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Code Wednesday: Tag cloud
2007-08-08 14:50:00
Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday category list. This code can be used to make a simple and easy tag cloud for your categories or tags on your own website or blog. It uses a simple mathematical sum to calculate a percentage for the font size of each tag and then returns it in a XHTML-compliant, inline list. The function requires an array of the tags in the format: "$tags['tag_name'] = tag_count;", when tag_name is the name of the tag and tag_count is the amount of instances the tag has. Anyway, here is the code: Code (php) function tag_cloud($tags) { if (!$tags) { return false; // Error: no $tag argument was specified. } $max_size = 250; ...
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World Wide Web indicator, is it needed?
2007-08-06 19:09:00
Do we really need to type the "www." prefix to every single website we wish to visit? Everyone knows that a website is hosted on the World Wide Web, so they do not need to be told so every time they type a URL. Last time I checked, I didn't have any site hosted on my Intranet with the name "google.co.uk", so it's extremely important that I tell my browser it should begin it's DNS search on the World Wide Web . That sounds logical, but searching your Intranet before it finds a DNS on the Internet is not a big deal, it takes a mere nanosecond to look at your Intranet to see if "google.co.uk" exists and most browsers just look straight into the Intranet to begin with anyway, regardless of whether you have typed the "www." prefix or not. Why don't we start auto-truncating the "www." from all websites, so the 95% of society who never knew what it stood for in the first place can chill out and stop typing it. We should adopt a new practice: shred the "www." prefix. I really don't thin...
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Holiday from August 4 until August 11
2007-08-02 14:14:00
I am on holiday from August 4 until August 11 so that means any comments or emails that I receive while I am away will not be answered until at least August 11. I have scheduled a few posts for release but don't count on the future posts system to function correctly as I haven't tested it. Oh, and have fun browsing through my blog, it seems to be going really slowly - I think it is due to too many plugins (considering I do have 43 plugins currently active), but I am not sure.
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Code Wednesday: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:43:00
Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday ...
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Code Wednesday: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:31:00
Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday category list. This week I will be showing you how to create yourself a very simple contact form for use on your blog or website. It will consist of just two files - one being the PHP script to send the mail and the other being the HTML that can be used to send the mail - and I will explain how to use them and what they do. Code (php) if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { $to = "you@yourdomain.com"; // E-mail address to send to. $prefix = "[Bull3t's Blog] Simple Contact Form : "; // Subject prefix. $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $subject = $prefix . $_POST['subject']; &nbs...

Code Snippet: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:31:00
Here is another post containing a snippet of code that you can use in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippet s Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older code snippet articles by browsing the code snippet category list. This time I will be ...
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Blog fixed and updated
2007-07-30 18:13:00
Damn that took a long time! I have finally managed to clear the warning messages that appeared on my blog, which looked like the following: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.php on line 95 Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.php on line 96 It didn't only show one though, it showed up to 15 of them and appeared randomly one time while I was editing some of my installed WordPress plugins. I submitted a support ticket to my host asking them whether they had made any changes to my server recently and their senior engineers took the trouble and effort to try and sort out something that was not even caused by them, which was very helpful. I do not think they were familiar enough with WordPress to be able to tell me that it was something to do with permalinks though. I knew that I was registered to the WP-Test...
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Code Wednesday: 1. PHP: Remote filesize function
2007-07-25 03:21:00
Each and every Wednesday from now on, I will publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. Nevertheless, I wanted to create something regular on my blog to ...
More About: Code , Remote , Function , Mote

