PHP Development
Top 10 Free Unconventional iPhone Applications
While it is a widely accepted fact that iPhone owners are smarter and more beautiful than commoners, I have begun to see a lack of creativity amongst my brethren. In the last few weeks, I have seen list after list of “Top X iPhone Applications,” or “Mr. IThinkImSoImportant’s Prefered iPhone Apps.” While these lists are [...]
Our VoiceTales Beta Has Launched
Some of you know I been working on a project for quite some time. VoiceTales is an online voice recording service targeted at the average user . The goal of VoiceTales is to make voice recording, storytelling, and podcasting easy for the general public. Don’t have a microphone? That’s ok, VoiceTales uses the telephone to [...]
PHP Remove Non ASCII Characters from a String
I hate the stupid odd characters that sometimes seem to magically appear from nowhere in text. Some call the odd characters, some call them special characters, I call them non ASCII characters but whatever you call them they are inconvenient. Often they come along with text pasted into a content management system from Microsoft Word. [...]
SPAW Editor Fixes for Safari and CodeIgniter
I don’t know how many of you web developers use WYSIWYG editors in your coding. I personally use them quite often to allow customers to manage their online content. I have tried just about every one available both paid and free. So far my favorite is SPAW Editor. (Note I always use the SPAW lite [...]
It Takes Lots of Water and Steroids to Grow a Web Developer
I had a conversation with a programmer friend yesterday morning that got me thinking about what it takes to be a successful programmer. Programming, whether it be for the web or software, is a unique and difficult business. The tough thing about being a programmer is that it is impossible to know everything you will [...]
ASP is Dead – Microsoft Slit ASP’s Throat and Left it to Bleed Out… Stop Trying to Save it.
Note: To preface this article, if you disagree with me I would love to hear your opinion, please leave me a comment with your thoughts on the topic. ASP is dead. I think that all developers currently developing in classic ASP should move to ASP.NET or another language like PHP or JSP. If that isn’t [...]
Design of a Website Effects How Children Process Information
Sorry to those of you who read my blog regularly each morning, some extenuating circumstances kept me making my usual morning post. I know how frustrating it is when my paperboy doesn’t get my paper to my house prior to Cheerios time so I am sure all of you loyal fans were distraught. Moving on [...]
Extend and Enhance your WordPress
WordPress is a fantastic blogging engine and many of my visitors are WordPress users and fans. Today I thought I would spend a little time cataloging some of my favorite posts on using and extending WordPress. Below are 7 posts you can use to help get the most out of your WordPress installation. 10 Killer [...]
How to do a Local Site Search Using Google Ajax Search API
It has been awhile since I have put up a tutorial. Today I am going to give a quick overview of using the Google Ajax Search API to do a local site search (It is much easier than it looks). I hadn’t really played with the Google Search API until yesterday but it is pretty [...]
LinkTogether – A Community for Web Designers
First, I would like to welcome all my new subscribers. I have been getting an abnormally large amount of traffic the last few days and I have also seen a big increase in RSS subscriptions so if you’re new around here, welcome! Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web [...]