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Scott Thompson former yahoo ceo

Scott Thompson forced to resign from his position as CEO of Yahoo Inc

Shortly after the doctored resume scandal broke out, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, the man who stood accused of lying on his resume by claiming to have acquired a bachelor’s degree … Continue reading

Mark Zuckerberg at the 37th G8 Summit in Deauville May 2011

What ever happened to the website Friendster and could Facebook end up like Friendster?

For some reason I woke up this morning and suddenly remembered that before Facebook there was Friendster, and I wondered, “What ever happened to friendster”? Like facebook is now, Friendster … Continue reading

Will using green in your website design help your site make more money?

Just a random and probably ridiculous question, but I’ve wondered this for some time and even tried in the past using green in my own web development projects hoping that … Continue reading

MySQL query to find duplicate post titles in WordPress wp_posts table in database

The below (WordPress specific) will select posts that have the same post title: SELECT `post_title` FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_status` NOT LIKE ‘%inherit%’ GROUP BY `post_title` HAVING count(post_title) > 1 Know … Continue reading

PHP array letters A-Z

There are a number of ways to create an array of letters A-Z in PHP. The easiest one we found when we needed to do this ourselves was: $alphas=range(‘a’, ‘z’); … Continue reading

How to loop through array randomly PHP?

One method you could use to loop through an array randomly in PHP is to shuffle the array before you use it. Example, to loop through the numbers 1 – … Continue reading

Can’t find option in wordpress to turn off comments on pages?

Try the following work around: Go to your admin Click the Pages link in your Dashboard menu Instead of clicking “Edit” to edit a specific page, click on “Quick Edit“. … Continue reading

How to check if a number is evenly divisible by 10 in php

To check if a number is evenly divisible by 10 in PHP you can use the following: if($num %10 == 0) { // Do something } Example $myexamplearray=range(1,100); foreach($myexamplearray as … Continue reading

How to create array of numbers 1 – 1000 in PHP without writing out each number?

You might expect to be able to use $myarray=array(1,1000); but that will not work if you are trying to create an array of consecutive numbers 1 – 1000 in PHP; … Continue reading

How to select from a mysql database where the field value has a specified length?

Maybe you need to find entries in a database where the filed value is only 3 characters in length or less than 7 characters in length or matches some other … Continue reading