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Making Money With Flash Games

Jamie — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:26:04 +0000

There are a few different ways to make money with Flash games. In today’s article I will discuss the simplest way. It requires no development and no Flash skills. It does require a bit of investment (not a lot though) and some search engine optimization (SEO) skills. The first thing you need to do is think [...]

Do you miss me?

Jamie — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:43:39 +0000

I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging much recently. I was blessed recently with twins! Whenever I’m not taking care of them, I’m currently working on developing Flash Games. I’m currently compiling statistics about my success with them. In the meantime, if you know a bit about Flash and want to earn some extra revenue, join MochiMedia [...]

GameSerf – Earn Money Playing Games

Jamie — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:29:21 +0000

Hey readers, I just wanted to take time on this Victoria Day long weekend to let you know about my latest website called Game Serf. If you’re like me and play video games online all day, why not get paid to play them! Check it out today. Other useful articlesNo Related Post

Bored? Try N-Puzzles

Jamie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:19:08 +0000

So it’s Friday, it’s been a long week. I don’t know about you, but I need a beer and need to relax. Check out this little Flash game that I created a little while back: http://www.endyourif.com/npuzzle/npuzzle.html It’s called N-Puzzles, also known as, 8-Puzzles, 15-Puzzles. You simply need to place the puzzle pieces in order from left-to-right. Enjoy! Other useful [...]

iPhone Apps Randomly Crashing?

Jamie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:53:06 +0000

Today at work I was advancing one of our iPhone applications. It’s a pretty basic application, has a menu which displays some data from the web via XML; all of that fun stuff. On occasion, I would try to push a view controller and the application would randomly crash, e.g.: This would work fine the first few times, [...]

Optimizing CakePHP Websites

Jamie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:37:43 +0000

CakePHP offers a lot of functionality to us as developers. The ability to develop websites rapidly provides a trade-off in how quickly the website will load. As we expand our skills, we will learn the techniques that will slow down/speed up performance. Objectives Apply techniques to speed up CakePHP’s load time Optimize our queries Cache query results Much like that [...]

Adding SEO functionality

Jamie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:24:19 +0000

Two of the biggest things that will improve your search engine rankings are keyword rich website titles and keyword rich links to your content. Today’s lessons will cover both of these topics. Objectives Improve our search engine rankings Set a title tag Map a [...]

Developer High Fives (in honor of Barney Stinson)

Jamie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:15:28 +0000

Last night was the premiere of my current favorite TV show “How I Met Your Mother”. If you are not familiar with the show, former childhood star Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser), plays a character named Barney Stinson. Barney is known for several catch-phrases as well as special high fives. Borrowing some of the more popular [...]

margin: 0 auto; not centering in Internet Explorer?

Jamie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:23:39 +0000

The other day, I had chopped up a design. Sliced and diced if you will. I proceeded to creating the HTML once all of the images were sliced up. Things were going great. As per usual I began designing in Mozilla to use Firebug to tweak the CSS and HTML. Once I finished the design, I [...]

unbindModel and $this->paginate()

Jamie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:06:28 +0000

Ugggh what a disaster today was! On a client’s site, we have an older version of CakePHP, pre containable functionality. Because of this, we have to use unbindModel and bindModel to accomplish the same functionality. Over the past while, it has not been such a big deal. However, for some other unknown reason, a search feature [...]

Someone at work tick you off?

Jamie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:50:25 +0000

I don’t know about you, but there are many times during a work week where someone ticks me off. It could be something small or something major. I’ve always wondered what I could do about this, so I finally did something. I created a Facebook application called Head Slap! It let’s you type in your friend’s name [...]

Hardware Not Working Properly?

Jamie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:31:37 +0000

Today I am going to share with you a little story that has saved me so much time and energy that always drove me crazy. I bet many of you will be able to understand where I am coming from on this one… Let me guess, you just bought a brand new monitor or a brand [...]

Twitter, are you taking advantage yet?

