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Twitter Location API to support name of places

The Twitter Location API used to tell only latitude and longitude of the location where a person is tweeting from. But now the Twitter Location API is to be extended with the support of name of places or locations, such as “Joe’s Bar on Manhattan” or “downtown LA.”.

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How to develop desktop-like web applications ?

Uki is a JavaScript library that allows you to develop web applications to have the look and feel and interactiveness of a desktop application. You can get Uki from Ukijs.org.

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How to eliminate Mixed content security warning on your web pages

Security mixed content warning
You should have been pretty familiar with the above prompt of your web browser, especially Internet Explorer, if you’ve been involved in developing web pages for your websites that are delivered via the HTTPS secure channel.

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Web Hosting review blog

I’ve started a new blog, Have Your Business Online, which is a blog that centers around web hosting services, reviews, e-commerce and CMS solutions or the essential tools that you need to bring your business online.

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Convert documents into flash, a web-viewable format

One of my projects is studying on how to convert any documents in Word, Excel or Powerpoint formats into FLASH format which is viewable by most browsers with flash plugin.

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Google Chrome fails some Ajax Apps ? It fails to load some Facebook apps


Google Chrome is supposed to work well with every single ajax-based applications. But surprisingly, it seems to fail loading some facebook apps. For example the Facbook Blog RSS Feed reader, it was taking extremely long time to load. And I assumed the page didn’t load at all. The page was loaded pretty fast on Firefox, which took less than few seconds.

How to get rid of error or warning messages output by PHP in a programatic way for a production PHP web app

Lets say you’re on a shared hosting, or you’re only a programmer which you have NO control at all on the error warning messages output by PHP, such as those E_WARNING, E_ALL, E_STRICT etc.

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How to write your own cloaking detector in PHP

Cloaking is black hat SEO that we always hate, especially running wordpress that always gets hacked with spam links injection at the bottom of your footer page.

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JotForm – an online web form builder


Somehow it’s kind of time consuming to create a web form. Of course, if you’re pretty familiar with HTML coding like me, it wouldn’t be a problem. Just start typing those HTML tags <table></table><form></form><input type=…/><select>, adding some JavaScript codes and CSS to blend it up nice with verification and themes, shall do.

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Ask Alexia – the ajax search engine

I’ve developed great passion in developing applications in ajax since it was introduced a couple of years ago. And of course over the Internet now, they’ve been tons of ajax-based applications. And the only ajax app that I’ve got online is my own-developed Ask Alexia search engine

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