Tue, Jun 24, 2008 @ 3:57 pm36 comments
Recently I wanted to create a page that would list the backlinks to certain sites that I had chosen. Yahoo always seems to have the most comprehensive list of backlinks and luckily they also make available a series of APIs that enables you to access their data. Using the Site Explorer Inbound Links API, and an example of a script towards the bottom of that page, I was able to put together a script that closely mirrors the sort of results you would get if you entered a site’s URL into Yahoo’s Site Explorer.
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Mon, Jun 9, 2008 @ 11:52 am0 comments
A while ago I wrote about some of the extensions I use with Firefox which make the job of web development easier. I’ve since added some new ones to Firefox that I use on a fairly regular basis, so thought I should update the list.
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Posted in Browsers | Web Development
Thu, Jun 5, 2008 @ 9:57 am22 comments
For the article I wrote recently on web design galleries, I compiled a table of the galleries in a MySQL database. To be able to display the table and the associated charts and other statistics that went with it, I needed to be able to connect to this external database from within WordPress.
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Posted in CMS | Wordpress
Mon, Jun 2, 2008 @ 11:06 am33 comments
Recently I had to add basic shopping cart functionality to a site that had been built with ExpressionEngine (my CMS of choice). “No problem,” I thought; I can use the Simple Commerce Module (SCM), which as the names suggests, is ideally suited to simple ecommerce requirements, and which I had used before on other EE sites.
More on PayPal options and Expression Engine’s Simple Commerce Module
Posted in CMS | Ecommerce | ExpressionEngine
