Comparing MySQL search speed for different column types
Starting work on a new website I wanted to know which type of MySQL column was the fastest to search on. I assume it's a numeric column, but I really want to know how much of a difference it makes....
View Article8 Reasons NOT to start a forum
There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a...
View ArticleInserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum
After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum. What I wanted to make sure would happen is that...
View ArticleGoCodes redirection plugin
Have you ever needed to give out a URI from a blog post? Sure, you can do it, but the URIs are usually pretty long. And forget about it if you're saying it over the phone or on a podcast. A WordPress...
View ArticleHow to insert tabs in a textarea
I've always found it annoying that tabs don't, well, tab in textareas on HTML pages. To be fair, they do what they're supposed to and move on to the next field. But for a web app I'm working on I...
View ArticleHow to embed a Google Video in SMF
About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost...
View ArticleBookmarking threads on an SMF board
This is one of those features I've been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend. With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a...
View ArticleWordPress: Get custom field function
On several WordPress projects I've needed to get the value of a custom field. Not too difficult using the get_post_meta command, but I wanted a little quicker way. So I now add this little function...
View ArticleSMF and StopForumSpam.com
Found a great site over at StopForumSpam.com. Over the past few weeks I've been checking registrations on a couple of my forums against their database. What I've found is that most of the registrations...
View ArticleWordPress, source code, and smart quotes
Turns out WordPress tries to make your posts look a little better by swapping out all normal quotes with smart quotes. That’s great for typography, but really bad when you’re posting source code like I...
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