When I came across Drew Wilson’s flashy JQuery Autosuggest plugin I happily downloaded the code and started using it within a recent project, but as I used it more and more I kept hitting a bug – don’t know if its just the version of JQuery I was tied to using or whether everyone using […]
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Fix/Hack to make AutoSuggest JQuery Plugin work
Also posted in Javascript Tagged autosuggest, client-side, hacks, JQuery, ui
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, PHP, Social Media, Web Development Tagged 1and1, facebook, facebook apps, fan gating, fan page, ssl
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, Projects, Social Media, Web Development, Wordpress Tagged Automated Editor, Small Nugget Projects
Namestation starts charging – Namestation.com review/alternatives
I remember it as MakeWords.com, a useful site which would usually suck hours of my life away showing me domain names I didn’t originally know I wanted/needed. It would usually come up with the results though, providing me with a decent domain for a new project or site. So when I wanted to dial in […]
Also posted in Business, Web Development
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, Projects, Search Engine Optimisation, Software, Technology, Web Development, Wordpress
Grab Tabs – Get chromium urls in a list
Long story short there is a bunch of extensions for chrome/chromium which provide you with session management and tab control but frankly none of them do exactly what I wanted so I have fudged a solution by using session manager and writing a 5 minute extension: Grab Tabs. Somehow it seemed easier to write an […]
Also posted in Code, Javascript
Filter bubbles – Will tomorrow see the transparent equation of you?
A good ted talk from Eli Pariser on what he calls Filter Bubbles: He has presented on a growing phenomena which we should all be more aware of, the algorithmic manipulation of digital feeds of information, our “personal web” that I would suggest the majority is oblivious to. Like it or hate it our new […]
Also posted in Technology
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 […]
Also posted in Business, C#, Ideas, Looking Back, Looking Forward, Music, PHP, Projects, SQL Server, Technology, Web Development, WoodyLabs Tagged Emancipator, Evernote, Harpers Magazine, M. Scott Peck, Music, Nepal, reddit, Sharepoint, Thailand, Travelling
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