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Welcome to the Freelock Knowledge Base!

This is a collection of technical notes, tips, and tricks related to Freelock Computing's services and various open source projects. We document what sorts of things we do to get software to work, and keep it here for our benefit, but also for yours.

1 Website Hosting
2 Domain Names
3 Email
- 3.1 Standard options
- 3.2 Email Client Setup
4 overview
5 AJAX/CSS/Javascript
6 Google Maps API
7 PEAR Image_Graph
8 SEO
9 Subversion
10 Mysql

[edit] Website Hosting

[edit] Domain Names

[edit] Email

IMAP offers significant benefits over POP. The main one is that emails are stored on the server, allowing synchronization between your devices. We use IMAP servers for email.

[edit] Standard options

[edit] Email Client Setup

Microsoft email clients will need some extra configuration because they don't behave according to standards, Here's how:

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[edit] AJAX/CSS/Javascript

Great IBM article on cross-platform scripting.

We're starting to play around with this a lot. First a reference to a hidden gotcha: memory leaks.

Get Drip here: http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/05/drip-ie-leak-detector.html. This is a memory leak detector for IE.

Ajax and Rails: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html

New on the scene from Google: Google Sitemaps https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Ajax for PHP Developers: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kassemi20050613.php3

Ajax history: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-rad2/?ca=dgr-lnxw02AjaxAndPHP

Ajax patterns
Ajax blog
Google Suggest Dissected and the script.
Jon Udell on Tibco toolkit
Simple Ajax Code Kit (SACK), by Word Press developer. Follow links for plugins/toolkit. We're using this toolkit for its nice simple management of the XmlHttpRequest object.