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27. January 2012

Safari: Open links in new tab instead of new window

By default, Safari 5 will open links with a target _blank attribute in a new Safari window. I don’t like this as I prefer to browse in one window. Many of you might have the preference of opening links in a new instead of a new window. To do this, go to Safari > Preferences [...]

19. January 2012

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PHP: URL inside Regex

Using special, regular expression characters in regular expressions require you to escape them in the regular expression pattern. I had an issue with dynamically getting an array of URLs from HREF attribute from links using PHP preg_match_all and then wanted to replace this array of URLs dynamically in a loop again with their Bit.ly links [...]

14. January 2012

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jQuery Cancel Other Ajax Requests

For some reason, you might be submitting Ajax requests to the same URL for the same purpose and returning the same results but it happens that there are multiple Ajax requests just being redundant. Possibly a user interface where a user is making multiple selections on a page, one after the other and running multiple [...]

5. January 2012

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DomPDF images not working

Are you having problems with images not displaying in DomPDF generated PDFs? The probable reason is because you’re linking your images in HTML with a path from the script or with an absolute URL like this: <img src="images/myimage.jpg" /> OR <img src="http://domain.com/images/myimage.jpg" /> The solution is to change the image SRC to the absolute path [...]

5. January 2012

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Canada Post API StatusCode -3001

If you are getting a ‘statusCode‘ as “-3001″ and a ‘statusMessage‘ as “Destination Postal Code/State Name/ Country is illegal.” from the Canada Post API, it means that the city/state/country is causing problems. At this stage, you’re obviously getting an XML response so the credentials, port, etc… should be perfectly fine. Ensure that your XML request [...]

29. August 2011

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jQuery delay function/method

New jQuery delay() method. More information and examples of the jQuery delay() function/method. Here is a quick example: jQuery(‘#mydiv’).attr(‘value’, "Button Text").delay(1500).queue(function() { alert(‘button text was changed’); });

18. July 2011

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Apache: Prevent Directory Browsing

Are web users able to browse the directories on your website and server and see all the files like folders with images in them and sub-folders?

22. June 2011

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WordPress e-Commerce – Sell Anything!

You can sell anything online with WordPress and the WordPress Shopping Cart plugin! Whether you are selling tangible/physical products, digital products, affiliate products, services are you are accepting donations through your website, it can be done in a few easy steps. Let’s not waste any time and get into this!

6. February 2011

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Create an SVN user

SVN users and their hashed (encrypted) passwords is stored in a file on your server. The name of the file could be dav_svn.passwd for example. In order to add more SVN users to this file so that they can login to the repositories, you need to execute HTPASSWD command on this file with the username [...]

30. December 2010

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Last.fm Windows media player won’t scrobble

Chances are that you are having difficulties with scrobbling music from Windows Media Player to Last.fm. You should check your Windows media player plugins.

22. November 2010

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WordPress: Shortcode in Text Widget

By default, WordPress doesn’t parse WordPress or other 3rd party shortcodes in text widgets. I often see people putting shortcodes into text widgets and wonder why nothing is displayed.

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