Posts Categorized: Programming

I Don’t See the Difference Between Design and Purpose

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I see everything as connected. I don’t see different fields and I don’t believe in specialization. Specialization is for employees. If you want to be a employee, than get a doctorate. You will find a good job.

To do more than that, you need to have a bigger picture.

I see everything I do as putting information in the right order with the right emphasis. Whether I write an article, write software, or design a site. Not that I met that goal every time, but I try. There are bumps and bruises, but I learn from them.  Read more... (193 words, 1 image, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Tag Support for the Onlywire Autosubmit Plugin

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This will be the first time I ventured into editing a plugin. It is hard to find information on tag support for WordPress 2.3. This post will tell me if I found everything I needed to make this plugin work a little better. The original onlywire autosubmit plugin can be found here.

After using it a few times and then checking my delicious account, I realized the tagging functioning of this plugin didn’t work. Then I opened up the plugin and it didn’t even add tags. It just bookmarked your post without any tags to identify it. So I did some research and think I added the correct lines of code.  Read more... (745 words, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)

Convert Just About Any File You Can Think of for Free

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Media Convert 

I have found other conversion tools online but most have limits on the size of the file you can can convert. And others only convert limited file types. After searching for a way to convert an Microsoft Access mdb file to a format I could import into Filemaker, I found this site. Easy. A 39 MB .mdb file converted to excel in about 15 minutes.

The Ultimate Custom Search Engine

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I don’t know if it would be for everyone, but for me yes. I have basically stopped bookmarking, because I end up with thousands and never find what I was looking for. Search the bookmarks is not enough. What would be cool is if a site could spider the pages of your own person bookmarks, so that you could search within the page of the bookmark. Not the whole site, just the one page. Or possibly if you bookmarked the index url, the whole site.  Read more... (235 words, estimated 56 secs reading time)

The Correct 301 Redirect to a New Domain

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I have found a few different example on the web. The first one I used added a big, long, unnecessary query string to the url. The following one works without a hitch. Just change the .htaccess file in the main folder of your site to one containing this text. Of course, replace yournewdomain.com to the one you are redirecting to.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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Developing in the Trenches

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This is the usual trend in my blog. These periods where I don’t post are when I am heavy into developing either sites or software and now that my day job almost mirrors my sidejob. Then I come back with some info that I think is awesome. Of course, it could be common knowledge to most developers with a formal education. But I learned as I went and used what I needed at the time. This leaves quite a few gaps in my education.  Read more... (507 words, estimated 2:02 mins reading time)