Jamie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:18:18 +0000

I’m sure you are well aware of Twitter by now. If you are not, perhaps you should crawl out of the hole in the crowd and begin checking out the latest fad on the Internet! People are absolutely obsessed with Twitter right now. There are a million sites out there on how to make money [...]

How to write for people and rank high with your keywords

Jamie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:16:32 +0000

Using the right keywords are important, but don’t let this drive your content. It’s important to remember what your first goal should be and not your second. Your first goal is write and provide useful content to people who do find your content. Your second goal is for search engines to rank it well. So, how [...]

Follow me on Twitter

Jamie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:39:24 +0000

I’m sure it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve set myself up a Twitter account and you can follow my latest blogs on there. Check it out here: http://twitter.com/endyourif Other useful articlesJune 29, 2009 -- Twitter, are you taking advantage yet? (0)May 28, 2009 -- Fastest Top Five FREE Ways to Gain New Traffic (0)

The Shocking Truth to Website Success…and it’s not top Google Rankings!

Jamie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:33:09 +0000

Do I believe in SEO? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in link popularity? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in targeted keywords? Absolutely I do. Do I think it’s the most important thing? No, I don’t. I am going to reveal to you the true method to a successful website on the Internet! Being well [...]

Facebook Development – Quick and Easy Dialogs

Jamie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:19:48 +0000

At my work, whenever we have a link to delete records, we always have a simple Javascript confirm dialog pop-up. The confirm dialog just does the standard, “Are you sure you wish to delete this record?” with an OK and Cancel button. If the user clicks cancel, the record is not deleted, if they click [...]

Sharing your way to success

Jamie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:02:03 +0000

In today’s article I am going to discuss something that *hopefully* was taught to you at a very young age. For me, this dates back to my earliest memories of being a child. In your life, how many times have you heard someone say, “You must share that with others.”? I’m pretty sure it’s more [...]

Fastest Top Five FREE Ways to Gain New Traffic

Jamie — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:59:13 +0000

Today’s article is going to discuss my top 5 ways to gain new traffic, did I mention that they are all FREE! Because each are free, they all take a few minutes of work on a regular basis. After a short while, you should hopefully gain a following and not require doing them anymore. The top [...]

Photobucket, Photos, and You

Jamie — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:44:22 +0000

It seems like photo sharing and social network applications are the in thing right now. Let’s take advantage of this. Today I will provide a simple class that will allow you to post photos to a user’s Photobucket account in minutes. Step 1: Visit http://photobucket.com/developer/register to register for an API key Follow the steps to create [...]

Facebook, Photos, and You!

Jamie — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:11:50 +0000

The Facebook Application API is quite extensive and allows you to get and set many different aspects of a user’s Facebook information. Today, we are going to discuss using the Facebook API to create an album, if it doesn’t already exist, and add a photo to that album. I created a simple class that will help us [...]

Creating your first iGoogle Gadget

Jamie — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:38:42 +0000

Recently at work, we’ve started diving into Google Gadgets. They are quite fun and really extremely easy to build. In this article, I’m going to get you started creating your very own Google Gadget. Sit back and reserve a few minutes of your time and you will be well on your way in no time! The first thing we [...]

Bebo Development Scares Me

Jamie — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:48:29 +0000

Today at work, we’ve begun looking into creating some Bebo applications. I know it’s a bit behind in the times, but we’ve been busy with Facebook, iPhone, and Google Gadgets. It’s now time to sink our teeth into Bebo. I spent about 30 minutes setting up Bebo and reviewing a simple three step process to setup [...]

setTimeout() vs setInterval() in Javascript

Jamie — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:56:32 +0000

It feels like it has been a lifetime since my last blog! I must apologize for the long delay, but between finding the time and finding a good topic to blog about, it’s being difficult. In today’s article, it’s been a while since I’ve needed to use either the setTimeout or setInterval functions and it seems many [...]

