WebDev
URL shortening
Long URLs don’t play nicely if you’re character-limited, e.g. when posting to twitter, or maybe, including a link in an email or when leaving a comment on a blog or forum. Therefore, the use of URL shortening services, which, for example, can turn http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TinyURL&diff=283621022&oldid=283308287into http://tinyurl.com/mmw6lb are very useful. So, I decided to set-up and host [...]
How to take screen shots on an iPhone 3G
How to take screen shots on an iPhone 3G, originally uploaded by James Bliss. Hold down the HOME button and then press the SLEEP/WAKE button on the top right of your phone.
Google Sites
Spotted on vowe.net … there’s a new addition to the Google Apps Suite.
How to display tags in WordPress 2.3
WordPress 2.3 allows you to tag posts. In the theme I use, to display the tags on your blog’s post you need to edit your ‘single.php’ file. Log in to your WordPress dashboard then select Presentation > Theme Editor Select the ‘single.php’ file from the right-hand sidebar. Locate the following line of code (it’s located [...]
How to set up Feedburner email subscriptions in WP Premium
Many thanks to Jeff Story for his useful instructions on how to set up FeedBurner email subscriptions in WP Premium thus saving me a greal deal of time trying to figure it out. Nice one Jeff.
Tags vs. Categories in WordPress 2.3
Now that I’ve gone all ‘social’ and decided to use del.icio.us tagging I thought my blog categories could do with an overhaul. Coincidently, I’ve just updated my WordPress install to 2.3 and now there’s a ‘tag’ field. A search on the wordpress.org forums throws up some useful information about the differences between tags and categories [...]
New blog theme
I’ve changed my WordPress theme. I’m using a (slightly tweaked) theme called WP Bliss (no relation) – cssace.com/free-wp-premium-theme-is-here/. More tweaks on the way when I have time.
Now iPhone and iPod touch compatible
The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme from ContentRobot is now implemented on my blog. If you view the blog on an iPhone and iPod touch you’ll get the theme depicted below.
A must-read for web developers
Wise words from Josiah Cole on 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website. Well worth reading whether you’re an occasional blogger or an experienced web developer.
XAMPP
Developing web sites is fun (well, it can be). Setting up a development environment, however, is not always a fun thing to do. It’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl and getting all this to work together is not for [...]
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