There are a few different ways to make money with Flash games. In today’s article I will discuss the simplest way. It requires no development and no Flash skills. It does require a bit of investment (not a lot though) and some search engine optimization (SEO) skills.
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iPhone Apps Randomly Crashing?
Today at work I was advancing one of our iPhone applications. It’s a pretty basic application, has a menu which displays some data from the web via XML; all of that fun stuff.
On occasion, I would try to push a view controller and the application would randomly crash, e.g.:
[code]
-(void) showMainMenu {
[mainNavigationController pushViewController:mainMenuViewController animated:YES];
}
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Optimizing CakePHP Websites
CakePHP offers a lot of functionality to us as developers. The ability to develop websites rapidly provides a trade-off in how quickly the website will load. As we expand our skills, we will learn the techniques that will slow down/speed up performance.
Objectives
- Apply techniques to speed up CakePHP’s load time
- Optimize our queries
- Cache query results
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Adding SEO functionality
Two of the biggest things that will improve your search engine rankings are keyword rich website titles and keyword rich links to your content. Today’s lessons will cover both of these topics.
Objectives
- Improve our search engine rankings
- Set a title tag
- Map a specific URL to a custom controller and action
- Avoid using ids or numbers in our URL
Before I start, I would like to make it clear that this article is and does not intend to be a be-all-to-end-all of the SEO necessities for your website. It is meant to describe some excellent techniques to quickly and easily improve upon CakePHP to make it more SEO friendly. (more…)
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Developer High Fives (in honor of Barney Stinson)
Last night was the premiere of my current favorite TV show “How I Met Your Mother”. If you are not familiar with the show, former childhood star Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser), plays a character named Barney Stinson. Barney is known for several catch-phrases as well as special high fives.
Borrowing some of the more popular high fives, I have created a top five high fives for developers.
Without further adieu, let’s begin the countdown. (more…)