If you’re working with crappy web host, you might notice that you’re getting a lot of blank PHP pages. This is likely due to PHP’s error reporting being completely turned off - here’s a fix.

Curious about how long your PHP pages take to load - or maybe you’re on a total optimizing / refactoring rampage? This will help you see how many microseconds you can shave off your page generation time.

Want to thwart those pesky spambots? These 2 simple PHP functions can mask those email addresses, and when worked into your CMS, can make it super easy for you and your clients to whip up safe email links on the web.

In this short article, I cover some of the lesser known mac keyboard shortcuts that are nice because many allow your hands to remain in the standard keyboard position, and don’t require the arrow keys. I also cover some of the Firefox shortcuts I use the most.

Tired of clicking through those long Television Without Pity reviews? Then you should try out this simple tool that collects all the pages for you into 1 printer friendly page.

Whenever somebody asks me how they can get more “organic” search engine traffic to their site, one of the first things I look at are the Page Title and Heading 1 tags on the page. I created this handy tool as an easy to to tell what they are, or aren’t.

These tend to be the first two HTML tags that search engines look at. Learn what they do, how they relate to search, and how to really take advantage of them. It’s not that hard, honest!

This example deals primarily with pulling option values out of select boxes, and should be much easier to understand than my last, somewhat convoluted Beautiful Soup example. However, much like the previous example, this one stemmed from a “real world” need. I’m talking about trying to find a bargain vacation on the super slow website, […]

My series of Beazley-related Python lessons picks up again here. This is actually a small part of a bigger assignment, which was to decode the files within a user’s Firefox cache (coming later), but this nice little script can be handy to find about anything on your system with Python.
Every Firefox cache contains a file […]

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