Recently, I wrote a Top 10 WordPress Plugins list. I should have made it Top 11. The additional plugin recommendation goes to WP-Cache. As you can gather from the name, WP-Cache will backup each WordPress HTML page in the file system so that the HTTP server responds faster for each page view. Basically the server/database [...]
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I am a big fan of Google Analytics. If you manage a blog, or any type of website for that matter, you should think of adding the little bit of JavaScript code that Google Analytics requires to start breaking down your page views. If you are developing a Rails app take a look at the [...]
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I have already gone in some detail about creating custom routes for your Ruby on Rails application. At this time, I would like to recall that you can pass additional parameters to your controller by adding them in your routes. The route above will resolve for a url such as the following. http://mydomain.com/mycontroller/myaction/1/2 For the [...]
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Here is a quick tip. If your Java application is connecting to SQL Server 2005 via JDBC and you get a connection exception, check your that SQL Server has its TCP/IP protocol enabled. It took me a bit of digging to realize this when setting up a new test server. Here are the steps. Open [...]
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I have mentioned different Jakarta libraries before. I described the Jakarta Common BeanUtils library in detail, describing how it is useful when accessing dynamic JavaBeans at runtime. I also scratched at the surface of Jakarta Commons IO with some code samples of FileUtils. Now I want to go over three classes made available from the [...]