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4 CSS Tools to make your life easier. 2 Jun 2013 | 04:05 am
Being a web coder, one of the challenges I like to set myself is to see how much of the design stuff on a web page I can do in code. Here are some of the tools I use to Ultimate CSS Gradient Generato...
VIDEO: How to create a Scheduled Post in Facebook 11 May 2013 | 05:06 pm
How To Collect Handwritten Signatures in HTML Web Forms 19 Feb 2013 | 07:55 am
A recent project I am quoting on wants users to fill out registration forms on an iPad at their office. They also want to collect the user's signature. I wasn't quite sure I'd be able to do it, but tu...
PHP timezone math made easy 17 Oct 2012 | 05:09 pm
After what seemed like an eternity trying to get my head around adding and subtracting timezone offsets, I finally came across PHP's DateTime class. Basically, you create an instance of the DateTime ...
IDEA: Use YouTube API to auto show a signup form at the end of your video. 4 Oct 2012 | 04:13 am
The link to the page is http://www.upworthy.com/bully-calls-news-anchor-fat-news-anchor-destroys... Watch the video through to the end (It's only 5 minutes) and then watch what happens automatically....
[SOLVED] Canada not In Drupal 7 time zone list 20 Sep 2012 | 08:36 am
If you have had a Canadian user complain that Canada is missing from the Drupal 7 time zone list, here's how to make them happy again. First, the cause of this is that for some reason (I don't actual...
[Solved] Ubercart hook_order Not Working in Drupal 7? 2 Aug 2012 | 09:14 am
I use Ubercart's hook_order to add some additional code to record a purchase in my accounting software, however, when I upgraded to Drupal 7, hook_order stopped working. I didn't get it. The documenta...
How to use Post Status Transition in your Wordpress Plugins 30 Jul 2012 | 05:59 pm
Bit of background. A while ago, I wrote a plugin to send out an email to contributors when their post went from pending to published, to remind them to promote it. But recently, it stopped working. I...
Google Analytics Tracking - Events 24 Jul 2012 | 12:41 pm
Track and measure are probably the two most poorly implemented things on most websites. Sure. It's easy to add Google Analytics to your website, and see what your traffic is doing, but when it comes...
How to keep a PHP script running in background on your linux server 17 May 2012 | 06:31 pm
I had a PHP script that I wanted to keep running in background so that I could get it to perform a task when it received input, but the problem I had was that the PHP script kept timing out, and I wan...