Caching Queries in CakePHP

Jamie — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:32:02 +0000

If you haven’t noticed already, at times CakePHP can be a little slow loading! The reason for this is quite simple. Rapid Application Development. To allow for RAD, sometimes we must give up something, in this scenario it’s a bit of speed when loading. Don’t worry, CakePHP offers some excellent utilities to help with this. The one [...]

Understanding group bys

Jamie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:49:12 +0000

Yesterday, at work, it occurred to me, not for the first time, that something that comes so easily to me, does not to others. I had tasked someone with, what seemed a simple task, to retrieve a list of users who have reached minimum payout. The payouts were stored in a separate table from the users and [...]

ActivityIndicator with a UIWebView

Jamie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:39:03 +0000

Because you can never be sure how long it will take to retrieve content from a web page and have it displayed on the iPod/iPhone, it’s quite nice to provide the user with an indication that the content is being retrieved. The following article provides a nice and easy way to start and stop and animation [...]

Custom pagination query in CakePHP

Jamie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:23:13 +0000

My pet peeve list seems to grow on a regular basis. One of them is poorly optimized code. Not only is the code I’m going to discuss poorly optimized, it’s from the documentation of CakePHP! If you search for creating custom pagination in CakePHP, you will find quite a few results, potentially this one. The one [...]

3 Flaws to CakePHP’s AuthComponent

Jamie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:37:18 +0000

Good Friday to all. Over the past several weeks I have been working a lot with the AuthComponent in CakePHP and have learned a couple of lessons that I wanted to share with you all. The title calls them “flaws”, but I suppose this isn’t completely accurate, it depends how you look at it. To me [...]

The flaws of using isset()

Jamie — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:35:44 +0000

I am starting to really dislike the PHP function isset(). Today, I was working on a registration system in CakePHP and my password validation was not working. If I left the password field blank and clicked submit, it would come back with other errors, but then the password would come back populated with a long string – [...]

Reset UINavigationController

Jamie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:20:42 +0000

The following is a neat little trick to reset your navigation controller when it is integrated with UITabBarController. The following code will pop the navigation controller up when the user clicks on your tab bar item. I’ll begin by showing a bit of code that needs to take place. It’s going to be a quick overview [...]

Scroll a UIWebView

Jamie — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:19:10 +0000

I struggled with this one for quite a while. I kept searching and searching, all I could find was forums and no one seemed to have an answer! Well, if you’re here, don’t worry, I have the answer you have been looking. Let me show you how to make a UIWebView scrollable for your iPhone application. The example [...]

Transparent UIWebView

Jamie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:11:22 +0000

The other day I was working on my iPhone application. In the application I have a view. This view creates a UIWebView. I then proceed to load content from a webpage into the web view. This works great. I was then tasked with adding a bit of style to the view. I started by creating all of the [...]

A friendly framework reminder

Jamie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:30:15 +0000

Quite often at work, I find myself reminding my team members to be sure to ALWAYS utilize the framework to it’s fullest. Just because you are unsure how to do something or have never done it before in the framework, does NOT mean that it cannot be done! I use to have this thinking as well. [...]

UINavigationController Background Color

Jamie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:22:17 +0000

Boy today was a frustrating day. Over the past month or so, when I have some free time at work I’ve been learning Objective C to create iPhone applications. Today, I struggled and struggled to do the most simplistic thing ever and I wanted to share it with everyone so if you get stuck with the [...]

Web Developers are Warriors

Jamie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:29:29 +0000

Sick days? What’s a sick day? I know at my place of work, we don’t take them. Today is a great example of that. I couldn’t even get out of bed yesterday, Sunday, but today, with work knocking on the door, I got up nice and early, popped some medication to get me through the [...]

Unbind Model Validation in CakePHP

Jamie — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:30:14 +0000

Have you found yourself wanting to remove validation on a specific field in a specific form? Yes? Excellent, you found the right place. If you haven’t had the need for this, a great example of where you would want to accomplish this would be in a users edit form. Normally in CakePHP we would encrypt the [...]

