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In this article, the author talks about 12 things you can do to turn your website into a web 2.0 friendly website. But because I do not have a personal web 2.0 site, let’s just use this blog as a model.
1. Replace esomething.com with MYsomething.com – Not applicable. [...]

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While reading a 100 things we didn’t know this time last year on BBC, I learned that “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines. That prompted me to do a research on the subject of misspelled words in search engines, and hence, this post was born.
On Wednesday May 23, 2007, [...]

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WordPress has launched a new service called Jobs at WordPress, which is a job board for all things WordPress. According to their FAQs, the service is currently in beta and it will be free while in beta. Jobs are categorised into:

General positions
WordPress blogger positions
WordPress design positions and
WordPress programmer positions

There are already a [...]

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One of the importances of any website or business is to bring your products or services to the right people and to reach the target audience. There are a number of different distribution channels available on the Internet which could be utilisied efficiently to the benefits of your website. We have watched and witnessed the [...]

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Many people seem to be neglecting the importance of a good Page Not Found (404) page when designing a website. A good 404 page should help visitors find what they are initially looking for, and keep them on the site. Not having an effective 404 page can cause a great loss of [...]

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It is not everyday that you see Digg – Out of service page, so I thought I’d share it with you guys.
Technorati Tags: digg, design, out of service, screenshot

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UPDATE `tablename`
SET `fieldname` = CONCAT(UCASE(SUBSTRING(`fieldname`,1,1)),”,
LCASE(SUBSTRING(`fieldname`,2,LENGTH(`fieldname`))))
WHERE `id` = 1

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I saw this interesting article Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off on softwaredeveloper.com via digg programming and thought you might also find it interesting.
The programming languages that many people have not heard of are:

ALGOL 68: ALGOrithmic Language 1968
brainfuck
Befunge
REBOL: Relative Expression Based Object Language
ColdFusion (I think this is going [...]

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Are you building a form where you have a drop down list of countries for users to choose from? If you are, you might find the following snippet handy.

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5 July 2007 — A consortium of PHP developers has announced today that several leading Open Source PHP projects will be dropping support for older versions of PHP in upcoming releases of their software as of February 5, 2008 as part of a joint effort to move the PHP developer community fully onto PHP [...]

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