Found myself looking up the CodeIgniter URL Helper documentation the other day.
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The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda
Found The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda while doing some quick research on Carlos Castaneda. Haven’t read the article… only skimmed it. Figured I’d make a note so I could come back to it when (if) I have more time.
Creating a MySQL database from the command-line, and snipplr
Today I was looking up the syntax to create a MySQL database from the command-line and found instructions on Snipplr. I haven’t seen snipplr before. I guess I’ll have to spend some time one day browsing the popular snippets.
Direct, referral or organic traffic
Just trying to get my head around the ‘Direct’, ‘Referral’ and ‘Organic’ traffic classifications in Google Analytics. Basically ‘Direct’ is where there is no referrer header, e.g. user typed URL into address bar, clicked on link in email, etc. ‘Referral’ means some website referred the traffic, e.g. a link in an article on another website. ‘Organic’ means that one of a predefined set of search engines referred the traffic in response to a search.
Not sure how Google AdWords traffic is classified… I expect that would be ‘Referral’ as it’s not ‘Direct’ and not really ‘Organic’ either.
Online advertising and website popularity
I was doing some research into online advertising and found… nothing… swear!
Also I used alexa.com for the first time to get some reports on my domains, for example jsphp.co which is ranked 5,148,442 in the world.
I’d like to know what the average number of monthly visitors to all websites is (so I could know if my sites were more or less popular than the average website), but my search didn’t turn up any answers.
I bumped into this MLM scam guy too. He did mention one useful thing though: authorize.net, an online payment system.
A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language
I was just confirming my understanding that JavaScript numbers are 64-bit (i.e. double precision) floats on all platforms and I stumbled upon this old article from Douglas Crockford: A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language.
CSS overflow property
Found myself looking up the syntax for CSS overflow. I think I ended up using overflow-y instead to get scrollbars on the y-axis only. I should know more about this stuff than I do. :P
JavaScript setTimeout
Found myself looking up the syntax for the JavaScript setTimeout function today.
jQuery.browser
I used the jQuery.browser interface for the first time today to put in an IE hack.
CSS drop down menus
Doing some research into CSS based drop down menus. Found 25 Scripts for Dropdown Navigation Menus. The ones I like the most are All Levels Navigational Menu and particularly jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu #1.