I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…
Category: Programming
Content Connected to Geography
Marion has been working on this idea of connecting information to a location for quite some idea now. WhereIGo has made some of the technology that is needed to make it happen available. If you haven’t read about where the future of information is headed check it out.
hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character
All of my ASP.Net work these days is for ThePlanCollection.com so I have started publishing my problems and hopefully some solutions there. My most recent problem was the “hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character” exception when writing out xml. Click the link to get the code to fix the problem.
Kill Internet Explorer With CSS
We got a call today at The Plan Collection that was interesting. A guy was trying to print out one of our pages. Each time he tried his browser would crash. At first I thought, “that is just nuts. Html can’t crash your browser.” Then Jake tried it and it crashed Internet Explorer. Then I…
Mozy.com’s Backup Software is Shit
Yes you read that right. I used to love this company. The concept is great – backup your data online for dirt cheap. Install the software and away you go. They backup everything and even encrypt your data for security. You get cheap backups and they get a little bit of money. I thought this…
Creative Commons Opens Legal Documents
A couple of developers from Creative Commons were at the code sprint last week. It is fun to interact with guys who are making the world a better place. Creative Commons latest move was to make it easy to get to 1.8 million pages of case law. Here’s some more information and ReadWriteWeb.. This could…
Setting up Subversion on Bluehost
I love subversion. It is handy for all kinds of development. I needed an easier way to update WordPress on my Bluehost account. I tried the standard compile methods but kept running into errors. The problem I ran into was that the server my account runs on is a 64bit machine. I gave up until…
WordPress Makes Me Happy
I have used WordPress for years. Not long after I started using it I went to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Fransisco. While there I engaged in the requisite schmoozing even though I am a developer and not especially great in social situations. At one of the CEO of a small startup that developed…
WordPress Multiuser Extensions
I didn’t just want to setup a WordPress Multiuser site. I also wanted to be able to use multiple domains. Here’s the plugin to make that happen. Setting up the multi site manager plugin might not be obvious. Here’s some more information about the plugin. That’s everything you’ll need.
WordPress Multiuser
I have a couple of blogs – this one and some family ones. Since WordPress updates their code fairly often it has become a royal pain to manage all of them. I debated setting up sym links so that I wouldn’t have to deploy the code in several directories. I even found someone doing just…