Has your email ever become eerily silent? As in empty. You're not getting any. That happened to me recently. I was getting messages in some accounts, so I just thought I wasn't getting any mail --- until my wife sent me a message and I didn't get it. I use Thunderbird for a client, so usually I just click the ...

Recently Habari updated it's administrative code to use a new interface. The new interface relies much more heavily on javascript than the old one did, which allows it to pull off some pretty snifty tricks. One of these is on the entries page, where a list of all the posts you have written is displayed. ...

If you've read any Isaac Asimov or seen the movie Bicentennial Man, you've heard the term positronic brain. The positronic brain was the factor that gave Asimov's robots their consciousness and decision-making abilities....

The three plugins I had written - MetaDescription, MetaTitle, and MetaKeywords - are no longer available from this site, nor are they supported....

One of the things I've missed most in learning PHP is a debugger. A debugger is a necessity for productive work in any programming language. You need a debugger to step through code to understand how it works and is being called. You need a debugger to examine variables. ...

I use a lot of Microsoft tools. I've used Windows for years. I use Visual C++. I like the programs that you can get for Windows. ...

I've already updated the MetaTitle plugin. Andy at Digging in a Habari sandpit asked that it have the option of working even if the theme's template doesn't have an html title tag. I added this option to MetaTitle. The theme does still need to have an html head tag, though. To be honest, if it doesn't you really need to ...

I've just released the third leg of a series of SEO optimization plugins for Habari - MetaTitle....

As with the meta keywords tag, your page's meta description tag doesn't help your search engine rankings much, but it does allow you some control over how the page is described in search engine results. Many search engines (though not Google), will use what you have put in the meta description tag on the search results page....

If you've been blogging for any length of time, you know that a good part of your visitors will come from searching Google. That is, as long as Google knows about your site....