Winning traffic with Charlie Sheen and Yahoo BOSS API. It seems very fitting to pick Charlie Sheen as a news source for a quick Yahoo BOSS API tutorial. Below is the link to the full source code and a link to a demo page set up to showcase the Yahoo BOSS API in action. Or View…read more »
If you want to rank highly in Google and stay there, then there are a few simple rules that must be followed. Two of which are fresh content and well structured HTML, these go a long way to improving SEO and therefore increasing Google ranking. One of the best ways to satisfy the fresh content…read more »
When designing a web application, you will need to think how you are going to handle someone manually editing your URL and stripping it of it’s GET parameters. The best way of doing this is to produce a 404 error page using PHP. Take for example this URL “www.example.com/article.php?id=14“, this is fairly obvious to most…read more »
When you’re pulling in images or text via AJAX, it’s nice to notify the user if that’s what you’re doing. This nice feature can be implemented via a simple GIF animation preloader and jQuery. One of the best sites I have come across for GIF animators is this: Ajaxload. Simply select your preferred preloader image…read more »
A quick tip on how to create a twitter status from dynamic text (either by AJAX or PHP) A quick demo is set up here Dynamic jQuery Twitter Status Demo Also if you want to download the complete source code, feel free: Enjoy! jQuery URLEncode Plugin: http://0061276.netsolhost.com/tony/testurl.html Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on…read more »
This quick tutorial will enable you to display live Twitter Trends on your website. I have made a demo page for this tutorial which can be viewed here: Live Twitter Trends On A Website and also for the eager of you, I have gathered up the source code and placed it into a handy download: The…read more »
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to retrieve tweets from the Twitter API using PHP and JSON. As many of you have seen, lots of people like to show their latest tweet on their personal site or blog, there are plenty of ways to do this but I will be showing you…read more »
The reason that PHP User Defined Functions is going to be a quick tutorial is because they are simple to implement and easy to learn. PHP User Defined Functions are pre-written (by you) pieces of frequently used code that can be initiated by calling the function name. In the example below, we have a file…read more »
In this article, I’m trying to establish whether we can safely say whether CSS3 is a viable option for web designers and web developers as part of their everyday projects or is it still incompatible with too many browsers to be worth using. Earlier, I was reading an article posted by Nettuts entitled “Build a…read more »
Just a quick post on how to select the latest record inserted into a mysql database, use the code below in your web application or straight from the command line: SELECT * FROM Table ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1 For reference: Tiztag MySQL Tutorials W3Schools SQL Tutorials Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend…read more »