Jquery vs Prototype/Scriptaculous

Jamie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:50:20 +0000

About two years ago I started learning AJAX and drag and drop. The first project I applied it to was an existing project that was using Prototype and Scriptaculous. So, I didn’t really have a choice as to what library I was going to use. Two years later, I do not know Jquery all that well, [...]

How attentive are you?

Jamie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:11:27 +0000

During my first job interview as a web developer, I was asked, what I thought at the time, a weird question. “Jamie, on a scale of one to ten, what would you score yourself in regards to attention to detail?” I said what every employer wanted to hear “eight or nine, no one is perfect”. It [...]

5 Tips to Become a Better Web Developer

Jamie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:05:28 +0000

So, you are looking to become a better web developer? Well, the fact that you are willing to read this article is a great start! It’s actual one of my five tips. I’ll begin by listing, what I believe, are the most important pieces in becoming a better web developer. Test Adapt Think/Plan Trial and Error Ask for help Test I have [...]

Login system with CakePHP in under 10 minutes

Jamie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:57:03 +0000

In today’s article, I am going to discuss how simple it is to setup a login system with CakePHP. As the title says, it should be less than 10 minutes. In theory if you copy and paste the code below, it should be fully functional in less than 5. Ready, set, let’s bake. Step 1, create a [...]

Optimize your CSS and JS with CakePHP in minutes

Jamie — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:28:50 +0000

One of my first articles discussed YSlow. An excellent Mozilla add-on to help you understand why your web page may be loading slowly. In that article, I describe the importance of gzip, minify, and grouping your Javascript and CSS code into one file each. Just recently I was surfing CakePHP’s bakery and found a nice add-on to [...]

Importance of using the CakePHP Helpers

Jamie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:41:49 +0000

Uggghh, I hate to even be writing about this! I have been spending the past two days cleaning up a project that has been running for over one year. It was our first ever CakePHP project at our company and we were too lazy to be consistent about using $html->link() when creating our links. Just recently [...]

Re-map key/value array data in PHP

Jamie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:17:08 +0000

I was recently tasked with a situation where I needed to populate about 10 different “Settings” for every user in the current database. This example is specifically for CakePHP, however, it could easily be used elsewhere. My goal was the following, I had an array that was key value paired as follows: array( [0] => array( ’User’ => array( ’id’ [...]

How to deal with stress at work

Jamie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:51:59 +0000

I’m assuming I’m not alone with this one, but on a daily basis I seem to bring home a lot of stress from work. At one point I use to bring home so much stress that I was unable to sleep at night. From time-to-time it still happens, but with these techniques below I have [...]

When to use element() and when to requestAction()

Jamie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:54:06 +0000

Several times a week it seems, someone at my office is asking, “Jamie, should I use $this->element() or $this->requestAction()?” Every time they ask, I ask them back, “What do you need to do?” There are a few simple ways to determine if using an element is better or a request action is better. To begin, let’s describe the [...]

CakePHP Containable Statement Pitfalls

Jamie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:26:16 +0000

On some of our more recent projects, we have been using the Containable behavior that CakePHP provides. It works quite nicely, a lot easier than the previous format of having to bind and unbind models on the fly. The pitfalls began to appear when some of our clients were reporting that some pages are extremely slow. [...]

Keeping your CakePHP Controllers Clean

Jamie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:03:08 +0000

As my office gains more and more experience with CakePHP, we are beginning to learn to build more organized web sites. Looking back at our first few projects, I’m astonished to see how messy our controllers are! I know the controllers are the “brain” of MVC because it pieces our data to our views, but that [...]

Underscores and Internet Explorer Fun

Jamie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:01:32 +0000

I think my favorite thing about being a web developer is wasting hours and hours of my time, my co-workers time, pretty much every ones time because Internet Explorer is retarded. Earlier this week, we were developing a site and we created a new sub domain off of our main domain. Because we already had an [...]

Drag and drop category management with CakePHP

Jamie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:40:11 +0000

Today’s article is going to walk you through creating a slick drag and drop with AJAX category management system. CakePHP offers a really nice built-in tree management. In fact, at a bare minimum you simply need to create a table with 2 extra columns, tell your model to act like a “tree” and rather than doing [...]

