Server side paging using Common Table Expressions: If you're not into under-the-hood technobabble: do yourself a big favor and skip this post. Yesterday I've rewritten the query for fetching blog posts from the back-end database. Not only I wanted it to be cleaner written and faster, but my pal and I were also in desperate need of 'Previous entries' - 'Next entries' buttons at the bottom of the page (this is called paging). The addition of this tiny feature would allow us to reduce the number of posts shown on ...

Embedding YouTube Videos as valid XHTML: On special request :-), I adapted the blog's CMS so that YouTube-video's can now easily be embedded, and this in an XHTML compliant way. Thanks to an article I've found here , this was a piece of cake. Because I'm a fan of the Futurama series and got fascinated by the Songvid-phenomenon on YouTube, I'll leave the video I u...