Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Web Programming on Apr 26th, 2007
You've seen them as a feature of Web 2.0 web sites, big bunches of keywords called tags or a tag cloud. You've got a large database of items and you'd like to add this feature to your site. It's easier than you might think.
Step 1: Getting The Tags From Your Users
The first part [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Web Programming on Apr 25th, 2007
Author's Note: Now the stuff below is not the code you'd use if you were building the next Digg. It's just a simple demonstration of the concepts. But if you're looking to start building your own rating script, it's an excellent start to get you familiar with how the most elemental functions [...]
Posted in Techno Thoughts, Web Programming on Mar 31st, 2007
While working on some projects, I wanted to develop a comment engine, so people could comment on posts. I know, I could just use a blog, but a blog wouldn't have fit these applications.
Additionally, I wanted comment threading and to be able to sort the hierarchy simply, using a minimum of RAM and CPU [...]