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SOPA Protest Today

seangw — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:09:58 +0000

It seems like quite a number of sites have joined in the SOPA protest. Some interesting one’s that I’ve seen have been: Google Given their high profile, I was happy to see the logo was blacked out today in protest of SOPA. Ars Technica I like the way they blended a protest, with staying functional. [...]

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WordPress 3.2 Gershwin Released – new interface, and much more

seangw — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:10:33 +0000

While we were all celebrating July 4th, WordPress 3.2 was released. The purpose of the release seems to be in streamlining the administrative control panel for both speed and ease of use. Included in major release, are the following: Heavily improved admin interface IE6 Support dropped (yay, don’t worry, this is only for the admin, [...]

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Facebook Like Button: It says “likes http://example.com/page/to/like on example.com”

seangw — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:04:57 +0000

If you’re implementing a Facebook Like Button, and copied the code from the Like Button page to paste generically into a template, then you may have a problem. Using the iFrame code, by default, you will end up liking the same page that hundreds of thousands of others have liked, an example button. You need [...]

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Hosting: How to pick a WordPress Host

seangw — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:02:36 +0000

WordPress is a popular CMS platform (and has evolved from a purely blogging platform). If you have virtually no technical knowledge at all, start off very basic with a WordPress.com account. There are a number of things to consider. This article will cover: What you need for WordPress hosting? What will WordPress hosting cost? What [...]

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PHP Email – A Beginners Guide

seangw — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:26:10 +0000

Saw a nicely done introduction tutorial to sending email with PHP: PHP has a very simple mail function which is used very often for basic text mail messages. What if you need to attach files or if you need to send your e-mail messages via SMTP? Than it’s time to use a more advanced script. This [...]

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How web developers protect PHP sites from SQL injection attacks

seangw — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:05:11 +0000

Web developers are responsible for writing websites that work today, but also years or even decades from now (though I would argue the average website shouldn’t be left alone for a decade). It can be difficult to protect a website against all future attacks. There is one big one we all have to be prepared [...]

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Formatting Stock Data from Yahoo Finance

seangw — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:41:56 +0000

Yesterday I was playing with manipulating information pulled from stocks. I ended up pulling data from Yahoo Finance, because it is just so easy to do in PHP. I ran into a problem, how would I pull all the data I needed? I found very little documentation online, it seems that pulling data from Yahoo [...]

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NETTUTS: 5 Helpful Tips for Creating Secure PHP Applications

seangw — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:03 +0000

NETTUTS posted an article, 5 Helpful Tips for Creating Secure PHP Applications. Frequently PHP sites have security issues, as some things make sense but are just not fully thought out. When doing web development, it’s nice to program for the ideal input, but we also have to assume all other possible input. Here’s [...]

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Favorite Software for Web Development

seangw — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:44:01 +0000

Sometimes when you start out doing something on computers, it seems so hard until you get the tools that everyone else uses. In this post I’m asking everyone else for feedback, what do you like to use? Go ahead and comment it in there, I’ll add it to the article as I see em. Below [...]

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Protect Client Search Engine Placement with 301 Redirects

seangw — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:50:17 +0000

This is a big win for us web developers. It helps maintain all the SEO work that has gone into a site, and lets us move site architecture around with minimal impact. Many times I run across companies whose website just went from ASP/CFM/JSP/PHP/CGI/HTML/HTM to ASP/CFM/JSP/PHP/CGI/HTML/HTM. Fill in the blank, migrating from one platform to [...]

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