As a resident and affiliate living in Illinois, I have been following the state's Affiliate Nexus Tax or "Amazon Tax" with some interest. I was one of the first sites to publish the news, reported the governor signing it into law, covered the federal and circuit court lawsuit brought against Illinois regarding the tax, reported one State Representative's attempt to repeal, and … [Read more...]
Easily delete ‘cached’ Custom Field entries from WordPress
The default WordPress 'Posts' post type has a section called Custom Fields that greatly increases the extensibility of WordPress. Many plugins and themes make use of the custom fields to hold extra metadata about a post or display special information. If you have installed and deleted plugins before or even mistyped the name of a custom field before, those entries can keep … [Read more...]
Drag racing websites to compare speed
If you want to compare two website's loading time, you should check out whichloadsfaster.com. The service allows you to see which website loads faster and by what factor. It suggests some random matchups when you first visit the page like Google v. Bing, Apple v. Adobe, Amazon v. Shopzilla, and TMZ v OMG! but it's more useful for running your own tests on websites you are … [Read more...]
Creating and editing views in phpMyAdmin
Using phpMyAdmin recently for a database project, creating a View wasn't readily apparent. I eventually found it and it's right where it needs to be if you know where to look. … [Read more...]
Utilize Memcache with your phpBB forum
One of the features introduced in phpBB 3.0.6 (back in November 2009) was the ability for phpBB to utilize other caching modules beyond its own file caching. phpBB is already quite fast for a dynamic web application that pulls its information from a database. If you have a large number of posts and a lot of users, you may be able to get even better performance by utilizing a … [Read more...]