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Archive for September, 2007

Never write an email form report from scratch again!

Sep
28
2007

If you’re a programmer you probably get the request to create a form that sends an email somewhere. Writing forms is probably the task I hate doing the most because it can be so tedious. There’s the initial form creation, the validation, and finally the email template to stick the data into and [...]


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Posted in: Announcements, MODx

The Controversy Continues: Fixed Width or Fluid Design

Sep
26
2007

Designus Fixedwithidus: A web design that has a standard and measurable width, where the content is laid out in a fixed state, and does not change orientation when resizing the browser window.
Designus Fluidious: Sometimes called a 100% width design, full width design, variable width design, etc, this web design does not have a standard measurable [...]


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Posted in: Design

I Don’t Like Macs and They Don’t Like Me

Sep
25
2007

Ever get the feeling that an operating system just has it out for you? Every time I use a mac I just think that the thing is trying to butt heads with me. Macs also have a tendency to burn up around me. It’s true, in the past month, 3 mac laptops at [...]


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Posted in: General

Adsense just downright sucks!

Sep
24
2007

That’s right, Adsense sucks — at least it does on this blog anyway. I’m sure that others are doing very well with it, but on this blog, the ads are not targeted very well, and no one clicks on them. I’m thinking that the readers of this blog are like me and are [...]


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Posted in: Marketing

Best Interview Ever: Shoemoney and John Reese

Sep
21
2007

If you haven’t seen/heard this interview yet, you have to check it out. This is definitely the best Shoemoney interview out there and possibly the best interview about making money online that I’ve ever heard. It’s really making me do some deep thinking about what my goals for this site are and if [...]


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Posted in: General

PHP Command Line Interface (CLI) Tips

Sep
18
2007

I’ve been creating a php application that runs from the command line and I have a few tips that I’ve learned from my adventures.

If you’ve installed php before, and reinstall it, make sure what version of php you are using from the command line by checking out your environment variables in windows. This happened [...]


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Posted in: Programming

Screen Scraping: How to Screen Scrape a Website with PHP and cURL

Sep
17
2007

Screen scraping has been around on the internet since people could code on it, and there are dozens of resources out there to figure out how to do it (google php screen scrape to see what I mean). I want to touch on some things that I’ve figured out while scraping some screens. [...]


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Posted in: Programming

Links from the Trenches #6

Sep
14
2007

How Make Money On A Site With A Small Budget
Shoemoney had an awesome post this week on how to advertise on a website with a low budget. A reader of the blog posed this question to him in his QA post last week, and he answered the question by delving into how to use [...]


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Posted in: General

Work Some Database Magic with DBDesigner 4

Sep
13
2007

I wish I had found DBDesigner 4 a long time ago, but it works out that I just found it last week. Have you ever come across a program where you instantly realize that you know it is going to be useful, and it feels like it was written with your ideas in mind. [...]


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Posted in: Programming

Auto Site Start MODx Resource Install Script

Sep
12
2007

A while back I posted an sql install script that I use for MODx that I called ResourceInstaller. My plans of creating a module based around this script haven’t materialized into anything yet, but the script has evolved a bit. I’ve renamed the sql script to AutoSiteStart because there was another project named [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Programming

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