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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2015 – What will technology be in 2015?
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Ideas, Looking Back, Looking Forward, Music, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, Technology, Web Technology, WoodyLabs Tagged Music, Pico Projectors, Sci-Fi
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 […]
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 […]
Also posted in PHP Tagged 1and1, Auction2Post
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 […]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Wordpress Tagged Auction2Post, ebay partner network
Dual Screen Web Development
I’ve had dual monitors for about 8 months now and I have to say its well worth the money. At the office I also have tri screen Dell’s although these arent as big as my dual 22’s which I would say is pretty perfect for me. They offer more space than a 30inch apple screen […]
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Browser Compatibility
Browser Compatibility has to be the most boring part of web development. You can build a fantastic functioning epic web based gui, doing the usual code, test, refine, retest cycle to master your code but if your “test” step doesn’t cover the jungle of browser’s out there it can all fall down when opened elsewhere. […]
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