Introduce Web application pages in many cases the Internet is “drowning” of code, too much code will take more performances by the browser that will work more slowly;
- Uncertainty: Using Ajax is used often using ready-made solutions created by others, think of the countless plugins for the various frameworks, who assures that these are safe?
Calculate the size of a MySQL database
Here present a simple query that could be particularly useful for those who have hosting with limited space for storing data, it is a question of fact by which you can obtain the size of a MySQL database. The information will be available directly from the database managers are therefore extremely reliable.
But we go straight to the code of our query, as it is easy to note, is based on creating an alias to associate the result of calculation:
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">SELECT COUNT(table_name) AS numero_tabelle,</span> SELECT COUNT (table_name) AS numero_tabelle,</span>
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">SUM(data_length+index_length) AS dimensione_db</span> SUM (+ data_length index_length) AS dimensione_db</span>
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES</span> FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES</span>
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">WHERE table_schema = 'database'</span> WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'database'</span> Read the rest of this entry »
Google, metaweb and semantics
Google has announced the purchase of metaweb. Despite being a short notice and could say that even timid, represents a major shift towards the SEO and to some extent the future of internet.
Metaweb is a company that is dedicated to maintaining an open database of things in the world and their relationship. With the purchase of Metaweb, google has access to Freebase, one of the largest databases of semantic web, and although its API could be used by anyone, with the acquisition by Google, could take on new dimensions Freebase and create an application to be used throughout the world, but these are just guesses.
Moreover this GridWorks, which is the application of semantic information processing, and along with Freebase can make a very powerful application tool or as a semantic web. Read the rest of this entry »
Control the cost of your Adwords campaigns targeting your ads
A program adwords ad unchecked can cost you dearly. To avoid paying for clicks that do not relate, it is essential to target your ads. The key parameters are: the delivery period, geographic targeting, the length of the ad and of course the key word.
Duration Ad
This parameter is taken into account if you want to chat about an event or promotion on a specific period. If your ads are about your business generally, it is not necessary to limit the dissemination of the announcement in time.
Delivery Period
A link with visits to your site, this parameter determines the broadcast time slots. If you find that your objectives are translated from 8:00 to 24:00, you can limit the display of your ad in this slot.
Geo Targeting
If your catchment area is local, there is no need to advertise in all countries. You can target a departmental or regional clientele. Read the rest of this entry »
JW Box: a lightbox for JW Player
If used on your site’s media player JW FLV Player and want open movies in windows style lightbox there are various possibilities, the easiest solution is, of course, use the plugin JW Box designed by the same developers JW Player to interact with it.
JW Box is a simple plugin jQuery clone of the famous Lightbox that can be used both for video and for other content such as images or HTML.
Its operation is simple : just insert the header of the page references .js jQuery and plugins, as well as the style sheet .css
<script type="Text / javascript " src=" jquery.js "></script>
<script type="Text / javascript " src=" jquery.jwbox.js "></script>
<link rel=" stylesheet " type="Text / css " href=" jwbox.css " />
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Global Variables in MySQL
Rarely are used to refer to variables when it comes to a declarative language like SQL, but these can be really useful in some cases, such as simple operations for the numbering of the records.
In a well-designed database, usually makes extensive use of auto-increment unique identifiers for the records but the records themselves often face the cancellation, which makes the IDs are not sequential, in this case may be useful global variables. Imagine having to execute a statement like this:
* SELECT id, name, surname FROM agenda; Read the rest of this entry »
Using Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps is a tool to tell Google your site urls to explore. It has no influence on your rankings, but it gives guidance to Google on all of your files and especially to speed up the indexing of new pages or pages inaccessible.
As its name suggests, Sitemaps will describe the mapping of your site. This is actually a file format (XML sitemap) which lists all the urls of your site and information such as date of last update, the rate of change …
Description of the sitemap file:
< ? xml version = " 1.0" encoding = "UTF -8" ?>
< urlset xmlns = "http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
< url >
< lastmod > 2005-01-01 < / lastmod>
< changefreq> monthly < / changefreq>
< priority > 0.8 < / priority >
< / url >
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Remove a URL from the Google index
A product that is no longer available, a page that no longer exists on your site, a page of your site that you do not want to appear on search engines …. many reasons that you might want to delete a url to the index of search engines. Here are various ways to proceed …
url removal tool from Google
Google has developed a removal tool you will find space in your Webmaster Tools > Site Configuration> Access the crawler, remove the tab url. Here you choose if you want to delete a single url, a directory or a cached copy of a search result. This method removes easily in an emergency a URL. Useful if you do not hand to administer your site. The removal is effective in five days and for 90 days. For the removal is final, we must combine this method with one of the following methods.
Meta tag
In the header of your page tells the robot not to index the page.
This method can remove the index page of search engines without removing the site page. Read the rest of this entry »
