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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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WordPress e-Commerce – Sell Anything!

Wednesday, June 22, 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!

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Create an SVN user

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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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 [...]

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Last.fm Windows media player won’t scrobble

Thursday, December 30, 2010

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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.

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WordPress: Shortcode in Text Widget

Monday, November 22, 2010

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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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Nofollow links in WordPress posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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You 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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All 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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Solution 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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I 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. The Rackspace cloud gives you the ability to add multiple cloud servers on the go and resize them according to your resource needs. They bill you per hour [...]

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MacUpdate Promo Spring 2010 Bundle

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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MacUpdate 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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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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