I have a new project in the works and I thought it about time to get a verioning setup working beyond locally, I don’t want to use a PaaS (like Cloud control) though for this one as its Top Secret (for now.) Yeah Yeah I know, shared web hosting, 1and1 – not so secret eh? [...]
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1and1 Web Hosting & Git – Installing it for singular dev
Also posted in Code, Snippets, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged 1and1, ghetto first version, git, ssh
Recent Projects, Top Freelancer People Per Hour
It was a busy November, but it paid off – completed a good few projects for some great clients, and whats more I won no# 1 Top Freelancer @ people per hour! You can read more about some of my recent projects here, although there’s only a few case studies up, the most public of [...]
Also posted in Looking Back, PHP, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged app, cloud, freelance, freelancing, people per hour
Did you know: Facebook short url’s already kinda exist
As a side note: facebook shorturls, or at least abreviated urls exist. We all know about fb.me, but fb.com works too…. Random occurance: Was saving down facebook data into a database from the graph api, wanted to save the urls in a mixed url table but didn’t want to bother saving the whole http://www.facebook.com every [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged dataspace savings, facebook, facebook shorturl, random occurance, shorturl
Facebook time in php – Facebook uses GMT not PDT/PST?
I don’t know whether its purely related to my location when I am calling facebooks’ graph API or what, but all the talk about what timestamps facebooks API returns seems to be wrong. Perhaps they’ve changed something, perhaps they are re-adjusting them just for me. If its the latter I wonder why they are giving me GMT [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, PHP, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Illustrator
Facebook Fan Page Branding Template – Creating a facebook fanpage branding with Adobe Illustrator As I have been dabbling with facebook fan pages I thought I would share a few of the take-away’s, in this case purely to do with the branding of your facebook page, increasingly an important outward factor in all web developments [...]
Also posted in Facebook Pages, Social Media, Web Development Tagged adobe, branding, facebook, fan page, illustrator
Remove unwanted eBay strings from A2P [Auction2post] posts with Automated Editor
Free rules file with this post! Do you use Auction2Post [A2P]? If you don’t its a wordpress plugin which automatically implants listings from ebay as wordpress posts, including affiliate links through the ebay partner network from which you earn a commission. Its quite useful. Read my post about it here. Anyhow if you don’t use the [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, PHP, Search Engine Optimisation, Snippets, Software, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged Auction2Post, Automated Editor
Automated Editor Released!
A nice small chunk of a project, Automated Editor is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automate some of the post editing process. Written to be lightweight and flexible it can do a lot with a little input. The plugin replaces a previous script/small app I had previously commissioned to offer automatic string replacement/removal [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Business, PHP, Social Media, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
Hackers wrecking your shared host account? Check your Website Portfolio Integrity
10 days of perpetual issues with hackers. 10 DAYS. 100+ sites bombed randomly between every 5 minutes and 5 hours and that’s only after proper detection, who knows how far it had gone before. But from the relentless irritation some positives developed, if you are in the (precarious) position of hosting LOTS of websites on [...]
Also posted in ASP.Net, C#, Ideas, PHP, Search Engine Optimisation, Software, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress
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