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While reading some forums this morning, I came upon an interesting question. Where is the category information stored in the WordPress database?

I opened up phpmyadmin, expecting to see a “categories” table. No dice. After a few minutes I figured it out – and I decided it might be a good idea to explain how the WordPress database is structured.
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Browsing through DZone, I stumbled on an interesting illustration – the Programmer’s Food Pyramid.

The Pyramid illustrates the different activities that someone generally engages in while learning to program. While looking at the pyramid, I thought, “Do I do all these things?”
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You know your site is finally getting around a bit when you start getting comments. Spam comments.

I started a (now defunct) website last year, powered by WordPress. It never got too popular, and in the beginning I was excited every time I got a “New Comment” or “New Trackback” e-mail. Then I realized they were mostly all spam.
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You may have stumbled upon the section on writing for Associated Content – for money.

But even if you’re not interested in being published on someone else’s site, AC can be a great tool for you as a webmaster. You can use it to get optimized backlinks and targeted traffic.
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In standard HTML, tooltips seem to be reserved for anchor tags – i.e. links. They get the all-powerful “title” attribute which is turned into a tooltip.

There are plenty of other times that you’d want to use a tooltip, though. If you’re wondering how, check out this previous post on how to create a custom tooltip with css.

Otherwise, read on for some thoughts on when to use these tooltips.
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The main two sites that I write at (besides my own) are Helium and Associated Content. Lately I’ve been looking around for other similar sites, so that I could test them out and review them.

The other day I came across something truly disturbing in the way of online writing. I stumbled on the website Senserely.

It was kind of like a train wreck – it was horrifying, but I had to keep looking around just to see if it could get any worse.
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