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If you’re hosting your WordPress blog on a mod_rewrite-enabled Apache web server, you can use this feature to make your post URLs prettier.

By default, WordPress uses an ugly format like http://yoursite/?p=795 (this URL is for post #795, just in case you’re wondering). If your server has mod_rewrite enabled, you can also use more descriptive URLs as suggested by WordPress:

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Recently, a friend asked me, “Could I run a shop within WordPress?”

I’m sure that she’s not the only person who wondered about this. After looking around, I found one of the best tools to integrate an online shop with your WordPress blog: WP e-Commerce.

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The ShareThis plugin is probably among the most popular ones for WordPress. It can be seen literally everywhere! I got on the ShareThis bandwagon since version 1.4 was released. Although I love the idea behind ShareThis, there is one particular thing that I dislike about it.

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I’ve seen some PHP scripts that are distributed for free but with an illogical license. Let me show you of a sample license that in my opinion, makes absolutely no sense:

XXX is free software. This License grants you to use this software free of charge for as long as you wish. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license.

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I’ve been hunting for a nice PHP caching system to be implemented on my server. I’ve looked at APC and eAccelerator. Both looks like a mature and feasible caching system for PHP. I then compiled and installed them (one at a time of course) on the server and I was very surprised by the results!

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