by stratosg | Jul 22, 2009 | Tutorials
You all must have heard of the term “API” but all of the non techy out there should have drowned in trying to understand what it is. First of all, a general definition of the term can be found on Wikipedia. But here i will concentrate on web services, as...
by stratosg | Jul 17, 2009 | Thoughts, Tutorials, WP Tweaks
All of you out there that know me, know that i am an efficiency freak. Most of the times, when someone flashes a plugin to me, i stop and say “is that really necessary?” instead of “this looks cool!”. I know, it’s mostly annoying but you...
by stratosg | Jul 15, 2009 | Featured Articles, My Coding, Tutorials
You all must have stumbled on static HTML sites. Either you created them or you found them around. The purpose of those sites today is simplicity. Not everybody needs dynamic content and thus not everybody needs complex CMS’s with huge back end administration...
by stratosg | Jul 9, 2009 | Featured Articles, Tutorials, WP Tweaks
Does the title ring a bell? I bet it does. It must remind you of the article i wrote quite some time ago titled “Get rid of the sociable plugins. Do it yourself!”. It helped a lot of people save some CPU time and memory usage. Now it’s time for the...
by stratosg | May 25, 2009 | My Coding, Tutorials
A few weeks back i posted on why our mailboxes are full of spam. I mentioned there that i had created a small and very simple perl script to crawl the internet and fish for plain text emails. It was a pretty easy task since Perl is designed for being easy on text...
by stratosg | May 12, 2009 | Thoughts, Tutorials
Since my early days, i’ve always been the one to second guess what the majority of people think. I’ve always been the “pain”, you know where. When i hear most of the people saying “this is bad”, or “this is not right”,...