I was struggling for a bit on languages, which one to use, there are so many, do I use PHP, Ruby, Groovy, Python, or Jython or JRuby. I have settled on them let me summarize:

PHP - All my web programming will be in this language and my own custom framework.
Java - All my AI & [...]

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Being a web person I was so use to getting parameters from the URL in Java via the request.getParameter() method. I have found it really cool to use the same functionality in JavaScript and PHP.
Here is a JavaScript function:
function getParameter(name){
var out = “”;
var href = window.location.href;
if ( href.indexOf(”?”) > -1 ) {
var qs = [...]

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I used this for spidering my site.
function get_links($url) {
$req = new httprequest();
$html = $req->get($url);
$regex = ‘/mhref/m’;
$preg = ‘/<a href=”([^0-9].+?)”/’; // 1 or more
$preg = ‘/<a href=”([^0-9].*?)”/’; // 0 or more
$urls = array ();
preg_match_all($preg, $html, $urls);
$count = 0;
foreach ($urls as $url => $links) {
if ($count == 1) {
foreach ($links as $link) {
echo “link-> ” . $link [...]

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I decided to write a class to manage office documents with PHP.
Word:

function write_word() {
$word = new COM(”word.application”);
$word->Visible = 0;
$word->Documents->Add();
$word->Selection->PageSetup->LeftMargin = ‘2″‘;
$word->Selection->PageSetup->RightMargin = ‘2″‘;

//Setup the font
$word->Selection->Font->Name = ‘Verdana’;
$word->Selection->Font->Size = 8;

//Write some text
$word->Selection->TypeText(”This is a test document”);
//Insert an image
$word->Selection->InlineShapes->addPicture(”C:\\temp\\test.png”);

//Save the document [...]

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One thing I found useful when searching on keywords for SEO was to Google the keywords I wanted to “own”, then grab all the top 10 results from Google. Then I would go to the site and “View Source” to see what keywords they were using and then would manually go back and review [...]

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This is a class very close to the Ruby version to get text.

<?php
class httprequest {

function httprequest() {
}

function get($url) {
if (substr($url,0,7) != “http://”){
$url = ‘http://’.$url;
}
$html = implode(”, file($url));
return $html;
}

function post() {

}

}
?>

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