Category Archives: Web Development

Javascript in Spreadsheets? – Google Apps Script Does that

Far from being a google promoter, I do like this. Google Apps Script opens up google spreadsheets to scripting – Just like Macro’s etc in Excel, but with Javascript. This effectively opens up a world of online data processing and analysis that would have not been easily possible within a browser before hand, especially suiting [...]

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Multiple Wordpress blogs from 1 instance / 1 wordpress folder to maintain

Wordpress is a victim of its own success, but its no victim. It is huge. Millions upon millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs (like this one for example) to make money and to have their voice present on the internet. It has become a first stop for a huge host of people [...]

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Ebay Partner Network Xmas Bonus? – EPN Look after their affiliates

Those of you that make good money out of eBay probably noticed the downtime last month. For me it had an affect on my epn earnings for around 5 days. The problem (in my case at least) seemed to be with RSS feeds called from php (curl.) But it could simply have been a server [...]

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Auction 2 Post Recap

Its been a while since I posted my review of Auction 2 Post and I thought I would do a post with my results so far etc. Broadly speaking a2p has been a fairly successful venture, between 5-10 sites, all of which more than pay their way have brought more than 100% ROI on the [...]

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2015 – What will technology be in 2015?

I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine – around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future [...]

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Dreamweaver .Ste into Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

I have never personally used .ste files or indeed template (.dwt) files within dreamweaver, I never liked the system personally – but pulling .Ste and .dwt files into CS4 is as easy as any old version, you have got to hand it to Adobe, they keep true to old versions (dreamweaver got to 10 before [...]

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ASP/PHP Network Share browsing between Servers on IIS

Its always the simple things that take longer than expected, if you are trying to access a network share, say \\server1\netshare$ from some code on your webserver (say \\server2) – you would think this would be simple? If your on IIS you would be wrong, kind of. I think if you are on Apache this [...]

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WikiMedia Spam – Lock Media Wiki Permissions down

Using Media Wiki (wikiMedia) somewhere online to manage content? chance’s are you’ve had unwelcome guests spamming you to high heavens. By default permissions on wiki media are, well wiki-level, they provide access to everyone – that’s the point of wiki right? But if you want a private wiki (Media Wiki suggests itself that its not [...]

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ionCube on 1and1 shared hosting

…I needed to use ionCube for Auction 2 Post but it takes an odd combination of files to get it working so heres how to get ionCube loaders to work on 1 and 1 shared hosting (spoon fed):
1. Use getcwd to find the working directory (make a new .php file with two lines “echo getcwd().’<br [...]

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Auction 2 Post

The reason I am writing about this Wordpress plugin is long winded, but essentially a while back I wrote a website which featured a hand picked 3 best auctions in certain categories from ebay and posted them to a custom themed Wordpress blog, the idea being that people could see the 3 most expensive cars [...]

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