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Utnyttja statistiken från din hemsida

Glöm inte att följa statistiken ifrån din hemsida. Vad letar dina besökare efter när de hittar din hemsida? Att använda ett bra statistikverktyg som Piwik eller Google Analytics kan öppna ett helt nytt sett för dig att se din egen … Continue reading

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How to avoid a page being cached

All web programmers have probably had trouble with browsers caching pages it ought not to. So what can we do about it? Well in good old HTTP 1.0 we had a nice header that simply said: Pragma: no-cache Easy huh? … Continue reading

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PHP Serialize vs Database normalization

I’ve recently started developing plugins for WordPress in PHP. Being an old school Perl programmer PHP comes very easy and MySQL is still same old MySQL. PHP don’t have many advantages over Perl in general except one very good one: … Continue reading

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WordPress as a simple CRM

I recently started a new business where I really want to focus on taking care of the customer needs, being proactive rather than reactive to them. As such I need a simple Customer Relations Management (CRM) tool to keep track … Continue reading

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Set a static IP in Ubuntu JeOS

I got a few questions about setting a static IP in Ubuntu JeOS. Here is a short and easy step by step guide! The network settings are stored in the file /etc/network/interfaces and it’s always a good idea to make … Continue reading

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Having fun with the WordPress Database

Today I’ve improved the starting page of this domain, www.fireflake.com. It looked very booring and I thought I’d have to do something with it but at the same time I knew I was to lazy to acctually maintain some interesting … Continue reading

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Google Blueprint CSS tutorial

This is a basic tutorial of the first use of Google Blueprint as a CSS layout. Download Blueprint CSS Download the main library att Google Code, at the time of this writing that is the file “Blueprint 0.7.1.zip”. http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/downloads/list There … Continue reading

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IIS easy restart

One annoying thing about the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) is that it’s quite a few clicks in order to restart it through the normal GUI. If you use it as a development environment and happen to make an infinite … Continue reading

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