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Yahoo! BOSS Search Extension für Typo3

Yahoo! bietet ja schon seit geraumer Zeit die BOSS API (“Build your Own Search Service”) an, hierbei handelt es sich um eine (noch) kostenlose und offene Schnittstelle zu deren Suchmaschine. (Noch) kostenlos deswegen, weil es sich Yahoo! vorbehält in Zukunft vielleicht doch Nutzungsgebühren, sog. “Fees” zu verlangen. Näheres dazu kann hier nachgelesen werden: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/fees.html. Typo3 [...]

Nächste auto_increment ID einer MySQL Tabelle

Wenn man wissen will was die nächste auto_increment ID einer MySQL-Tabelle werden wird, hilft SHOW TABLE STATUS weiter: Ergebnis: array(18) { [...] ["Index_length"]=> string(5) "33792" ["Data_free"]=> string(1) "0" ["Auto_increment"]=> string(4) "3847" ["Create_time"]=> string(19) "2009-06-25 11:54:04" [...] }

Detect bots via user agent string

When making full-flash websites, it's quite effective to deliver html-content to search engines.
To determine whether a visitor is a robot or not, you have to match the visitor's user agent against a list of known bot user agents.

Set zoom level of a google map so that all markers are visible

A couple of months ago I needed to set the zoom level of a Google Map so that all markers in the map are visible. After hours of reading the API documentation, I did not find any solution on that issue, so I wrote a little Javascript function that does exactly that.

Douglas Crockford on “Quality”

The subject of this talk is “Quality” — the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so. Again, an excellent presentation!