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I get lot’s of “how-to” questions from relatives, friend… There was nothing else for me to do then to start a new website, answering all those questions.
One thing I had in mind was – there are too many tech related sites, with all those mobile phone reviews and stuff, can I make something different?
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XML is very nice format for storing and especially transferring data between applications. Instead of old plain TXT files which you must parse from a strictly defined format, XML files gives your data 2nd dimension – a structure, so you basically “know” what data represents without need for parsing and cleaning it from rubbish.
Everybody is using it, so why shouldn’t you? :)
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Not so long time ago, I wrote about handling friendly URLs for your own site using Apache (it’s URL rewrite engine, and .htaccess file) and PHP – “Friendly URL, the easy way”.
In the meantime I was doing some changes to .htaccess file for one of my Wordpress installations, and what made me thinking was how does the Wordpress handle URLs.

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In one of my previous posts – Simple AJAX example, I explained a few steps that will help you enter the web 2.0 development world using famous AJAX method.
In that example we were submiting a HTML form with POST method using XmlHttpRequest and then processing the request server-side using PHP and getting some results back to JavaScript, to the client machine without refreshing the whole page. Very cool :)
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If you’re working on a Flash game in which you are saving player score in a database, you might wanna consider applying some security to it :)

As I know, you cannot access MySQL database directly from Flash, so you’ll need to do some ActionScripting and call an external script to do it for you. For this example, we’ll be using PHP as a server-side script that will be doing MySQL communication.
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For the past few months (or more) I’ve been building something I’d like to call “an ideal homepage“. Very hard task to do, but I’m sure I will come close to the idea with the project, sooner or later…
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By “large” I mean a forum with database of 300+ MB in size.
One of my clients wanted to change hosting company as his website grow over the past few years and he wasn’t satisfied with GoDaddy’s shared hosting, but also with GoDaddy service at all…
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Moving a project from one domain to another is something you should avoid. Unless it is really necessary – just don’t do it :)

But, maybe you sold a domain and want to transfer a project to another domain name. Then you have a lot of things to do.
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It’s been now more then a year that my wife and I released a new parenthooding forum in Croatia – www.superbaby.org.

Since then, forum became one of the most popular chat&help machines in Croatia for everybody who is and will become a parent.

At this point of time we are counting more then 1.600 registered members, more then 240.000 posts and a really big number of new and returning daily visitors.
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Did you noticed a new AdSense feature? Well, now you can park your domains on Google and have them paid within AdSense paycheck.

I’ll try this with one or two domains, just to see how it’ll go, and I get better results then with Parked.com I’ll probably redirect all of my domains.
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