Tag: web development
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When I’m too smart for tech support…
This isn’t the first time I’ve contacted web hosting tech support only to find out they couldn’t help me and managed to fix the problem myself. This time the support on the other end was HostGator. To their credit, the rep I talked to seemed to genuinely want to help. However, after 40 minutes it was…
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SublimeText — I think I’m in love
I’m not one to gush about text editors. Pretty much they do their job and that’s about it. I respect the amount of work that goes into something like, say, OpenOffice.org Writer, but I wouldn’t say I’m in love with any particular aspect of it (except, perhaps, that it’s free — as in beer —…
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New gig
As of today, I have a new gig. The longer story is that things have been slow in the web design front. My going theory is that the industry — especially given the economy; that great excuse we’ve been using for everything from health care to what store we shop at — is moving toward…
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my favorite new WordPress trick
this little functions.php hack makes me all giddy… use this to rebrand your WordPress back-end with your own logo: //hook the administrative header output add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘my_custom_logo’); function my_custom_logo() { echo ‘ ‘; } and here’s what it would look like in action: by default, the WP logo is 32px square. so what do you do…
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adobe fights fire with…teddy bears
Adobe launched a new ad campaign today along with a response to Steve Jobs’ declaration that Flash will never be supported on iPhones, iPads, and iPods last week. (In fact, they’ve added a whole new Freedom of Choice section on Adobe.com.) There are a few amusing (and somewhat contradictory) statements in Adobe’s open letter (like this one: “If…
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There’s Too Many ThinkTanks
so here’s the story: back in the mid- to late-nineties, i made a lot of music. i was angsty and in high school, and spent a lot of time focussing that angsty into some screamy tunes set to bad synthesizers that i called music. i even had a fake record label. or three. first,…
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freelance success!
after a month of being frustrated and writing bids on projects we wouldn’t get, erin and i re-evaluated what we were doing, how we were approaching the business, and what we should be doing. since then, in a little over a week, we’ve scored 7 new projects on Elance and completed 4 of them. saying…