Online CSS Formatter: This CSS formatting tool tops the list of Trench Links this week because I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. This tool will format your css for readability or compression and has lots more options than just that. This is a must see for people who [...]

I don’t think it can be stressed enough how important social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, etc are when trying to get traffic to a new web site or blog. I just wanted to post some of the things I’ve been figuring out after hearing this advice from John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker.

Posting [...]

I’ve been reading Shoemoney.com for the past week and I’m kind of embarrassed to say I’m obsessed. Jeremy seems like a cool midwest guy, something I can relate to (we both live in Nebraska, woohoo). It feels like I have a lot of catching up to do reading wise and I wanted to read [...]

Well, I finally made it to the Top Commentators list on JohnChow dot com a few days ago. The biggest plus so far has been that my blog on Technorati now has an Authority of 1. I know this probably sounds pathetic, especially since my current rating is 3,897,068, but hey, I know [...]

Ok everyone, its time for a new segment on this blog: Links from the Trenches. I thought it would be helpful for me to recap some sites I’ve been surfing during the week that reflect the DEVTRENCH MO. This is going to be a regular weekly think that I’m going to do to [...]

This is an annoying error that you can get in MODx when uploading new files via the FCK Image Browser, and I’ve only ever seen it in the Internet Explorer browser. The fix for it is quite simple though…

Open manager/media/browser/mcpuk/connectors/php/Commands/GetFileUploadProgress.php
After //Progresshandler not specified, return generic response (mine is line 46) insert:
header (“content-type: text/xml”);
echo “< [...]

It’s Free!
It’s got an awesome desktop client for Windows, that sits in the taskbar
It checks my feeds every minute.
It alerts me with a taskbar popup when the feeds change
I can read the feed straight from the popup with images and everything
The interface is nice looking
The online beta interface uses AJAX – and it works well
It [...]

I just wanted to make a quick strategy update:

Design changes to the main content area and sidebar

Adding Top Commentators to the sidebar
This is still to do. Will probably get done this week.

Adding MyBlogLog to the sidebar Done

Adding a rating system for posts
The rating system code I’m using doesn’t seem to work with this version [...]

I’m releasing the first version of my new Meta Description Snippet for MODx tonight: DynamicDescription. I got this idea from the All-in-one SEO plugin for WordPress that creates a dynamic meta description for your blog posts. I just thought this would be a great addition to MODx since this is one of the [...]

Man, I had a rough debugging day. A client of mine called with a site down and my day pretty much sucked from there. I posted this on the MODx forums, but the problem is more MySQL related so I’ll repost it here too:
“I got a call from my client saying that their [...]