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Akismet is the best Worpress plugin. At least from my point of view.

I resist using CAPTCHAs whenever I can to offer my visitors the best user-experience. Who likes to comment a post when you additionally have to decipher symbols on an image only to type them into a textbox?

For this reason I activated Akismet on all of my blogs. Now it quietly checks every comment and removes it, if it is detected as spam.

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Recently SOAP kept shouting “Procedure ‘foo’ not present in …” at me.

I assumed the mistake in my WSDL file, since I knew the function “foo” existed.

If you get the “Procedure ‘foo’ not present”-error, too you either:

• forgot to add the procedure “foo” to your SOAP server implementation, or
• you are using a cached version of your WSDL file at the server side.

I discovered that sometimes a cached WSDL file is used, although you are using this code:
ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", "0");
If you aren’t sure whether you are using a cached version or not, you can either

• reboot the server to clean the cache, or
• delete all files in /tmp/ starting with “wsdl-” (rm /tmp/wsdl-*)

If not a cached WSDL file is causing the problem, you should check if you really have a function “foo” in your implementation.

Debugging SOAP in PHP can be really time intensive.

I found the best practice debugging SOAP is using a log file. I use this code to catch exceptions in the server implementation:

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How do you get links from all over the blogosphere quickly?

You create a famous wordpress plugin and implement a backdoor to inject your own links.

Josh, from Josh Team and Eli, from Blue Hat SEO did this with his Wordpress plugin “PingCrawl“.

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I found the following story somewhere on the Internet. I couldn’t find the original author, so I’m republishing it here for your entertainment. Enjoy!

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When I’m tired I tend to cross read blog posts in my feedreader. This way I just found an interesting screencast in Chris Hartjes’ blog which I thought I should mention here: 6 Steps to a perfect deployment.

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Are you into web design?

Regardless if you are just creating small templates for your blogs or if you already design websites for clients – You will benefit from Sitepoints free Photoshop book!

Download the PDF “The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques” right now!

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Don’t believe everything written in a fortune cookie!

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Those, who read my twitter feed know it already: I’ve won a Poker Chip Set some days ago. It was pure luck that I got the answer first.

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I was really stunned when I discovered how cheap it is to send 10 million spam mails a day. You have to pay 600$ and get 10 Million spam-mails to their receivers. Imagine what you would make if one of 1000 receivers would buy your “cheap Viagra generic”. If you would only earn 1$ per sale you would make 9400$ in profit!

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