Ninedays Blog

A simple PHP function to help you query the Technorati API and find out how many reactions Technorati has seen other sites have about your content!

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Playing with API’s is fun, here’s a quick demo of how to use the Digg API to find out how many times an individual page has been Dugg. Super easy to implement anywhere using PHP5.

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Using the FeedBurner and del.icio.us API’s and feeds you can add the number of FeedBurner subscribers or del.icio.us bookmarks to any of your sites of blog pages with just a little PHP and ingenuity!

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I’ve done a guest blog at the Lifestream Blog. Go check it out now, or I’ll fight you ;)

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As I push the new look/feel live I know I’ve got a long road of change ahead of me.

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One of my favorite trends online is using relative dates like ‘1 week ago’ or ‘4 days ago’ instead of the standard June 11, 2008. I find it helpful in really getting a feel for the freshness of an entry or comment and it’s super easy to implement in WordPress.

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A quick little lesson about how to test a new theme in WordPress and perfect it for your use without making it live to the public. Best part is: you don’t have to install a new copy of WordPress!

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I got written up in two blogs today. How cool is that?!?!

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Had to clean up some of the business end of the site. It’s about damn time!

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26 Things for May 2005 PDF checklist download! The alphabet game. This is gonna be fun!

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SO it’s spring, and it’s time for me to emerge from my web dev cocoon/hibernation and become a bustling busy photography butterfly!

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My quick little review of the WordPress 2.5 overhaul. The good, the bad and the ugly.

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I’m rounding up a list of hot air balloon festivals in New England that I hope to try and make my way to this spring/summer/fall. Maybe I’ll even hit a festival on a trip somewhere else. Maybe.

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How I made the Rosco gel samples I ordered easier to access to play with filtering light coming from my sb600 off camera flash.

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Use javascript to make XHTML valid rel=”external” act like target=”blank” in a snap using the Prototype JavaScript library.

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My first video entry, showing you how quick and easy it was for me to setup my new background stand I purchased from Amvona.com

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An addition to our PHP/MySQL Query class created last month now we have quick and organized ways to maintain our MySQL INSERT and UPDATE queries.

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Sometimes there’s a need for a website to be available entirely in multiple languages. Here we take a look at setting up such a thing, using a single PHP page with a switch statement to display one of five language translations. Using the .htaccess file we also make the URL’s look good while still maintaining minimal pages.

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Just a little break, sorry about that. I’ve been crazy busy and unfortunately I don’t see that slowing down any time soon.

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It’s very easy to take what we did back in January for reusable PHP drop down menu code and make it work for multi value select elements.

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I’ve seen how you end up here, now I’m going to help you find what you are looking for by custom tailoring my content to your search needs.

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I’ll walk you through a still-life, flower photo shoot I did. Including reflecting the subject on glass and a mirror, and achieving a solid background with items I had lying around my place.

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Database Playground is on a temporary hiatus but it will be back as soon as I can catch up on some of the posts I need to write!

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It’s really easy to force the www for your website URL and to redirect a directory properly to a new subdomain address. Just give it a shot, organize your directories!

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Every web developer has a library of code that they reference frequently, if not constantly. I’m sharing with you one of my most useful snippets my MySQL helper class that helps me organize my queries and easily reference commonly used functions.

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The relationships between states, divisions and regions are simple but need to be setup properly from the start. Here we’ll walk though the setup.

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Trying to find inspiration for a new project that won’t be so much content-heavy as it will need to be easy to update. I’m thinking a magazine look and feel using Wordpress will be the best solution but let’s delve a little deeper into some of the popular Wordpress magazine-like themes.

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Somehow I ended up at the 1990 US census and I realized what a valuable data resource it is! All kinds of data that I can use to make a well structured MySQL playground to test new scripts and ideas on.

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Take a query string and save the values to a cookie using JavaScript. A perfect solution for tracking query string’s values throughout a site that isn’t using any server side scripting.

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In order to query the users with birthdays from my MySQL table I had to convert Unix timestamps saved as integers to a more usable DATETIME format, then we explore two ways to query the birthdays.

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Major Valentines day updates to the Chumby control panel including music updates, touch screen enhancements as well as a custom alarm clock. Just what this doctor ordered. Check out my review of some of the changes.

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Setting, updating retrieving and deleting cookies with JavaScript is a whole lot easier than I remembered. I’ve not got a quick library of functions available at my fingertips for such actions, wanna see?

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While using the Really Easy Validation JavaScript validation library I’ve accumulated a few custom validations that for US phone numbers, US zip codes, Canadian postal codes as well as replacing empty fields or fields that don’t contain a numeric value. Good stuff!

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Graceful degradation is something that really needs to be considered when it comes to server side scripting. What happens to your drop down menu, your fly-out magic or your ajax functionality when JavaScript is no longer enabled?

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Using the CSS nth-child selectors I’ve learned how to alternate colors using the Prototype library. Great to apply a style to your tables without having to apply styles by hand or using extra loops/counting with your server side scripting.

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I’m starting in on the better budget challenge over at the Sense to Save blog. See if I can quickly turn any financial woes into something good for myself.

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Encoding special characters can be tricky, especially when you have clients with custom CMSs who like to copy and paste all the em dashes and trademark symbols from word into your web based text area. Now I have found a solution for my needs!

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Limit and display the number of characters available in a text area using my little add on script to the Prototype JavaScript library. Very easy to implement, and great feedback to your form filler-outers.

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Drop down or select menu’s are a common form item that is used frequently in the CMS’, registration forms and lead forms I build. In this entry I’ve explored the way I find to most effectively display frequently used drop downs: US states, months and days of the week.

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Happy new year to y’all! Hope you had a happy holiday season and I’m hoping to make this a fully year of ND fun with more series, photoblog and tutorials. All the things I think (and hope) you’re looking for!

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