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My Text Link Inventory

I just realized today that I was suffering from the default 2MB PHP upload limit on my home recording site which is hosted at Lunarpages. My recording forum encourages users to upload their mp3 so other users can give their opinion on the quality of the mix. Well, a 2MB mp3 at 128kps [...]

One facet of textlinkcenter.com that I’ve been concerned about is the few sections where, using a cron job, I would have to update every record in a database when a given value. I thought I would have to pull out 2 zillion records, store them an array, and then re-insert them. Well, it [...]

My robo massive project continues. While I’m just cracking into the bottom level of being an “intermediate” php / MySQL programmer, I’m trying to Text Link Center the best it can possibly be. This means the whole process is very time consuming. So be it. I’ve just got to fight the [...]

One my home recording forum members contacted me about setting up a site for his band, Explicit Faith. Because we went with the Wordpress setup, he’s be able to get an extremely powerful website for MUCH less than it would have cost just a few years ago.
Frankly, I’m amazed at how fast I [...]

I stumbled upon a link today that has a list of ways to optimize vBulletin for greater performance / less server load.
If you have used vBulletin, you know that it’s not exactly a “light” load for a server. I must admit that SMF forum did feel quite a bit faster to me. [...]

I don’t know about you, but I REALLY hate seeing “%20″ in the URL. I haven’t figured out what Google thinks of it yet, but it just looks cheap to me. So when I’m writing SEO friendly URLs, I don’t want to leave any spaces. Let’s assume the title of this particular [...]

REGEx Price Explained
“/(^$)|(^[0-9]+$)|(^[0-9]+\.[0-9][0-9]$)/”,
This piece of REGEX has three different options as you can see with the ” | ” thingy which stands for “or”.
Option #1 is the (^$). The “^” means “Start with whatever is after this. The “$” means “end with whatever is before this. Since there is nothing [...]

Just in case you ever wanted to remove commas from a form automatically, this is one way to do it. It uses the javascript “onblur” trick. So when ever the mouse leaves this field, it calls the piece of code.
Why would you ever want to remove commas from a form?
MySQL databases don’t always [...]

Even our war-protesting liberals are driving gas guzzling SUV’s
I read a Buddhist philosophy book years ago. It said you can’t expect more from your government than you do from yourself.
There is nothing wrong with being a liberal idealist. However, you’ve got to walk the walk. This is why most liberals [...]