Weekly Roundup - December 10th 2007
Posted December 10th, 2007 in Weekly Roundup
This is my weekly roundup for the week of December 3rd to December 9th 2007, where I look back at the posts I made over the past week as well as useful and interesting articles on other websites and blogs that I might have read.
Articles posted on my blog
Tuesday marked the 50th day in a row that I actually posted new content to my blog, so I thought I should write a post about it, and a little history about this blog. Then on Wednesday I finally added an RSS feed to this site, using Technorati's service so I can see roughly how many people are subscribed to it. I was surprised after the first day that there were already 14 subscribers but then something like half of them were me testing it in various online and offline readers... the numbers have since dropped but I'll be interested to see what happens over time.
The rest of week saw me actually getting back to posting about LAMP stuff...:
- Replacing relative URLs with absolute URLs in PHP - I needed to do this to make the links and images work in my RSS feed, so thought I'd post up how I did it
- Shell scripting using the date command
- PHP magic constants - looking at __FILE__, __LINE__, __CLASS__, __METHOD__ and __FUNCTION__
- MySQL Backups with a Command Line PHP Script - this is from the command line and uses the mysqldump command, but I also found another website posting a class for backing up MySQL directly from a PHP script. I haven't tried this one out myself yet but it looks like it could be useful. Read about the MySQLDump PHP class on the coders4fun blog.
Minor navigation layout changes
After setting up the RSS feed I made a couple of minor navigational changes to the right navigation, moving my sites from the top to the bottom (and re-titling them "My other sites"), re-ordering and splitting up the categories a little, and adding in an RSS fedd subscribe link. I still need to promote the RSS feed more by having a subscribe link at the end of each post, and will get to that soon.
Interesting articles found offsite
I seem to keep subscribing to more and more feeds and keep finding interesting stuff. There's a lot here this week and I'm now thinking about setting up another site which I post to with these everyday and file under particular categories. Kind of like an online bookmarking system for myself. Right, here goes:
Linux.com looked at Linux swap space, what it's for and how to modify it etc.
Google officially announced that it has been messing around with PageRank. Their webmaster guidelines have been modified to state "Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results." More info at The Register's article
Talkphp.com looked at Auto Suggest Using PHP/MySQL & Ajax using the prototype and scriptaculous Javascript libraries.
Dailybits.com looked at 6 bizarre online gaming incidents
Linux.com looked at lftp, a useful command line FTP client with easy mirroring and backup capabilities.
Talkphp had a basic subscribe and unsubscribe newsletter script
And there were a number of posts at talkphp about creating graphs in PHP; pie chart with example, bar chart with example and line chart with example
Last week I posted links to articles which showed how to use GMail IMAP with Outlook and Thunderbird.This week, linux.com posted how to use Google IMAP with KMail/Kontact, the KDE default email client.
digital-web.com posted an introduction to the jQuery Javascript library. I haven't used this myself but it might pay to take a look sometime.
A List Apart gave us a preview of HTML 5
fundamentaldisaster.blogspot.com gave us a practical guide to numbers in Javascript
blamcast.net looked at how to block bots, and ban IP addresses with .htaccess and in an earlier article how to stop hotlinking of images on your webpages.
LinuxJournal.com looked at how to trap Shell-Script Errors when changing to a directory that may not exist
InformationWeek.com looked at how PayPal works in a 4000 box Linux cluster running a stripped down version of RHEL.
Some hints from the MySQL Performance Blog about being careful when rotating MySQL log files
Sébastien Wains had a how to for retraining DSPAM with Debian Etch
Microsoft published a detailed Vista SP1 changelog
Ruby on Rails 2.0 was released. I don't use this myself but have had a very brief look into it and the Ruby programming language. I may have a tinker with it one day.
phpMyAdmin 2.11.3 was released. This is a bugfix release only.
And finally for this week's list, how to generate photo mosacis with Metapixel on Linux
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