November 13, 2010 at 12:15 am | General | No comment
This Movember, the month formerly known as November I’ve decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer. My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, controversy and laughter.
I’m doing this because 4,400 men die of prostate cancer in Canada each year and one in six men will be diagnosed during his lifetime. This is a cause that I feel passionately about and I’m asking you to support my efforts by making a donation to Prostate Cancer Canada.
To help, you can either:
- Click this link http://ca.movember.com/mospace/1041268/ and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account
- Write a cheque payable to Prostate Cancer Canada, referencing my name or Registration Number 1041268 and mailing it to: Prostate Cancer Canada, Suite 306 145 Front Street East, Toronto, ON M5A 1E3, Canada.
All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please visit: http://ca.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs.
Thank you in advance for helping me to support men’s health.
November 3, 2010 at 8:56 pm | PHP, Windows | No comment
If you want to make simple standalone command-line apps in Windows using PHP, go download the Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder. It can’t get much simpler.
Write your code, run compile.bat, and Bambalam! you’ve got you app.
For using command-line parameters, check out these variables:
$_SERVER['argc']; // number of arguments
$_SERVER['argv']; // array of arguments
November 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm | PHP | 2 comments
This is a list of all the plugins I used on a recent project that worked well together to streamline WordPress for better use as a CMS. Simple Fields worked really well for having a different banner image on each page.
Admin Management Xtended
WordPress 2.7+ only. Extends admin functionalities by introducing: toggling post/page visibility inline, changing page order with drag’n'drop, inline category management, inline tag management, changing publication date inline, changing post slug inline, toggling comment status open/closed, hide draft posts, change media order, change media description inline, toggling link visibility, changing link categories
By Oliver Schlöbe | Visit plugin site
Admin Menu Editor
Lets you directly edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename existing menus, add custom menus and more.
By Janis Elsts | Visit plugin site
CMS Dashboard
Big user friendly buttons to make your clients happy and your wordpress a better CMS
By Ross Johnson | Visit plugin site
CMS Tree Page View
Adds a CMS-like tree view of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS. By using the tree you can edit, view, add pages and even search pages (useful if you have many pages). And with drag and drop you can rearrange the order of your pages. Page management won’t get any easier than this!
By Pär Thernström | Visit plugin site
Members
A user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access. A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS.
By Justin Tadlock | Visit plugin site
Simple Fields
Add groups of textareas, input-fields, dropdowns, radiobuttons, checkboxes and files to your edit post screen.
By Pär Thernström | Visit plugin site
TinyMCE Advanced
Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE, the visual editor in WordPress.
By Andrew Ozz | Visit plugin site
White Label CMS
A plugin that allows you to brand wordpress CMS as your own
By www.videousermanuals.com | Visit plugin site
October 8, 2010 at 5:19 pm | Scripts, Windows | No comment
While developing a website you should routinely check to make sure your pages are working properly in many major browsers. This is a DOS Batch script that will let you open a specific page in all your browsers with a single command.
Source
@ECHO OFF
IF "%1"=="" GOTO Continue
start iexplore %1
start firefox %1
start chrome %1
start safari %1
:Continue
Installation
Open a text editor and save the above code to a file in your Windows directory.
C:\WINDOWS\browsertest.bat
Usage
Run the script with the URL you want to test as the 1st parameter.
Click on Start -> Run and enter the following command:
browsertest http://www.danbeland.com
September 23, 2010 at 11:55 pm | For Sale | No comment
*Update* Sept 30, 2010
I have sold the truck. Thank you to all those who were interested.
I’ve bought myself a new truck so the old one needs to go! This is a great little truck for everyday driving and is just what you need for occasional dump runs, moving, dirt bikes, camping, or just about anything else. Locally owned and originally bought at Pacific Mazda. Second owner. Believe it or not this little Mazda has substantially more usable space overall than the new Rangers, and much better gas mileage too. Everything I can think of is listed below, but contact me or leave a comment with any questions! (more…)
February 26, 2010 at 2:06 pm | Scripts | No comment
This script works great for doing grayscale on hover when used with jQuery.
http://james.padolsey.com/demos/grayscale/
I used it to gray out thumbnails on a staff page then used the grayscale.reset() function to colour them in on hover. The demo page says it doesn’t work well in Chrome but it seems to be working fine for me.
February 10, 2010 at 7:36 pm | CSS | No comment
Create boxes with a semi-transparent background while keeping the content (images/text) opaque.
http://www.dedestruct.com/2008/03/06/how-to-cross-browser-css-transparent-divs-with-opaque-content/
February 2, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Websites | No comment
Jim Zinger was actively involved within the local art community and gradually became widely recognized as a gifted artist, illustrating books and teaching manuals. His work has been the subject of many articles, reviews and newspaper articles throughout North America, where his work has been shown in countless exhibitions and galleries. He now enjoys international recognition, with his art being held in private and public collections worldwide.
Visit Jim Zinger’s Website
October 8, 2009 at 4:52 pm | PHP | No comment
Quick n’ Simple. Check it:
function strtoslug($str) {
$str = strtolower(trim($str));
$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
return $str;
}
October 7, 2009 at 12:32 pm | Websites | No comment
Winexpert is the world’s largest manufacturer of consumer winemaking products. Check out their new site here: http://www.winexpert.com
Beyond The Grape is a Winexpert Retailer. Visit their new site: http://www.beyondthegrape.com
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