Drag and drop with animations in jquery

Jamie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:46:46 +0000

Every year at Halloween, my company offers prizes to the best dressed employees. For the past two years I have one as well as my co-worker that partakes in our crazy costumes. You may be wondering what this has to do with drag and drop, don’t worry I’m getting there. This years prize happened to be [...]

How to add comments with AJAX in CakePHP

Jamie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:20:17 +0000

In today’s article we are going to create a very basic blog that allows people to create a post and posts comments on that post via AJAX. We are going to keep it extremely basic and just focus on that actual AJAX functionality. Ready? Let’s begin. We are going to start by creating two database tables: [...]

How to advance our CMS in CakePHP

Jamie — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:06:52 +0000

At the end of part one, we had a working CMS. Well, at least it was saving files and they could be displayed to the public. In today’s article, we are going to further advance our CMS. We will cover the following items: fckEditor Revisions Adding fckEditor should be the easiest process to the whole CMS. Download the [...]

How to create a CMS with CakePHP

Jamie — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:17:04 +0000

I really enjoying writing code and I find that snippets just don’t always cut it for me. So in today’s article, I am going to describe the process of creating a CMS (Content Management System) with CakePHP. This will be a two part article, in part one we will focus on getting the basics working. The [...]

AJAX Select box in CakePHP

Jamie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:00:03 +0000

When I created my first personal CakePHP web site, this was something that had me quite frustrated. I struggled and struggled to figure out and understand how to do a simple “if I change this select box, how can I populate another one”. I had previously done this a million times in other languages with a [...]

How to setup a route in CakePHP

Jamie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:04:23 +0000

If you are like me and are creating personal web sites, one of the best ways to gain traffic to your site is through SEO. I won’t go into detail here as I want to focus on how to setup a route in CakePHP, but having SEO friendly URLs will go a long way in [...]

A practical CASE Statement Example

Jamie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:20:40 +0000

What is a SQL case statement? Well, it’s much like a switch statement in a development language. It allows you to test several different cases for a field and determine what you would like to do for each one. If you have ever visited Mysql’s documentation, you may have been as lost as I was. You [...]

How to create a socket server in PHP

Jamie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:14:15 +0000

Ever want to build a chat application or perhaps even a game? If so, a socket server will help you get started. Once you understand the underlying functionality of creating the server, enhancing it is just as easy. The way a socket server works is, it will be running continously and waiting for a [...]

StringExtractComponent for CakePHP

Jamie — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:02:03 +0000

Hi folks, I have just finished creating my first CakePHP component and I wanted to share it with the community. After I finish writing this article, I will be submitting it to CakePHP for inclusion. The component is called StringExtractComponent. As you may guess, it extracts content from a piece of content. I have created this [...]

Top 5 SEO Tips To Achieve Top 10 Rankings In Google

Jamie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:47:25 +0000

I thought I would follow-up my “How to get indexed by Google in ONE hour” article with my top 5 SEO (search engine optimization) tips. The following 5 items are by no means in order of importance, it’s best to try the ones that you think you can do first. When you are implementing the following [...]

The Importance of Database Indexing

Jamie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:20:51 +0000

If you are not familiar with database indexes or even if you are, but not sure when to use them, this article will be perfect for you. In this article, I will show you an example of a simple query without an index and then that same query again with the index. I am certain that [...]

Dynamic COUNT() Versus Static COUNT()

Jamie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:36:24 +0000

I’ll continue today with another good database programming article. If you missed yesterdays, you may view it here. Today’s article will discuss when to use a static COUNT() versus a dynamic COUNT(). On a regular basis we are tasked with creating a message center or a photo album and we need to display a count of [...]

Why You Should Avoid ORDER BY RAND() OR NEWID()

Jamie — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:51:02 +0000

Quite often we get a complaint from a client that their homepage is too slow. The first thing we do is load the homepage up and see for ourselves. Yep, it looks slow, so the next step is too see what is being done. Quite often you’ll see some random data being displayed on the [...]

