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Simple HTML Redirect

Nov 14, 2014 1 minute read #html, #web-development, #redirect, #code-snippet

I often find myself in need of a quick html redirect page. Most of the time I use the example from Stack Overflow but it involves changing the url in 3 places.
What is semalt and why are they in my analytics?

Sep 3, 2014 2 minute read #google-analytics, #analytics, #semalt, #spam

You may be among the many people having their Google Analytics stats skewed by fake referrals from semalt.
How to stop Google from scanning my site

Aug 28, 2014 1 minute read #google, #bots, #robots.txt

Sometimes there may be occasions where you don’t want Google (and other search engines) to scan some or all of your website.
Convert tweet hashtags, at-tags and urls to links with PHP and Regular Expressions

Jan 22, 2014 2 minute read #guide, #php, #regular-expressions, #tutorial, #tweet, #twitter-api

Now of course if you’re using the Twitter API you can use Twitter entities but in this tutorial we’re going to use regular expressions.
Google Charts IE7 IE8 Issue: Date formatting problem

Nov 28, 2013 2 minute read #google-charts, #ie7, #ie8, #javascript

Just a quick post about an issue I’ve had with Google Charts on IE7/8.

When viewing my page in Firefox or Chrome my graph displayed as expected.
Using the AddThis Share Buttons wordpress plugin in a custom theme

Mar 17, 2013 7 minute read #addthis, #theme, #wordpress

There is an undocumented function for adding a custom AddThis widget to your Wordpress theme when using the Add This Share Buttons plugin, so I thought I would document it here.
Using background-position and sprite sheets to stop icon hover flicker

Sep 18, 2012 3 minute read #css, #guide, #html

While updating the theme on this blog I added some links to my social websites. I made these links in the form of images which were black and white and become coloured when hovered over. To create these icons I created empty divs which would then be styled in CSS.
How to query a database with AJAX and display as a tooltip

Sep 11, 2012 5 minute read #ajax, #guide, #javascript, #jquery, #mysql, #php

This post began as an answer on Stack Overflow to a question on ‘How to query a database with AJAX and display as a tooltip‘. I have put the answer here for future reference.
Shrinking SQL logs

Feb 23, 2012 5 minute read #databases, #sql, #storage

While reading some articles about minimizing the size of data while leaving the data fully searchable I came across a lot of info about finding common data and replacing it with pointers to a dictionary or store of common strings. After thinking about it for a while I thought I would just write a little post about a way I try and minimize the size of databases in projects that I work on. Now I’m going to start with an example of a very bad database I wrote a while back and how I used relational tables to shrink the size considerably. Now if you know anything about databases you should find all of this quite obvious but if you don’t then it may be worth taking note of.

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