Recently I began diving head first into CodeIgniter, a PHP MVC framework. During the installation process I ran into a major problem with URL rewriting within the CodeIgniter environment and Dreamhost.
CodeIgniter provides an .htaccess solution to create friendly URLs. Which in most cases works very well. However, with Dreamhost this solution does not work. The [...]
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CodeIgniter ModRewrite for Dreamhost
Order Posts by Meta Value Numbers in Wordpress
The following changes work on Wordpress version 2.8.*, prior version will need a slightly different change.
A brief background first. I needed to have a page in which my posts were ordered by the meta_values to a particular meta_key. By default meta_value is LONGTEXT data in mysql, therefore we are unable to order posts by meta_value [...]
10 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Developers
It’s pretty clear by now what browser is most widely used by all web developers, Mozilla Firefox. Though it is far from the most widely used browser, that title is held by our friends at Microsoft and its Internet Explorer, it is definitely the first tool in a web developers toolbox.