Programming Archive

Fixing Twitter Feeds

By next week (March 2013) Twitter will be switching off version 1 of its API forcing everyone to use version 1.1. For most the only difference you need to know between these two is that v1.1 requires authentication before you can access any goodies. And it’s this authentication that means any script, plugin or website [...]

How to show off your old posts

Back in October we launched yet another design for Dave’s site, pushing out some HTML5 and CSS3 goodness. But as can usually occur, something happened that we didn’t account for. By dropping the year from the date within the posts we had an increased number of comments on those older posts. Although it didn’t necessarily [...]

Ecommerce Platforms: an SEO’s nemesis?

God-bastard-dammit. Another day, another client. Another website that “can’t be changed”. Another calamitous drop in rankings caused by a weakness in site architecture and a lack of support for content delivery. I have a drink of tea and sigh. It’s another e-commerce platform. On paper, a platform offers something great: the opportunity to roll out [...]

Dangers of Custom Shortened URLs

If you’re not careful, custom shortened URLs can be dangerous – just like any other user-provided content. As an example I’m going to pick on bit.ly. They’re not the only site to have this problem, but since being chosen as the default URL shortener on Twitter they are probably the highest profile. http://bit.ly/robots.txt Where do [...]

Zippy Offline for Upgrade

Just to let you know that Zippy.co.uk has been taken down today so that it can undergo a major database restructure. Due to the increase in search volume that it has been getting in recent months it needs an overhaul to make it quick and more efficient again. We hope to get Zippy back up [...]

Ecommerce Shopping Carts

Why don’t webmasters just get it, when it comes to e-commerce you should really look at the marketplaces you want to sell to. I tend not to find many problems with international sites if they have an international team working on them, but so many times recently I have stop short of completing the purchase [...]

Greasemonkey Scripts

We’ve added a new section to the David Naylor site! We’ve been producing some Greasemonkey scripts recently and we thought you might find them useful. Greasemonkey is a funky little addon that lets you manipulate the page in lots of ways without having to go through the rigmarole of writing a full-blown plugin. It’s fantastic [...]

Zippy.co.uk for sale

Yep this is for real. I just don’t have time for Zippy, so I’m closing it or selling. If you’re interested in making a bid, let me know either on this post or privately. It’s getting around 5000+ visitors a day yahoo stats DaveN

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