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Archive for January, 2008

How To Use a MODx Plugin to Cache Snippets

Jan
28
2008

I don’t want to take credit for this, but I definitely wanted to blog about it because I think it is a big deal. In a forum post I made on modxcms.com, ganeshXL came up with an awesome way to cache snippet output with a MODx plugin. Here is what ganeshXL wrote:

create a [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Programming

Three Free Browser Compatibility Screenshot Tools

Jan
26
2008

I was in need of doing some browser testing tonight and I thought I’d share the free sites that can be used for checking your web designs across multiple browsers and platforms.
browsershots.org
This is definitely the coolest free browser testing tool. There are lots of browsers and platforms (mostly Unix based) to choose from and [...]


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Posted in: Design

New Tool – CSS Formatter and Optimizer

Jan
15
2008

A while back I wrote a post linking to a css formatter and optimizer, not knowing then that it was a piece of open source code. When I figured that out I thought it would be a great idea to put it up on DEVTRENCH. I really love this code since it makes [...]


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Posted in: Announcements

Automation Tip: How To Auto Set Copyright Years*

Jan
11
2008

Now that it’s January 2008 some of my clients are noticing that the year in their copyright statements don’t reflect 2008. Now, I always set this to drop in a dynamic value, but that wasn’t the case before I was hired. This is such an easy thing to set up when you are developing [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Programming

HTML2PS and HTML2PDF – Best HTML to PDF Converter

Jan
9
2008

I’ve been doing a project lately that requires HTML2PDF generation and I was getting quite depressed at the 2 available options I’d found to do it with PHP: dompdf and html2fpdf. After trying to get them to work with the html template I set up I quickly realized that they just weren’t going to [...]


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Posted in: Programming

Missing inventory.overture.com? Try WordTracker’s FREE keyword suggestion tool.

Jan
7
2008

I used to use inventory.overture.com for all of my keyword research but lately the service always times out for me. It is either dead, unsupported, or just blasted by so many requests that it can’t handle it.
Today I found that WordTracker has a free keyword suggestion tool that works pretty similar to [...]


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Posted in: Marketing

How To Make Update Statements From phpMyAdmin

Jan
4
2008

I figured out this cool trick today: how to make update statements straight from phpMyAdmin. The normal way I go about this is either to write them using php or to do them using regular expressions in Notepad++. However, both of those can be kind of time consuming.
Today I needed to update [...]


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Posted in: Programming

Top Commentators Beat the Crap out of Do Follow

Jan
3
2008

Yeah, I couldn’t believe it either. I got on my blog today and noticed the Do Follow plugin was in serious bad shape. As I looked around, I caught the new kid on the block, Show Top Commentators, red handed…literally…bloody knuckels and all. Since Do Follow was obviously down for the count, and [...]


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Posted in: Announcements

Remember to Search for Promo Codes

Jan
2
2008

I figured out a little trick to save some cash when buying things like domain names, hosting, printing, dinner plates, etc on the internet and wanted to share it. Any time you buy something online and see a coupon code input field when you are checking out, make sure you do a Google search [...]


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Posted in: General