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I (Antonie Potgieter) am a software engineer/web developer located in South Africa. My full-time work is the management of Tribulant Software and the development of its software packages.

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Nofollow links in WordPress posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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ShareYou may want to create rel nofollow links in your WordPress posts when writing them for your own specific reasons. There are two ways of going about adding links with a nofollow relationships inside your TinyMCE editor.

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WordPress: Using Really Simple Captcha

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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ShareAll WordPress plugin developers, you can integrate a security captcha image into your own WordPress plugin using the Really Simple Captcha plugin. It is a plugin in itself but it serves as an API and doesn’t have any purpose on its own without other plugins using it. This is an example of how to use [...]

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403 forbidden you don’t have permission to access / on this server

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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ShareSolution for the error 403 Forbidden you don’t have permission to access / on this server. This specific HTTP 403 error will only appear on an Apache server.

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Why I left the Rackspace Cloud

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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ShareI started using the Rackspace cloud because of Rackspace’s good reputation and of course the ability to host multiple servers on a cloud at an “affordable” price.

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MacUpdate Promo Spring 2010 Bundle

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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ShareMacUpdate has a promotional bundle for a limited time period only which includes 10 top Mac applications This bundle is only valid for another 10 days from now, when I publish this post on Lost-In-Code. Get it now! It includes…

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MySQL : ORDER BY numbers

Saturday, May 9, 2009

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ShareIn this article I will show you how to order MySQL records by numeric values (numbers, integers & floats) from the smallest to the largest number or the other way around using a MySQL ORDER BY query.

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WordPress : Enqueue Styles

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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ShareThis article will show you how to safely insert your CSS for your WordPress plugin or theme into the HEAD section of both the WordPress front-end and administration panel.

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WordPress: Saving FTP Details

Saturday, April 25, 2009

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ShareDoing an automatic upgrade of WordPress or any of your installed WordPress plugins is rather quick and painless though it could be much quicker if you didn’t have to fill in the FTP login details to your site each time.

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jQuery : Auto iFrame Height

Monday, April 20, 2009

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ShareThis article will show you how to automatically adjust the height of an iFrame to the height of the content inside of the iFrame with the use of the jQuery JavaScript library and the jQuery autoHeight plugin.

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Clear DNS Cache

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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Clear DNS Cache

Share Mac OS Tiger Mac OS Leopard I have experienced some problems in the past (and still do from time to time) with opening specific sites from my computer while my internet connection is fine and other sites open without any issues.

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