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Custom page intergration with WordPress
June 17th 2011
Ever wanted to intergrate standalone pages or admin areas into WordPress but never knew how? In this tutorial I will show you a quick and easy way how to intergrate to secure areas, one for your clients and one for administration. On top of that, I will show you how to simply intergrate an 'under construction' page.
PHP Syntax Code Display - Wordpress
March 9th 2011
What seems to be the problem from what I have had to deal with whilst making this site, is that all Wordpress plugins that I have come accross have one main flaw which becomes very anoying.
AI Code: Looking Into Linguistics
When I have some free time on my hands I will be looking into Linguistics and will try to make an artificial online robot. After seeing some really poor attempts into creating such an application, I thought I'd look into how it all works and see if I can come up with an algorithm for analysing sentences.
Coming soon...
PHP SEO Code - Google Algorithm Theory
March 1st 2011
Before I start writing this, I need to explain my thoughts on SEO. I am not a conformist. I do not read articles and take it in as most would. I do not believe everything I read and certainly in the area of SEO, there cannot be set rules to follow, and if there is, which many blog authors will write about, then I will test them to the max to see if there is any truth in them.
Wordpress function for every project #1
February 26th 2011
Wordpress seems to be popping up more and more these days. Each project that I am to undertake I always find myself thinking "Wordpress can do that", which in reality 99% of the time it is true.
I will begin (and continue to) post functions which you can add to your theme's functions.php file to help speed up production.
PHP, MySQL and AJAX Web Crawler
February 26th 2011
Web crawlers or spiders have all ways been one of the things that have kept me learning more and more about PHP (and even perl) and still I have not mastered the art of making a perfect PHP web crawler. The fact is, or what I believe to be so, is that PHP is just not that well equipped to deal with the amount of processing needed to make an efficient web crawler.
PHP Encryption and Decryption cypher
February 26th 2011
I set myself a chalange last year (purley for fun) to write an encryption cypher without using someone elses code or without using the same methods. After researching the different types of encryption cyphers that are out there, I decided to go with a Symmetric Encryption cypher.
Create A Simple Smartphone Site
Everyone has been talking about it and now they still are. It was time to look at frameworks and tutorials into creating smart phone sites and the fact is it is actually easier than you think using jQuery's, jQuery Mobile framework and I'll show you how to create a simple smart phone site using this framework.
Coming soon...