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NO MORE Internet Explorer 6!

Update: For a select few

IE6 is being phased out with a mandatory push from Microsoft, requiring all computers to upgrade to IE7.

The article from Microsoft mentions several ways you can disable the WGA-free update, so the war might not be over. But in my opinion, this is a major step forward.

This post is the third in a continuing series of DIY tutorials, which aims to make things as simple as possible.

The [Easy as Pie] series focuses on tasks that most people consider too challenging and presents it in a way that is easy (as pie!) to understand.

Introduction

In this post, you are going to have a fantastic time learning:

• How to create a MySQL Database
• How to create a table in a MySQL Database
• How to add data to a MySQL Database
• How to get data from a MySQL Database
• How to create a random quote generator

The good stuff

If you're like me, you learn really well from example. For this reason, I include the download for the random quote generator right here. Enjoy!

Download the Random Quote Generator source code

Let's get started!

It seems that using Alexa's redirect URL to game your rank is no longer an option.

UPDATE

On about 4:00PM on Thursday, January 10th, I clicked one of the comment author's names, which I assumed lead to their blog. Instead of their page, however, I got:

The requested URL /redirect was not found on this server.

I glanced at the address bar, and saw this:

http://redirect.Alexa.com/redirect?myblog.com

That's not good for business...