Designing search engine friendly PHP pages can be a real challenge. Most search engines have difficulties getting to, and ranking dynamic PHP pages. This article discusses many of the issues encountered when trying to make PHP scripts rank well.
iGallery is a tool for OSX that publishes pictures in your local iPhoto database up to the PHP Gallery web application.
The program offers the following features:
Using the DOM XML functions to create XML files from SQL data is a tutorial that is intended for developers who wish to extract data from a database and insert it into XML files so that it can be processed in some way.
With Flash MX 2004 being so good at processing XML files, this may be an interesting technique for displaying data within your Flash application.
I’ve noticed a few FREE web-based services that let you move your large files around. The size of the files that can be transfered vary from 50MB to 1GB depending on the service you choose, and all the listed services use a combination of HTTP and Mail to handle the transfer of files.
Chris Pederick (of Web Developer Toolbar fame) has created another excellent Firefox extension.
Google Personalized Search is a nice addition to Googles arsenal of search utilities. Google Personalized will filter your search results based on categories that you choose.
Once you search, you can then apply how much personalization will be applied to your results. Very cool!
The Passivator is a passive verb and adverb flagging bookmarklet for Mozilla-derived browsers.
Writers try to avoid adverbs whenever possible. This bookmarklet will flag adverbs and passive verbs with the aim to help you write better.
Streamingmedia.com: The Windows Media ActiveX control is not just for Internet Explorer anymore. The Mozilla/Netscape team has built ActiveX support for Windows Media directly into their latest browsers.
This article shows how to sniff for browser support for Windows Media, and embed your video for everyone.
If you use a Mac – you will definately want to check out Quicksilver. This free and soon to be open-source software will change the way you use your Mac. In a nutshell, Quicksilver allows you to launch any application, folder or file by simply typing in part of the filename.
It acts as simple personal search engine for every file on your system.
Initially, Quicksilver was launched without any documentation, but now the fine people at Blacktree Inc. have released a comprehensive Quicksilver Manual.
