Tour de France 2012 The 2012 TdF is a clockwise affair this year, starting in Liege (Belgium), twisting around northern France and the Alps before heading westward to the Pyrenees towards the end of this most arduous of Grand Tours. For a ... (more)
Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)
Impartiality in the heating oil domestic market can be as slippery to grasp as the heating oil itself. Last time you visited a heating oil website that offered oil quotes, did you know which company was actually quoting you? And when you ... (more)
Server Smarts™ Newsletter: August 2010: 7 Tips to Improve SEO Here are the seven best SEO tips that our team members noted at a recent Pubcon Masters SEO/SMO Training seminar. Mashable.com: 4 Tips for Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts Here ... (more)
Webmasters can now put Google's "like competitor" +1 on their web pages. Many webmasters will groan with trepidation at the thought of having to squeeze yet another piece of social javascript junk onto their beautifully crafted pages, but ... (more)
Twitter has added a new string to its impressive API collection, and this one is aimed squarely at web publishers who republish tweets. With a bit of (very simple) HTML and a Javascript inclusion, we can create links that favorite, retweet ... (more)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7279529.stm London Mayor Ken Livingstone has been in talks with Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme about the possibility of the event to returning to London after last ... (more)
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MySQL Programming MySQL is a fantastic platform to learn database programming, and is also used by lots of very large and fast websites. If you want to get stuck into dynamic web sites, then you could do far worse than the highly popular ... (more)
Share Your Seeds The BBC's Gardeners Question Time raised a dual issue common to virtually all small-scale gardeners: how to economise on seed-buying, and what to do with your leftover seeds. Some gardening websites feature 'seed swap ... (more)