It seems that the competition of the future web standards between HTML 5 and XHTML 2 has come to an end – just after the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) announced that it is going to increase available resources to HTML 5 by DISCONTINUING further development of XHTML 2…
Google App Engine (GAE) is a cloud computing platform provided by Google. GAE allows users to create rich web applications using either Python or Java. Publicly released in Jul, 2008, there has been thousands of GAE applications online. The Google App Engine has been recently updated to version 1.2.3 with several new features along with, unfortunately, a major decrease of free quota.
It is possible to move all WordPress installation files to a unique directory while keeping blogging at the root path of the domain. For example, WordPress can be moved to http://example.com/wordpress/ while can be still accessed at http://example.com/…
WordPress show the full articles for all posts on the index page (as well as the archive pages, including category archive pages, tag archive pages, search result pages). If the articles are long, the index page may look quite messed and be difficult to browse among articles on that page (except the first one). It’s sometimes good idea to show just excerpts/summaries of articles on the index…
WordPress keeps track of a list of all historical revisions of each post, but is at a cost and are sometimes annoying. Every time changes are made to a post, even a single word is modified, a new revision is recorded. As a result, the database will become cumbersome, making it tanke more space and slowing the querying and modifications of the table. On the other hand, many people just write their own blog and do not want keep the latest version of the articles…
There are strange directories named “Chrome” under the Mozilla Firefox installation path. Wondering what chrome actually is, I finally found some information on that. Here is something about what it was originally intended for and how one can exploit it for its own applications…
When trying to connect to a MySQL server from PHP using mysql_connect(), I got the following message and the connection failed:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client in example.php on line xx…
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