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 [...]
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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, Projects, Social Media, Web Development Tagged facebook, facebook apps, facebook pages, facebook time, timezones
Hosting facebook Apps/Applications/iFrame Pages on 1and1 (SSL)
For those who run facebook fan pages you will likely know about fan gating and the importance of adding your own content to your facebook fanpage. This used to be done with the facebook static fbml app but that’s really the old way, looking forward the best way is to make its own specific app. [...]
Also posted in Facebook Graph API, Facebook Pages, Social Media, Web Development, Web Technology Tagged 1and1, facebook, facebook apps, fan gating, fan page, ssl
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, Projects, 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, Projects, Social Media, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
get_tag_name function for wordpress
get_cat_name is a simple useful function to get the category name from its id in wordpress, there isn’t one for tag (and you cant use the same one…) so here’s I adapted it for tags. TBH its super lazy to be using this, but meh. Uses get_term. I am writing Automated Editor, a wordpress plugin [...]
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, Projects, Search Engine Optimisation, Software, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress
Forget Inertia – A new era.
There is by far enough written words about the freedom and positives of leaving ones established job, for better or for worse I think it is the right way forward for me, now. I have had a long list of things to post about, technology thoughts and projects completed; now thankfully I have the control [...]
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