APIs Tutorials
PHP Woot Checker – Tech, Wine, and Shirt Woot
If you haven't heard of Woot.com, you've been living under a rock. For those who have been under the proverbial rock, here's the plot:
MSN Live Search Result Grabber
Within the last month, I've created two popular SEO tools: Google Grabber and Yahoo Grabber. Each grabber goes to the respective website and retrieves the number of pages a specified domain has indexed in the search engine. Having the indexed number of pages so quickly and easily is invaluable and a great sales tool.
CSS3 and Your Browser
CSS3 has been in the works for quite a while but the "A grade" browsers have been slow to implement many of the new selectors. How is your current browser vendor doing? Use the CSS Selector test suite to find out!
PHP Alexa Rank Fetcher Class
The most well known online website popularity measuring stick appears to be Alexa. Alexa provides a wealth of information on a given website, most notably:
Download a URL’s Content Using PHP cURL
Downloading content at a specific URL is common practice on the internet, especially due to increased usage of web services and APIs offered by Amazon, Alexa, Digg, etc. PHP's cURL library, which often comes with default shared hosting configurations, allows web developers to complete this task.
6 Reasons To Use JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks
I've seen many articles around the internet from JavaScript fundamentalists that advocate writing your own JavaScript code instead of using JavaScript frameworks like MooTools, Prototype / Scriptaculous, jQuery, MochiKit, YUI Library, and Dojo Toolkit, and I just cannot agree with their reasons for not using these spectacular frameworks.