Yearly Archives: 2009

BlogBuzz March 21, 2009

Mar 21, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz One Comment

cURL From the Console

Mar 20

cURL is often used on the server end to pull web pages and RSS feeds for parsing, or for interacting with APIs. It’s a nifty tool, and one that I use quite frequently. cURL also can be used, in a command line environment, to…

Once Again, “Old Media” Gets Web Advertising Wrong…

Mar 19

The Online Publishers Association is calling for new, more intrusive ad formats to combat banner-blindness. “A large-scale intrusive format is absolutely necessary in today’s market,” said Adam Kleinberg, chief executive of Traction, a San Francisco ad agency. “With the economy and the move to…

Browser Extensions: A Call For Standardization

Mar 18

I use Firefox as my main browser, and have since it was released pretty much. Over that time I have become dependent on a variety of extensions. ColorZilla, Web Developer, Firebug, StumbleUpon, etc.. I use them daily, and a browser without them would feel…incomplete…

GoCodes 1.3.0 Released

Mar 17

Version 1.3.0 of the GoCodes redirection plugin has been released. Several long-awaited improvements have been made. .htaccess editing is no longer required. As long as you are using “pretty permalinks” instead of the default ?p=123 type thing you can just drop the GoCodes plugin…

BurnURL: Social URL Shortening

Mar 16

Since TinyURL made the concept of URL-shortening huge, and since Twitter has made it more important than ever, there have been a lot of sites springing up and offering similar services. There’s the ultra-tiny is.gd, the statistic-centric TweetBurner, and a smattering of other TinyURL…

How Much Longer Will IE Last?

Mar 16

Internet Explorer is notorious for it’s laughable support for W3C standards. Look around in the web design community and you’ll find that a lot of designers do not like the browser one bit, as a result of having to find workarounds so a page…

PHP Filter_Var() – Sanitize Common Data Input

Mar 15

Filter_Var() is a PHP function intended to help validate and sanitize certain types of data. It can verify that an email address is in a correct format, remove harmful characters and tags, etc.. I discovered this interesting feature through Sanitize and Validate Data with…

BlogBuzz March 14, 2009

Mar 14

BuySellAds WordPress Plugin

Mar 13

I’ve previously talked about the distinguished BuySellAds banner marketplace. The network makes it much easier to sell ad space on your website, and has proven to be an excellent alternative to directly making deals with advertisers. Thaya Kareeson of Omninoggin.com has put together a…