In some cases you might find yourself having to use Apache and IIS locally to test our your sites. Unfortunately you can’t have both running at the same time as they both use port 80.
When you install the development tools for .Net applications, IIS is installed as well by default. After this or when ever you start up your machine IIS will automatically turn on, which will prevent you from running Apache. Read more
This is carrying on from a previous post Twitter Feed using JQuery JSON. Originally, I just used JQuery JSON method to query the Twitter API which got essential bits of a user profile and their time line. It only returned the latest ten results which is sufficient enough with the nature of twitter, tweets get old quick but some are worth checking again. With the Twitter API there is no guarantee to get the exact amount of tweets you requested. What is new in this revised edition of the twitter feed is it will now take the tweets and save a local version of it. This has plenty of benefits like quicker response when querying, view older posts, improved usability and you can customise the output how ever you like.
Here is a list of what is new:
Here is something that I recently found very useful. If you have a table in your MySQL database which you want to insert a record if it does not exist but update the row if it does. MySQL 5.x has a very neat piece of script to handle this with out any conditional statements.
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