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New Design, New WordPress, First Ajax, First Scriptaculous
February 26th, 2006 at 1:45am | 9 CommentsPhewf! What a friggin overhaul! I was getting very bored with the old site and had been squatting on a new design idea for a while, so I finally gave in and wrote my own WordPress theme. A few months ago, I was very much inspired by Scott Schiller’s work (I even borrowed some of ... read more »
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Pasting Multiline URLs into Firefox
January 26th, 2006 at 11:53am | No CommentsEvery day I get e-mails with long URLs that are split onto multiple lines and I have to reconstruct the damn URL by copying and pasting every damn line one at a time into the location bar of my browser. Well today I had enough, and as always I turned to my good friend Google ... read more »
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Upgraded to WordPress 2
January 18th, 2006 at 9:37pm | 2 CommentsAbout 2 weeks ago I upgraded to WordPress 2 and I’ve been loving it. The new AJAX-powered features admin interface and WYSIWYG editor are fantastic and definitely make the blogging experience more enjoyable. I am actually surprised at how quickly the WordPress developers have come out with an AJAX implementation. Of all the PHP software ... read more »
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Creative can go to hell
December 4th, 2005 at 6:49am | 2 CommentsI’m still getting my computer back to the way it was, having formatted about a week ago as per my annual cleansing. Well, actually I broke Windows XP by attempting to install SP2 and had to install a fresh copy. In any case, formatting went fine and everything was installing fine until it came to ... read more »
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Refocus on functionality and usability
November 27th, 2005 at 10:31pm | No CommentsFew would debate that Ajax is a major advancement in web development. One that has the potential to take even more applications off the desktop and into the browser. However, with this exciting new approach to web development, it is even more important than ever to refocus on the functionality and usability. Even with special ... read more »
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Performance problems with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
November 26th, 2005 at 6:41pm | 3 CommentsI was having some huge performance problems playing Call of Duty 2 and Age of Empires III with my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I downloaded the latest drivers, had the latest version of DirectX, and had everything turned off on my machine (Virus Scan, Datakeeper, etc). Not only was it bad performance, but often the ... read more »
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TreeView 2.0 Released
November 21st, 2005 at 8:56pm | 4 CommentsClick here for the demo. About a week ago I released version 2.0 of TreeView, a PHP class for adding expandable tree controls to web applications. This is actually a big milestone toward my goal of building Ajax support. The major new features in TreeView 2.0 are: Client-side mode I coded the Javascript to animate ... read more »
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w.bloggar – a simple and free desktop blog publisher for Windows
November 10th, 2005 at 11:36pm | 6 CommentsI’ve finally grown too frustrated writting blog posts within WordPress. As with most browser-based editing, there is just a huge lack of editing features. With w.bloggar you get syntax highlighting, instant preview, find and replace, spell checking, and my favorite, file and image uploads. You can post to many blogging platforms including Blogger.com and WordPress. ... read more »
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10 tips to better manage your e-mail
September 19th, 2005 at 1:58pm | No CommentsThis is not just another article about combating SPAM. Although there are some pointers to reduce your SPAM, this article focuses mostly on taking advantage of e-mail features that you likely have but don’t know about. I often hear people complaining about getting unwanted e-mail from their friends, family, co-workers, etc. I have a hard ... read more »