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New project: Forking SMF (Simple machines forum)

Admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:04:19 +0000

For a couple of years, I'd been running an active forum for my Open Source projects. Years back, I'd chosen simple machines forum (better known simply as SMF), because of its features and the fast development progress it had back in 2005, prior to its first official release. SMF was free, but not Open Source. [...]

WordPress: The plugin generated 1 characters of unexpected output

Admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:12:13 +0000

Sometimes, when you activate a plugin in the admin panel, you may see an error message like this: The plugin generated 1 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin. This is usually caused by additional white [...]

JavaScript – $(document).ready() without jQuery

Admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:08:31 +0000

How to implement a $(document).ready() alike function without jQuery that executes when the DOM is complete.

No excerpt for pages in WordPress?

Admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:49:57 +0000

How to enable excerpts for pages in WordPress

JavaScript – why simulating a click using the click() method doesn’t work in Chrome

Admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:56:42 +0000

Chrome doesn't allow simulating a click using the click() method. While working on some WordPress plugin to enhance the comment system with a couple of Ajax features, i ran into a problem. My code was using the click() method on a link object to simulate a click on this link and while this did work [...]

Apache – why it may serve Office documents as .zip files

Admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:00:36 +0000

Why does my web server rename a .xlsx file to .zip? A friend called me with a trivial problem he was having on his web server. He wanted to offer a excel document for download and some of his users pointed out that the document's file name extension was always changed to .ZIP when they [...]

Add Google +1 to WordPress (no plugin, just a template hack)

Admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:39:24 +0000

Unless you've been under a rock for the past few days, you probably know it already. Google has launched the +1 button for web masters to integrate into their sites. I'm not going much into detail about this button as there is plenty of stuff to read on the web. Obviously, they are trying to [...]

The future of Miranda IM or is instant messaging dying?

Admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:54:25 +0000

Since quite a number of people were asking about the future of the Miranda instant messenger and whether it is dead, because there has not been any major activity for almost a year now (except the usual minor bug fix updates), I'll try to explain a few things.

Passive share and Tweet buttons in WordPress

Admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:15:03 +0000

The crux with the Like As a matter of fact, there are a lot of privacy concerns with the viral Like and Tweet buttons that appear almost everywhere on the net. While the feature itself is nice and can certainly help to attract visitors and generate traffic, people often fail to see the risks. Do [...]

Are you afraid of JavaScript?

Admin — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:44:05 +0000

How do you deal with JavaScript? [poll id="3"] A couple of days ago, I had one of these discussion with a good friend, who is - like myself - a typical "IT guy". Many of his opinions can be seen as fairly "old school", but he does have a lot of experience, particularly with network [...]