Why You Should Always Backup

Jamie — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:42:18 +0000

Man, what a week it has been. As you may have noticed it’s been a few days too many since my last post. The reason for that is a hectic week at work has prevented me from having time. Now that the week is over and it was hectic because of my own stupidity, I mine [...]

Fixing slow drag and drop with scriptaculous

Jamie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:56:13 +0000

Recently on a project I was working on, I was tasked with fixing drag and drop that was terribly slow. The drag and drop was implemented with scriptaculous on a calendar system. When you clicked an event to drag it it took about 5 seconds before the page would actually let you drag it! This was [...]

Why Frameworks Are Better

Jamie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:46:56 +0000

Are you a person who dislikes frameworks? Or are you a person who loves frameworks? Or are you even a person who isn’t quite sure what a framework is? The following article will discuss the pros and cons of frameworks and the common downfalls that people fall into. I’m not sure if it’s only people I [...]

A Simple SEO Trick To Boost Your Rankings

Jamie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:16:29 +0000

The following article is going to be short and sweet, but applying this technique will help you move up those all important rankings. The technique involves updating your <title> tag. With a few simple changes, your ranking for your targetted keywords will begin to immediately climb (well not immediately, but next time Google crawls your web [...]

CSS Tips – Margins in Internet Explorer

Jamie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:05:13 +0000

This is the first article to follow-up on my why “Why Is Internet Explorer Better?“. Today’s article is going to discuss how Internet Explorer deals with margins. To explain this weird and frustrating issue, I am going to build a photo gallery and break it down into several steps. The first step is to create our HTML [...]

Why Is Internet Explorer Better?

Jamie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:27:59 +0000

I’m guessing I probably got your attention with this one? I’m also guessing that you cannot scroll down fast enough to the comments box and start typing a bunch of nasty messages to me. WAIT! Before you do that, let me explain why. It’s quite simple, when I make this statement, I am referring to web development. I am [...]

Facebook Development and $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

Jamie — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:06:26 +0000

If you are new to creating Facebook applications or even if you’re not. When you go to use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] you might be in for a surprise when this _SERVER variable does not exist! Just recently I encountered this problem, when I thought about it for a few seconds it made sense why the variable wasn’t there. [...]

Drag and Drop with AJAX Example

Jamie — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:19:37 +0000

At my work it’s quite clear to me that a lot of people have difficulty with both AJAX and drag and drop functionality. In this article, I thought I would provide a realistic and simplistic example of how to accomplish both AJAX and drag and drop together. By the end of this article you will be [...]

SQL Tips – Why LEFT JOINS are bad

Jamie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:05:16 +0000

When you do SQL queries do you find yourself always, or almost always, using left joins? If you’ve answered yes to this question, I would suggest to continue to read and understand some downfalls that you might be getting yourself into. Let’s start by looking at a standard query that has a left join: SELECT * FROM [...]

How to get indexed by Google in ONE hour

Jamie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:52:09 +0000

If you’re not familiar with how some people accomplish getting their web sites submitted to Google quickly, you are going to absolutely love this article. I’ve bet you’ve heard from many people that it can take days, weeks, even months to get indexed by Google. If you have heard that, you’re now thinking, “OK Jamie, you must [...]

YSlow – Helping slow web pages load faster

Jamie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:44:07 +0000

This article is a continuation to my article about Firebug. YSlow is an add-on to Firebug that helps developers determine why a site is loading slowly. After you install YSlow, if you open up Firebug in Mozilla a new tab will now appear called “YSlow”. The next steps would be to load a web site that [...]

Firebug – A developer’s best friend

Jamie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:44:23 +0000

I think a good place to start is to describe one of my favorite tools. It’s called Firebug, it’s an add-on for Mozilla browsers. At work, if one of my co-workers comes to me in the J-Block and asks a Javascript or CSS question, before I even consider helping them I ask if they reviewed the [...]