May 2008

Open Links to a Different Site in a New Window with Prototype

Using the JavaScript library Prototype I can easily make any external links open in a new window, as well as change the rel=”external” links to open in a target=”_blank” window!

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Smart Quotes in Code with WordPress and Markdown

Wordpress’ built in smart quote formatting was turning my code into un-copy and pastable stuff. Not good! I found a way to turn it off but I”m looking for a way to make it smart enough to avoid all my code.

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Making Firefox's Location Bar More Useful

I’m making Firefox work better for my needs. I use the location bar as a Google search bar and now I can customize it with keywords to do a search through php.net, my own site, or any other search. I can also just use keywords to pull up specific bookmarks.

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Block Tracking and Detect WordPress Login

An update to the function I use to block my tracking scripts, not it blocks tracking form my previews and forces preview query strings and whenever I am logged into the WordPress admin.

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Late Fee Shmate Fee

I beat the credit card company, $15 worth. I win, that’s 3 days of dunks breakfast right there, and a 1/8 of a gas tank :(

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PHP Serialize, What’s it Do? What’s it For?

An explanation of how the PHP serialize() and unserialize() functions can be helpful for you as far as storing a PHP array in a MySQL database and still begin able to attain it’s PHP variable qualities quickly upon retrieval.

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Lighting the Egg Photograph

Lighting a white egg on a white background is a fun strobist exercise. I [over]documented my attempt. Five slightly tweaked lighting setups with photos of the setup and produced image. You should give it a try and share your attempt!

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Clipboard Express WordPress Plugin

Clipboard Express is a multi-user clipboard plugin for WordPress. It allows each user a place to privately store notes, links code snippets and other information they need to have easy access to when logged into WordPress.

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The Day I Really Lost My HDR Virginity

So I used Photomatix for the first time. Wow, it was good for me, now everywhere I look I see the opportunity for another HDR photograph. It’s like crack.

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