Q: How do I use and install PHP libraries with MAMP? A: Let’s assume that you want to use the PHP library LIB_http.php (which is used in the examples presented in Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL by Michael Schrenk). Navigate to /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/extensions/ Copy and paste LIB_http.php into [...]
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Demonstrations of three essential bodyweight exercises on Power-Fitness site
In a recent post I discussed Hindu pushups and bodyweight exercises as a way of achieving functional strength-endurance. While looking for demonstrations of the proper form for the “Royal Court” exercises as taught by Matt Furey in his book Combat Conditioning: Functional Exercises for Fitness and Combat Sports, I came across the following site: http://www.power-fitness.info [...]
When the world is getting you down and you don’t know what else to do… Mahna Mahna!
One day last year, when I was feeling a little blue and stressed out, I got a good piece of advice from someone I care about. And it was this: See? Don’t you feel better? If you’d like to learn more about this Muppet skit, check out the Muppet Wiki page for Mahna Mahna. Wikipedia [...]
Promotion Using Unconventional Free Tools: The Case of VeryRelated.com
There are many free promotional opportunities out there that businesses and individuals can use to their benefit. Sometimes these promotional opportunities appear in some unexpected places. Here I will discuss VeryRelated.com, a mind-map tool for finding related key words built by Geoff Peters and Sigal Blay. When you first come to the site, you can [...]
Techniques of Highly Productive People: Daily and Weekly Schedules
A simple productivity technique used by many highly productive and successful people is the daily and weekly schedule. For example, Bob Bly, a well known & highly successful copywriter, mentions how powerful scheduling your time is in his book 101 Ways to make Every Second Count. Taking the effort to schedule your time helps you [...]
Using Google as a Dictionary
Google (www.google.com) has a nice feature that may help save you time from thumbing through a print dictionary or searching a dictionary site when looking for the meaning of words. If you use a browser like Firefox extensively at work, the Google search box is right at hand. Simply type in define: [your_word] and search. [...]
