Tixrus (my Twitter moniker) gets retweeted on Twitter from time to time. According to Retweetrank, tixrus is the 84th percentile for retweets.
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 3 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff  autotweet, flash widget, retweet, retweetrank, RSS feed, sidebar, tixrus, tweet this, twitter, yourminis Warning: Hard Core Dorkage ahead! I ran into a snag implementing a general callback strategy. The issue is that you can’t use a class name as a variable and then call one of its methods. Here is the backdrop, the boo-boo, and the workaround. . . . → Read More: Class names as variables in PHP 12 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security callbacks, class name, encapsulation, is_callable, memcached, PHP, private, public, static, syntax error, variable, work around Warning: Hard Core Dorkage! Here’s a little simple memcached test you can have to test memcached on your system. I am working on an app that, while the server load is not huge, the datasets that you are presenting to a visitor are larger than normal for a web app, and so I ultimately plan . . . → Read More: Memcached Test 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff Apache, cache, extension, memcache, memcached, performance, PHP5 I just finished installing the latest version of the Tweet This WordPress Plugin. It renders my Tweet This Hack obsolete. As now you can configure the text that comes out. This is as it should be. I’m so honored! Richard Thripp, the author of Tweet This, even dropped by and made a comment on that . . . → Read More: New Tweet This Hack but Still no Monkeys 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing adjix, configuration, filthy rich, hack, monetize, money, monkeys, PHP class, PHP5, retirement, Richard Thripp, riches, shortener, solid waste port, support, tweet this, URL length, URL shrinkers, word press plugin 7 is better than Vista? We…eeell, that’s kinda like death being eaten alive by fire ants is “better” than death by being shot by a water pistol until your flesh rots. A while back I was lamenting that table comments in MySQL get overlooked, and did a post on it, both how to create them, how to update them, and how to view them. The fact that my table comment post remains quite popular indicates that mySQL hasn’t SEO’d their pages on it thoroughly enough, . . . → Read More: Column Comments in MySQL 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Geek Stuff, SQL access control, column comments, comments, create, information_schema, meta table, MySQL, permissions, security risk, show CREATE TABLE, SQL injection, update Why should you care about a vulnerability in SSL? What is SSL anyway? Well…..if you never bank online or buy anything online, you’ve no cause for concern. But if you do, please at least read the takeaway action item, OK? The whole ecommerce sector relies on the secure sockets layer (SSL) for encryption of transmissions . . . → Read More: SSL Vulnerability alert! 12 comments - (Comments are closed) Hacking and Security browser, CA, certificate, computing power, digital signature, Encryption, exploit, hacking, hash, MD5, SSL, trust, vulnerability Utterli seems like a lot like Twitter at first glance. The difference is that you can post voice messages, video, or stills directly to it from your mobile. . . . → Read More: Utterli: Twitter with media 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff API, audio twitter, CCNA, cell phone, embed, marathoner, media, moniker, still, tixrus, Twitter API, utterli, video, voice menu, voice message, web UI, widget One of the reasons why I always cringed from web front end in the past is that presentation is so “dirty.” We have all felt the flames. HTML was never really designed as a presentation language confusion of XHTML validations and the different DOCTYPES CSS is supposed to be for design browser wars and their . . . → Read More: Pssssst! Wanna learn JQuery? 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff ajax, browser wars, chile poster, clientside, CSS, image map, javascript, Jeffrey Way, JQuery, presentation, quick, Theme Forest, Tutorial, video, web 2.0, web front end, XHTML |
Try my beta Word Press Plugin
Well, it had to happen. It is amazing that I’ve been using WordPress so long without getting into its guts. While hacking on the Tweet this plugin ever so gently, I started to get the feel for how WP plugins work. So I wrote a couple myself. The first one is serious old school, as . . . → Read More: Try my beta Word Press Plugin