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updated the blog with new features and a new look
The blog needed a little love and was time for a makeover. I wanted to change up the theme and add a few features. I found a great article on building link love through creating “ultimate lists of …..” and one of the examples was a smashingmagazine.com article on 83 wordpress themes you probably never seen. #1 on the themes list was this theme, redoable. I have to say,...
Read MoreWordPress Displaying Posts Multiple Times
Using WordPress, I like to tag my posts in multiple categories to help with SEO exposure. However, after upgrading to 2.1 I found that my posts were showing up multiple times on the index, once for each category they were in. Turns out the reason for this was that I was using Category Visibility-RH. This plugin alters the visibility settings for different categories. I have my delicious...
Read MoreA blast from the past
Several years ago I created the little graphic ufo you see here. It’s actually a file from coreldraw like 2.0 or so. I took the image, put a little colored blur on the lights, made them rotate with using gifanimator and then published it on my site. A couple years ago I saw the image posted on someone’s website. Turns out they purchased it on a shareware images cd from a computer...
Read MorePHP 5.2.1 for Windows Lives
Yes, it’s official, PHP 5.2.1 is now available for download as per this article at mvolo.com. What’s so exciting about 5.2.1? Performance, BABY! Microsoft has been working with Zend to make PHP “rock solid” on Windows as well as working on a new FastCGI implementation. From Mike’s blog: You will also notice that the PHP 5.2.1 release contains an additional...
Read MoreASP.NET Code Camp Sponsorship
Today, Applied Innovations sponsored the ASP.NET developer code camp as a way to give back to the developer community. Organized by the FlaDotNet Usergroup, a local ASP.NET users group. Turn out for the code camp was amazing with almost 600 developers showing up to share information on topics such as: ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0, The new Lego Mindstorm and .Net Robotics...
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