Archives: 2008July

A new search engine called Cuil launched today and claims to index over 120 billion web pages. Sporting the same clean look with no advertising, Cuil challenges the biggest search engine Google in the search engine game.

Google says the first Google index in 1998 had 26 million pages, by 2000 they crossed the billion mark […]

Welcome to the fourth episode of the series Sending MIME email with PHP. In this article I m going to show you how to provide the MIME mailer class with the ability to send email messages in HTML format. This will greatly extend its functionality so don t miss this […]

Cuil supposedly means wisdom in Gaelic. In English pronounced cool it means business when it comes to Internet search. That s what its founders nearly all ex-Google employees want you to believe. Let s take a look at their claims and their performance to see whether […]

That’s the nocturnal Kakapo in the photograph on the right. The Kakapo probably recognizes the fruit it eats according to the fruit’s aroma. The Kakapo was one of the birds that was part of a recent research project that determined that birds likely have a much more developed sense of smell than was previously thought.

The […]

Google Adsense is testing again and a new Google Adsense ad widget format was spotted which promises to be more interactive, with scrollable photos and looks much less like an advertisement.
Technotip reported these strange Adsense widgets. I visited the site myself and spotted this 728×90px Leaderboard ad unit.

And another one 300×250px ad unit in the […]

While the execution speed of your codebase can be a factor in the overall scalability of your application more often than not your database will become a bottleneck first. Modern web development environments can generally serve many page loads per second and each of these pages will often make many requests to […]

After teasing us with an unveiling seven months ago Google finally opened up Google Knol to everybody. What does this mean Depending on who you ask it means higher quality content to index the death of Wikipedia and the rise of content thieves. It s also another step towards a […]

Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission and he was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Dr. Mitchell also insists that aliens have visited Earth and that governments are actively covering it up.

“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been […]

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I recently completed an article series in which we built a project management application. Every application that wants to control access to its resources has an access control mechanism that will verify if a user is allowed to use the particular application. A project management application is a good candidate for such a control. In […]