Archive - Nov 19, 2009

SitePoint Podcast #37: Social Media: The Bad and the Ugly

Episode 37 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available!

NoSQL Ecosystem

NoSQL, an alternative for relational databases with massive workloads.

New xserve arrived ...

Last year we purchased our first xserve. Yesterday our second one arrived at our office. Today "he's" standing on my desk. Tomorrow, when we moved him to our data center, he will help encoding videos ...

How to Run IE6, IE7 and IE8 on Windows 7 HOME

My recent article, Run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the Same Machine Using Windows 7 XP Mode, provided instructions for installing Virtual PC and XP Mode on a Windows 7 PC. Unfortunately, it only worked on the Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Windows 7.

Gone Retro: 10 Gorgeous Websites With A Touch Of Yesteryear

Retro styles are popular in just about every aspect of design. I love looking at them to see how the designer puts together a look and feel that conveys a long gone era. Take a look at fashion, advertising, print and even cars. Designers revisit the past to plunder the good, the bad and the sometimes downright ugly elements to use in new design. Web designers are no different of course and there are many fabulous web sites out there using retro styles.

7 Tips to Improve Your Web Site Copy

If you are a designer or developer, you probably use your own web site as a showcase, displaying what you can do for clients. Through your beautiful design, great functionality and creative navigation, your web site can be your best portfolio.

MySQL master / slave replication

There are tons of tutorials about setting up master / slave replication for MySQL. Here are my own quick notes:

long time -- no update

I'm currently preparing to switch my blog software -- again. After using wordpress and serendipity for quite some time, i came to the conclusion, that i will only be satisfied with my own blog software. Therefore i'm currently developing something based on the php5 framework i developed for work. I also decided to switch language ... now i can practice my english and increase the audience of people, who won't be interested of what i am writing .

AJAX Login Module

Package:
AJAX Login Module
Summary:
Authenticate users without reloading a login page
Groups:
AJAX, Databases,

Twitter Updater

Package:
Twitter Updater
Summary:
Update and retrieve the statuses of a Twitter user
Groups:
PHP 5, Social Networking, Web services
Author:
Muhammed Mamedov
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