Archive for August, 2009
Owning your domain name
The importance of owning your own domain name as opposed to your web development company is simple to explain in one question:
Would you want them to have full ownership of your company name and logo?
It’s very common for web development companies to purchase and handle your domain name in their portfolio. While this is the [...]
Jolicloud Alpha 2 Review
In the near future many personal devices are going to be solely operating over the internet. Operating systems will soon only become internet browsers, as everything you require will be available online (an example would be using Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word, Gmail instead of Outlook). Even Microsoft is planning on releasing free online-only [...]
Read moreThe Truth About SEO
Search Engines have evolved to the point where they can now determine whether or not the information on the website is sound. Many SEO companies are still operating by rules and tricks used in the past, so I have constructed this 2009 guide to help you better understand search engines.
1. “Beware of SEOs that claim [...]
PHP APC for Windows Download
PECL 4 Win has been down for quite a while making the search for some PHP extensions unnecessarily difficult. I’m offering this permanent APC download for not only my records, but to help others searching for it. As of August 19th, 2009, 3.1.3 is the latest beta version, and 3.0.19 is the latest stable.
Download php_apc [...]
Wordpress & jQuery: “$ is not a function”
If you are trying to add your own jQuery code to Wordpress, and have had the error “$ is not a function” show up on Firebug, here is the fix:
Convert all dollar signs ($) to ‘jQuery’
The dollar sign is reserved in Wordpress for the Prototype library, which is why it errors out. For example, instead [...]
Notepad++ FTP Synchronize vs UAC
The issue I was having dealt with FTP Synchronize not opening any files beyond the root FTP folder. There were no error messages, and no indication other than the root files were opening in a folder in Program Files. UAC is blocking the creation of files within Program Files, so the solution is to change [...]
Read moreJcrop Large Image Previews
Jcrop is an excellent jQuery plugin developed by Deep Liquid. It is used to easily crop images on websites without having to use any photo editing software.
There is documentation on their website on how to use boxWidth and boxHeight to deal with large resolution pictures, however it does not tie together those methods with the [...]