Stumbling Feedburner integration
Google’s acquisition of Feedburner continues to stumble along. Integration doesn’t seem to be going well at all. Many users are complaining about broken stats. Me too. See ReadWriteWeb’s review of...
View ArticleEclipse crashing when typing $
Eclipse 3.5 has been hanging almost every time I type a “$” character… and that’s quite often. Every time this happened I had to force-quite on my Mac. At least PDT fixed that ridiculous “Selection Job...
View ArticleConfiguring my new MacBook Pro for development
I’m setting up my new —well, used, thanks JB!— MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard for development. I’m using MacPorts for simplicity, but of course, one always runs into something that baffles and...
View ArticlePHPMyAdmin: Setting up the MAMP environment
Continuing notes to self. Followed the PHPMyAdmin macports installation instructions here. I couldn’t get logged in to PHPMyAdmin. When I tried to log in I got the message “#2002 – The server is not...
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Even floated div columns: equalHeights
When you are floating a bunch of divs inside a container, it is a design problem when the divs are of different heights depending on their content, because they tend to wrap funky. One can, by brute...
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Altering CSS for every nth element of a class
I wanted to improve on my previous jquery fix to remove the left padding for the 4th floating div.widget on the Rabbit Software homepage. If I add more widgets, the rows won’t align correctly unless I...
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Preparing a website for downtime during maintenance
I’m getting ready to deploy a website, and I don’t want to hurt my customer’s SEO during the downtime. I did some research, and found some best practices recommended by Google and SEOMOZ, an SEO blog....
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Analyze your WordPress Website
I will create a comprehensive report on the condition of your WordPress website, addressing code, SEO, features, and appearance. I’ll listen carefully to your concerns and questions, so I understand...
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Taxonomies and Custom Post_Type
I have been working with a very nice theme from Graph Paper Press called “Reportage.” I’ve been making a fair number of modifications for my client, particularly involving the custom post type,...
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CSS trick: insert decorative transparent quote marks in block quotes
I wanted to customize the style of blockquotes in the new WordPress theme I chose for http://pugix.com. I had seen a very attractive style consisting of semi-opaque very large double quote characters...
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