With NodeJS and server-side Javascript becoming a very prominent technology in web applications today, I figured Id give an introduction to NodeJS to get everyone up and running. "But how can Javascript run in a server environment, I thought it required a browser and was only used to make my website interactive". NodeJS allows you to build applications written in Javascript with the help of Google's V8 Javascript rendering engine that is at the heart of the Googl...
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Recently while I was working on a site that Im creating, I needed a way to easily send email out to users. Like a lot of people that have domain names and dont want to run their own mail server, I have decided to let Google Apps handle all of my email and app related needs. Now way you dont have a mail server and dont want to maintain one. Maybe you dont know how or just dont want to deal with maintaining such a service. Well as it turns out, you can use Google ...
Search Engine Optimization is an interesting topic since it seems that everyone and their brother
has a different idea on how it actually works. Today I hope to demystify some of the ideas around
SEO and show you some ideas that have worked for me in the past and even some other techniques
that are rather effective.
One of the first things that people immediately want with a website is having it on the front page
of Google. I mean, who wouldnt want that? With Google dominating the sea...
This past Thursday Google made public the source code to its new operating system, Chrome OS. Chrome OS is based on Linux, and based on some poking around under the hood, that flavor of Linux seems to be a mix of Debian's unstable and testing versions "squeeze" and "sid". But more on tha...
So I was playing around with the Google Calendar portion of the Gdata API the other day and did some searching and found that there wasnt a Codeigniter library for it, probably because it seems that Google has teamed up with the guys that are working on the Zend Framework to bring Gdata to the PHP world. So I took the ZendGdata API for Google Calendar and implemented it in Codeigniter so that you just need to make a few simple function calls to gain authorization to a calendar, add events, query...
