Archive for May, 2007

Bad code, bad data flow, good idea?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When working with any kind of MVC framework you find yourself at some points thinking, I could really have designed this better. This may be that your views are cascading badly, your model has code in it that should […]

14May2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

10 Reasons why PHP is still very much alive

I have recently come across quite a few articles about the current state of PHP. The current situation does seem, on one hand, quite bleak. We know that the current install base of PHP 5 is still only around 17% and it does not look like that will suddenly increase. We could have a state […]

11May2007 | Nick Halstead | 20 comments | Continued

Making a TAG Cloud out of Zend_Cache

As some of you may or may not know I have been working on a large project based upon the Zend Framework. I have in a previous post posted a few screenshots of a couple of the tools I have written to administer some of the frameworks abilities. Today I thought I would release a […]

9May2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

AuctionAd$ and favorite.me Update

I have been running my AuctionAd$ add-on on my blog for about 4 days now. For those who have not read the previous posts, not only does it dynamically change the keywords used within the advert, it also adjusts to display adverts for the more popular keywords more frequently.

Keyword

Weight

wii
14205

n95
17425

d80
1000

sp550
5710

802.11n
1285

umpc
12315

digital frame
1875

irobot
10370

So, for example, if you […]

7May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

How to make AuctionAd$ dynamic with PHP

I had decided to try out AuctionAd$ as an alternative to Google AdSense because Google wasn’t giving me decent enough adverts to display. When I signed up for AuctionAd$ I quickly realised that although I had more control over the adverts by specifying the keywords it also meant I was the one responsible for making […]

4May2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Internet World Show 2007 - My fun day

As I stated in the previous post I went into London today to visit the Internet World show at Earls Court. This was the last day of the show which I thought would be less busy and perhaps would have more freebies left to claim for my good readers.
How it started

As I walked out onto […]

3May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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