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By Ed Reckers on June 14, 2010
I recently was on the search for a few examples of active MySQL configuration files (my.cnf). It’s always nice to see someone else’s production version of a configuration file and during this search I realized that not a lot of examples of MySQL config files were to be found on the internet. The first place [...]
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By Ed Reckers on June 10, 2010
This post is a running tab of what we at Kliky.Com consider essential WordPress Plugins. These WordPress Plugins are essential in that they should be included in every new WordPress installation we spin up. Below is our ever-updated list of plugins which should be included in every launch: All in One SEO Pack This plugin [...]
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By Ed Reckers on May 7, 2010
The Six Revisions site always seems to come up with intelligent posts which inspire. If you haven’t already, you should follow their tweets. The just put up a post called, “Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design” and I’d have to say it’s a great collection. I read a lot of these “lists” each [...]
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By Ed Reckers on May 3, 2010
This article titled, “Joomla And WordPress: A Matter Of Mental Models” from Smashing Magazine contends that your choice of CMS depends on how you expect Web applications to allow for theming and core manipulation. Open-source content management systems (CMS) are a large family of Web applications, but if we’re looking for stability, performance and average [...]
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By Ed Reckers on April 30, 2010
Here’s a good post up on Smashing outlining a few ways to extend WordPress’ custom fields to do much more that you’d initially think, “Extend WordPress with Custom Fields“. WordPress’ popularity has grown exponentially as of late. This rise in popularity is due in part to WordPress’ custom fields. Custom fields allow you to add [...]
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By Ed Reckers on April 25, 2010
A very good overview of best practices for speeding up your web site from the Yahoo! Developer Network. Very good resource: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html Incoming search terms:yahoo best practice web performanceyahoo performance best practices
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By Ed Reckers on April 15, 2010
There’s an interesting company out there building upon its widget technology to allow publishers to create ad supported mobile versions of their Web sites. From their own site: ClickTurn enables people to create and sell high-impact ad units that marry brand content with content generated by both the publisher and their community. We provide an [...]
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By Ed Reckers on June 1, 2009
The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox collected for us by Noupe. It’s worth taking a look at: http://www.noupe.com/drupal/the-ultimate-drupal-toolbox.html Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every aspect of it through the use of themes, plugins, and a little custom coding. Below [...]
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By Ed Reckers on August 1, 2007
A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities used in Web development. For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and often promote [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 10, 2007
I’m getting started on a new project which is built around a table using MySQL SET data types in a number of columns. There’s some parts of this, which will most likely present a number of challenges. The table was contains records for individual entities, of which a few fields contain data with multiple values. [...]
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