Author: Jon

Searching and Minimum Word Length

Mike Boone, in the comments section of yesterday’s entry on searching (“Updated Search“), correctly points out that searching my site for a word that is less than four characters in length (like “php” or “cow”) does not work—no results are returned. Obviously, since I write about PHP on occasion, this is untenable. The problem is… Continue reading Searching and Minimum Word Length

Updated Search

I’ve been vastly updating the search functionality on my site. I’m still using MySQL‘s built-in FULLTEXT indexing to perform searches, but I’ve made the results page look a lot more (okay, almost exactly like) Google‘s. The main differences are that I’m not paginating search results (yet)—all searches limit to 10 results—and that I’m showing a… Continue reading Updated Search

PHP Development Hint

Here’s a general hint for PHP development: A quick and easy way to check for syntax or compile errors without uploading the PHP script to the Web server and testing online through a browser is via the command line. It’s obvious, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner, but I’ve been… Continue reading PHP Development Hint

New (Old) Design

Just flipped the switch on the site design I wrote about (see “Everything Old is New Again“). So far things are looking good, but there might be some bugs still lurking. And right now the changes only apply to the blog pages; I haven’t reworked the ebooks page or others, yet. And there’s two new… Continue reading New (Old) Design

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Button Sites

My post about the buttons from the other day (“Those small web buttons…“) yielded up some excellent links: Taylor McKnight has an amazing archive of all the known buttons, 2025 at current count. Nice. I’m not even bothering to “collect” any more. Kalsey Button Maker is an online app that automagically creates the buttons for… Continue reading Button Sites

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Google Image Search

Playing around with Google‘s image search, I’ve thought of some advanced search features they need to implement. Hopefully someone at Google is reading this and will get right on it 😉 You need to be able to search by specific image dimensions (in pixels); for example, I’d like to be able to type “width:80 height:15”… Continue reading Google Image Search

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Those small web buttons…

I’ve been noticing recently the proliferation (mostly on blog sites) of those small image files that are 80 pixels wide by 15 pixels high, are generally two-tone in color and use a simple old-school-looking font. Like these: And I’m wondering, what’s the story? What are they called, exactly? (I’m thinking either “buttons” or “badges.”) Who’s… Continue reading Those small web buttons…

Old Farm District

So I was driving home from work today and as I crossed Third Street onto Brosterhous I noticed a new sign proclaiming the area I was entering the “Old Farm District.” What was interesting about this is that the sign is in the same style as those of The Old Mill District, so I thought… Continue reading Old Farm District

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