Code Snippet: Remote filesize function
2007-07-25 03:21:00
I am beginning to publish posts containing snippets of code that you can use in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippet s Folder" on your Desktop. Nevertheless, I wanted to do something on my blog to liven it up a little. View more code snippets. For the ...
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Code Wednesday: Remote filesize function
2007-07-25 03:21:00
Each and every Wednesday from now on, I will publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. Nevertheless, I wanted to create something regular on my blog to liven it up a little, so I went for "Code Wednesday". It may not take off but I will give it a try. For the first one, here is a little script that I found extremely useful, it allows you to retrieve the file size of a file located on a remote server using a HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or FTPS URI, quickly and easily. This is useful because the PHP filesize() function does not always accept HTTP wrappers. Code (php) function remotefilesize($url) { $sch = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_SCHEME); if (($sch != "http") && ($sch != "https") && ($sch != "ftp") && ($sch != "ftps")) { return false; } // Error: unrecognized URI sc...
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Flock version 0.9, what have they done?
2007-07-23 02:40:00
Flock, the web browser that I originally thought imitated Mozilla Firefox to add new features such as uploading pictures to photo sites, advanced feed subscription, blog integration and safer searching has recently been updated. Flock is still in it's early stages, nevertheless, version 0.9 has been released to the general public and people are now beginning to see why it is called "the social web browser", take a look at some of these new features which point out just why so many people are using it as a social networking web browser: Receive updates when friends have new photos, videos or blog posts. Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to popular photo sites. Drag and drop photos and videos from Flock's Media Minibar to email, comment fields, blogs, etc. Collect your favorite photos, videos, and text from the web and blog them instantly. Flock Dashboard, called "My World" is now live, supporting many social networking services, enabling you to access them all from one page an...
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Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon
2007-07-07 11:24:00
I have just been invited to join Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon which is beginning to replace Twitter. I absolutely love it! When I first discovered Twitter I thought that it was a good idea, but this just takes it to the extreme. Instead of just being able to send messages, like Twitter, ...
More About: Social , Social Networking , Applications , Networking , Working

Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon
2007-07-07 11:24:00
UpdateCurrent number of Pownce invitations left: 19! Post a comment and I will send one your way. I have just been invited to join Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon which is beginning to replace Twitter. I absolutely love it! When I first discovered Twitter I thought that it was a good idea, but this just takes it to the extreme. Instead of just being able to send messages, like Twitter, you can send files, events and links. Pownce also has it's very own desktop application created for Adobe's brand new Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform. Pownce is very similar to Twitter but has some features that improve the overall concept. There is currently no public timeline though, so that can be a downfall because your messages can only be viewed by people who know your Pownce URL (so that would be your friends and anyone you have advertised it to). You can reply to individual messages to add your own views and comments on a message someone else has written, which makes it a litt...
More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Phenom , Enon

Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon
2007-07-07 11:24:00
UpdateI have just been given 12 more invites from Pownce, so keep commenting. Current number of Pownce invitations left: 22! Post a comment and I will send one your way. I have just been invited to join Pownce, the new social networking phenomenon which is beginning to replace Twitter. I absolutely love it! When I first discovered ...
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Viewing websites through Internet Explorer
2007-07-05 09:26:00
Haven't been posting much lately; too much stuff going on and just haven't had any inspiration, thus having not posted anything. This also means that K2 Explained releases have slowed down a little, but I haven't forgotten them and will be adding a few more articles soon. I am also in the process of creating a new WordPress plugin to check for updates for other plugins using a text file, check my projects page for more information. I have been tweaking a few things on my blog even though I have not posted. For example the 'Random' button above randomly selects a post from my blog so that you can discover old posts and read up on older subjects. Hopefully a few of my other tweaks (such as the date and mini-navigation at the top of the page) will be added to a K2 Explained article in the near future. Anyway, we all know that Internet Explorer has a tendency to mess up a web page by not showing it as many other browsers do, but this just takes the piss. When you first arrive on my...
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Viewing websites through Internet Explorer
2007-07-05 09:26:00
Haven’t been posting much lately; too much stuff going on and just haven’t had any inspiration, thus having not posted anything. This also means that K2 Explained releases have slowed down a little, but I haven’t forgotten them and will be adding a few more articles soon. I am also in the process of ...
More About: Internet , Internet Explorer , Websites , Explorer , Intern

K2 Explained: Feed Advertisement
2007-06-14 20:08:00
K2 Explained: Feed Advertise ment has now been added to the archives!
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K2 Explained: Styling released
2007-06-06 21:29:00
I have just added K2 Explained: Styling to the K2 Explained archives, which shows you have to create a simple yet stylish K2 WordPress scheme without the need to edit any of the core files for K2. At first I started out by creating a minor scheme edit that was going to be unique ...
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Introducing K2 Explained
2007-06-03 17:05:00
I have just started up a new project, called K2 Explained and am about to start explaining. K2 Explained is hopefully going to become a source for documentation of How To’s for the currently, extremely popular WordPress theme, K2. In itself, K2 Explained will aim to rewrite some of the “How2K2″ articles by Cary ...
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