When developing a commercial project, one of the first steps to take care of during the design process, is to choose which environment suits the project most and set it up. When coding for wordpress, one of the most difficult things to take care of is not the coding itself but developing something that should work on a high number of different environments. Although it might sound weird – because the wordpress scripting language is the one and only php – environments can radically change the behaviour of your application/plugin.
The great majority of wordpress users do not really own the servers where the blog is published but rely on shared / dedicated hosting services that almost never allow customers to set/change their settings.
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devu programming curl, error, followlocation, php
Some weeks ago I started working on a project that required a basic user management (sign up, sign in, authentication, user profile etc.) and, instead of writing everything I spent some time looking for a sort php framework, or group of classes, easily-extendable and easy-customizable to see if I could save some time.
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devu programming login, php, profile, register, sign in, sign up, user authentication
I’m pretty sure no one did notice it, but a couple of weeks ago I developed a test widget that plays with the current Twitter location feature combined with the visitor ip location. It’s in the lower right corner, called Tweets near you :)
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devu twitter php, twitter, wordpress
When you’re new to Twitter and start following some popular Twitters, have you ever wondered if they saw your replies? I did, and some friends did too.
devu twitter follow, followers, Friends, mention, reply, twitter
I love rss as maybe you do. But analyzing stats of many sites I have access to, I noticed that, compared to visits, rss driven traffic is much lower. FeedBurner says Rss users are hundreds (one or two), a very little slice of many hundred thousands visitors per month. If I speak with friends who do not work in/with the web (but often use the internet for personal purposes), and mention Rss, they usually don’t really know what I am speaking about. They might have heard the word “rss” but they think it refers to something that is related to programmers, not just a very useful service. That’s why I though about trying a different way to syndicate web contents: because Really Simple seems not to be simple enough*.
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devu facebook, marketing, plugins facebook, marketing, rss, social network marketing, social networks, traffic, web analytics
Two new features have been released today on gBook: the photo detail page and the notifications page.
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devu facebook, google facebook, gadget, gbook, gmail
I am proud to introduce you the prototype version, the very first release, of the Facebook Gmail Gadget: gBook.
gBook allows you overview your Facebook account directly from your Gmail with a glimpse: status, walls, comments, photos and much more.
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devu facebook, google facebook, gadget, gbook, gmail
Yahoo! Search Marketing allows online advertisers to meet their potential customers in Yahoo! search engine result pages and on Yahoo! partners websites.
Let’s set up a PPC campagin for this blog with Yahoo! Search Marketing.
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devu marketing campaign, pay per click, pay per click campaign, ppc, yahoo! search marketing
It’s not that I am completely disappeared, it’s just that last week I shot a few bands (No Conventional Sound, The Rasmus, Children of Bodom, Cannibal Corpse and Negrita) and then spent the remaining free time improving my plugins.
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devu plugins Blogroll, plugin, search engine query, seo, wordpress
