Using .htaccess To Make Testing Easier

Swamp Ass PSA starring Nathan Fillion0 Comments »

The Nerd Machine has created some pretty hilarious short videos. Check this one out for some tips on Swamp Ass

Posted on: July 20th, 2011 Author: brenelz Categories: Uncategorized

Getting started with YQL and AJAX0 Comments »

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to build a simple tool that will use Yahoo!’s YQL query tool to search for some tracks from their music website. These results will then be displayed on our website all using AJAX to make it seamless along with a link to buy the album off Amazon.
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What is YQL?

YQL stands for Yahoo! Query Language, it lets you query, filter, and join data across most of Yahoo!’s (and a few other’s) services with a similar structure to SQL. This is useful as its all written in one language making it easier to build sites and web apps that will use different services but join them all together. To get started with seeing what YQL looks like its a good idea to try out their YQL Console. From this we can see that it will deliver our content back in either XML or JSON, in this tutorial we will be using JSON. The format of YQL was built to be very similar to that of SQL so it makes learning it even easier.

Posted on: July 18th, 2011 Author: Alex Categories: Uncategorized

Brenelz.com Changes Hosting!1 Comment »

Brenelz.com is proud to announce we have switched over from Dreamhost to OnCallSoftware.net for our hosing. Dreamhost just seemed too slow, and had way too many server outages. Hopefully this will help us grow this blog to new heights!

We would love to know if you see a speed difference, hit the comments!

Posted on: June 6th, 2011 Author: brenelz Categories: Uncategorized

Using .htaccess To Make Testing Easier1 Comment »

Do you have trouble implementing a phase II of a website? I know it can be a pain having to develop a phase II on top of an existing live site. Obviously you can’t just modify the live server without testing; but other alternatives can be troublesome as well.

Its not fun having 2-3 different copies of a website. Get’s confusing which is live, what changes have been done on which, etc. Well I found one way to somewhat ease the pain. I know some of you out there have more in depth solutions such as ZooKeeper or Capistrano, but both didn’t really suit my needs and are a bit complex.