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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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MySQL : ORDER BY numbers

Saturday, May 9, 2009

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In 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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This 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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Doing 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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This 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

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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Redirect a Web Page

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Redirect a Web Page

This article will guide you through the procedure of redirecting a web page properly, the search engine friendly way with HTTP 301 status in order to tell search engines that the page has permanently moved to a different location.

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WordPress Plugins 2009

Friday, November 28, 2008

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WordPress Plugins 2009

I’ve decided to recommend 5 universal, essential plugins for WordPress so that you can start the year of 2009 on the right foot with your WordPress websites. If you haven’t tried these, go ahead and put them on your WordPress website!

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WordPress Source Code Reference

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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WordPress Source Code Reference

Browse and search the WordPress source cross reference while working on WordPress related projects.

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WordPress Whois Plugin

Sunday, November 23, 2008

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WordPress Whois Plugin

Download a free WordPress WHOIS plugin which will allow you to insert a domain WHOIS search form into any WordPress post or page.

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WordPress Image Gallery

Saturday, November 22, 2008

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WordPress Image Gallery

Building WordPress image galleries is a rather painless process and allows you to display a set of photos/images to your users inside posts/pages related to an event or topic.

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