I’ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well. It’s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice…
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SPAM sucks for everyone and fighting against it is a losing battle, yet we web developers have to do our best to limit it the best we can. I’m facing a number of situations where I have to choose between offering the user a CAPTCHA or a challenge-response e-mail (e-mail them a link to click).…
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I debugged a strange WordPress issue for a client today, one I hadn’t seen or heard of before, so I thought I’d document it. The symptoms: IE7 would try to download the wp-login.php page instead of loading it. Mobile devices (using my mobile plugin would complain that they could not view the site due to…
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My thoughts basically echo Michael’s. The entire experience was a roaring success and I don’t think any of us had any idea how valuable it really was going to be.
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Would someone create a Mail.app plugin to implement kill this thread1 functionality? That would be grreeeeaaaaat. Basically, auto-delete (or create filters to auto-delete) all future messages by In-Reply-To headers (and possibly References headers, now exactly sure how it all works). [back]
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Startup Weekend is in full swing – so far it has exceeded my expectations. If any of you have been involved in startups before then the idea of a big team of people, many of who have never met before, trying to build something in a weekend is probably one that will make you a…
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I recently switched a project from Prototype/Scriptaculous to jQuery, and overall I’m very pleased with the move. It’s sometimes a little weird using jQuery because I’ve been thinking JavaScript in DOM for so long, but I don’t feel an urge to go back. 🙂 Everything was working great after the conversion, with one exception. Elements…
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One of the elements I added to the Crowd Favorite web site is a bottom section footer. This is part of my mullet design of the site: business in front, party in the back (or at the bottom in this case). The top of the site is a little more corporate and traditional, the bottom…
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I’ve used a variety of means to migrate from one Mac to another over the years: Manually copy stuff over and do clean reinstalls. Clone the HD from one machine to another. And today, I used the migration assistant. I imagine the migration assistant is great for most folks, but it’s less than ideal for…
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Note: This is the eleventh (and last) in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. When I first launched alexking.org back in 2002, I didn’t plan to make any money from it or do any advertising on it. I remember friends telling me I should put up ads when I was slashdotted…
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If you’re not a developer, feel free to skip this post. 🙂 I’ve been re-organizing my SVN repositories over the last week or so. This is what I’ve finally come up: clients – all client projects live in here, with a sub-dir for each client. documentation – docs for Tasks Pro™, Tasks™, etc. Having them…
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Note: This is the tenth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. I’ve covered a lot of the benefits to having your entire site in a single CMS earlier in this series, but let me quickly highlight them again here. Flexibility With the content completely separated from the presentation, you can…
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As noted previously, I’m using Tumblr for my tumblog. On of the cool things Tumblr allows you to do is create a custom theme for your tumblog – which I’ve done: It basically matches the theme you see here on alexking.org, but the navigation menu at the top has links out to the sources for…
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I get lots of e-mails regarding my WordPress plugins, running the entire spectrum from: Thank you so much, this works perfectly and is exactly what I wanted. to: Your plugin sucks, it dosen’t work and it doesn’t do what I want. Thankfully I get much more of the former than the latter. 😉 This is…
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Yesterday evening All Things Digital, a new home for Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and John Paczkowski was unleashed on the internet. I’ve been working on this for the past month and a half, and it’s been a real whirlwind project. When we got the contract to build the site using WordPress, we were warned that…