Posted on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 by admin
I spent an hour today trying to assist a fellow developer with debugging why Internet Explorer 6 suddenly started throwing the dreadfully hard to fix ‘Operation Aborted’ errors on page load. After stripping the page down one piece at a time, he was able to determine that having the following code in the head…
<base target=”_top”>
…while [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 by admin
As I’m developing software, I need a lot of screen real estate and access to more then one OS for browser testing. To that end I have an XP desktop and a Vista laptop. Up until today, I’ve had a keyboard/mouse combo for the desktop and used the built in kb/mouse on the laptop. I [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th November 2007 by admin
I’ve been working on a public website over these last few months and one of the issues I faced was what mechanism to use so that our users could edit the content of some of the pages. I’ve been using Wordpress successfully for awhile now on this site, and it somehow popped into my head [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th November 2007 by admin
This is a simple tip, mostly for myself, with hopes that it will help a future googler. To show the three most recent article titles from wordpress in a non-wordpress page, do the following:
index.php (non-wordpress PHP page)
<ul><?php include(”GetNews.php”); ?></ul>
GetNews.php
<?php
require(’wp_directory/wp-blog-header.php’);
wp_get_archives(’type=postbypost&limit=3&format=html’);
?>
Simple enough if you want to just show headlines with links to the post page.
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Posted on Monday, 24th September 2007 by admin
Ever had to fill a PDF in and print it? Frustrated that you couldn’t save it? This is a great trick for online job apps, requests for information, or anytime your experience this dilemma. The easiest solution I’ve found it to install a third party PDF printer to print your file to. I recommend PDFcreator, [...]
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