Displaying remote data in your custom Firefox toolbar makes a lot of neat things possible. If your Firefox add-on needs to fetch some data from another URL, it can be done easily with XMLHttpRequest.
What is XMLHttpRequest? The XMLHttpRequest object enables client-server requests in JavaScript. If you’re writing Ajax enabled scripts, fetching remote data in a Firefox extension, or pulling data from another URL in any JavaScript app then XMLHttpRequest is needed.
This is a completely portable PHP script that fetches similar threads from a vBulletin forum. It does not require global.php or any other vBulletin scripts to run. The script uses full score matching, and supports search engine friendly URLs made by vBSEO and other custom formats.
A good friend recently provided me with some dead-simple instructions on how to use GPG in linux so we could share a few sensitive files. I have edited them slightly and with his permission I will share them with you.
I just compared Google referrals to PageRank on 37 different Websites, and here are the results. The numbers are pretty amazing. If PageRank does mean anything, it certainly doesn’t mean good search performance…
Google Toolbar has finally outgrown it’s usefulness. After years of using the Firefox add-on, I permanently removed it from all my computers. The PageRank display was my only reason for using the toolbar. Now PageRank isn’t very useful, the toolbar slows down browsing, and I even saved a meager 4.7MB of memory.
Whatever Google is up to with PageRank lately, it’s quickly losing my interest. PageRank was never meant to be a reliable measure of search engine performance, but it was usually “in the neighborhood”. After the last few PageRank updates, I’ve found myself relying almost completely on other tools due to the extreme gaps I continue to observe.
I was recently using phpMyAdmin to export some records from an URL shortener I’m working on. As usual I verified that “Complete inserts” and “Extended inserts” were enabled for the SQL dump. Why? Using both of these options reduces your SQL filesize and explicitly declares each column name.
Those tycoons over at vBSEO released a free Google Analytics widget for vBulletin users codenamed LiveStats. This free widget displays a JavaScript widget with comprehensive Website statistics from Google Analytics. I don’t plan on publishing all my traffic statistics, but they can be kept private and LiveStats gets definite kudos for using sparklines!
This is a simple way to add social Web icons to vBulletin posts that link to a member’s social networking profiles like Digg, Facebook, etc. You can easily add custom user profile fields from vBulletin Admin CP that let users add their profile URLs in their User CP. For your convenience I also zipped up 19 social Web icons that you can download for your vBulletin forum.
Internet Explorer gives the JavaScript error “Expected indentifier, string or number” when it’s expecting another variable. Firefox and Safari don’t have such a problem, but it’s easy to fix the error in your JS code if you can find where it’s located.
Erika Andersen’s book Growing Great Employees offers valuable lessons on nurturing employees that can be applied to many business relationships. The book is stuffed with actionable strategies on hiring and making the most of your employee relationships. Growing Great Employees is a little dull at times, but offers valuable guidance for anyone who works with real people.
Here are the steps I took to create a new theme for TinyMCE 3.x. It isn’t very hard to do, but the documentation is extremely out of date. You can tweak these all you want, but if you want to make a custom TinyMCE theme there isn’t much available.
If you want to make money online with digital goods, you need something that sells. Here are ten good digital product ideas to help you get started. You still need to do the work, but with this list of ten digital product ideas you’re sure to discover a valuable product that you can start selling online.
Here’s a recently compiled list of 21 25 forums to promote your Web directory. Most of these are directory announcement forums with a few general site announcement and solicitations forums. For the serious/active directory owner you know it’s important to know all the communities and directory marketplaces out there.
Sometimes the PageRank toolbar blacks out and it appears to be one of those times. For the last 24 hours or so it’s been reporting “No PageRank information available” for most top-level domains. Many subpages are still showing PR on the toolbar, and a lot of sites seem unaffected.
Here’s a huge list of free forums to sell your Website scripts. Make sure you register and read the rules of each forum. Perfect for selling your custom PHP apps and turnkey scripts to other Webmasters. It is very up to date since I recently compiled and edited the entire list.
Authoring your own digital book for fun or extra income is easy if you plan ahead. As mentioned in my recent post of ten ways to make money online, ebooks are digital products that almost anybody can create. This is wonderful because it means that somebody with almost zero online experience can make money with their knowledge.
A practical guide written in a technical style, Edward Hasted’s Software That Sells is more about software and less about selling. The book presents a clear overview of running a software company with some useful tips and strategies, but when it comes to marketing tactics it falls short.
It’s been almost a year since I last wrote about ten ways to survive the recession, and now 2009 is upon us with an even more dismal economic outlook for many. Surviving when cash is tight means cutting back and working smarter. Here is a list of 10 new ways to survive the recession, I hope it helps!
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