10 ways to increase pages indexed

Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008
For a while now webmasters have fretted over why all of the pages of their website are not indexed. As usual there doesn’t seem to be any definite answer. But some things are definite, if not automatic, and some things seem like pretty darn good guesses.
Editor’s Note: If you know [...]

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TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. [...]

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January Newsflash

Python has been declared as programming language of 2007. It was a close finish, but in the end Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (2.04%). There is no clear reason why Python made this huge jump in 2007. Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first [...]

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IBM developerWorks: Mastering regular expressions in PHP

The IBM developer works website has posted the first part of a series they’ve created to help PHP developers become more informed about what regular expressions are and how they can harness their power for their applications.
Pattern matching is such a common chore for software that a special shorthand — regular expressions — has [...]

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CakePHP 1.2 Release (and a New Site Design)

As Chris Hartjes points out there’s a new release of the popular PHP framework CakePHP (as well as a new web site design).
You can grab the latest download directly from the homepage or look into the manual to find out more about the framework and how it can be used.

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Rails for PHP Developers Website Launched

Mike Naberezny has start up a new resource to try to bridge some of the gap between PHP and Ruby and to help developers of either to get a bit more insight into the others’ side – Rails for PHP Developers (based on the book published by the Pragmatic Programmers).
Rails for PHP Developers [...]

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The Web’s Most, Biggest, Best, and Worst of 2007

Biggest Winner: Apple and the Jesus Phone
You know your product’s hit a nerve when people pair it up with the savior of the world. Apple CEO Steve Jobs induced a Web-and-media-wide paroxysm by introducing the iPhone last January, which lasted until the mob turned on him over steep price cuts in advance of the [...]

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