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enabling CORS on Apache

Many people struggle to get CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) enabled on their site to allow transmission of JSON, XML, or some other sort of data from one script to another, running on different domains. Simply adding Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin “*” 

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essential and useful WordPress plugins I’ve tested and used

After installing and removing zillions of them, here are my faves: BJ Lazy Load Lazy loads images and other embedded media so that they are not sent to the client until the client scrolls near it. Saves bandwidth and makes

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firing background tasks in PHP

Background case madisonrightnow.com is a collection of near-real-time information about a metropolitan area. Traffic, weather, parking lot usage, and loads of web cam images are displayed on one page. Data come from a wide variety of sources: images come from

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user experience

Remember when designing anything: users will find the most efficient way to use your product, even if it’s not how you intended. Test your product by pretending you have no time to deal with it.

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SQL command reference

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comma separated list of United States counties

In case you need a complete CSV list of US counties for your next… killer app or whatever: united-states-counties.csv.zip

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