For those of you who have not heard, Problogger.net’s Darren Rowse has launched a new blog all about Twitter. www.twitip.com is sure to be as good of a resource for Twitter that Problogger.net is for blogging and bloggers. Innovation, niche and timing are key, and I think Darren hit this one at the [...]

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This simple script takes a source image, and up to two parameters to re-size the image using ImageMagick. This allows you to use a large source image that is suitable for a zoomed in view, and dynamically re-size it using the simple script which will make it fit the x,y constraints necessary for a [...]

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I was interested in using and experimenting with the XMLReader class that is part of PHP 5, and thought why not test it out using my Twitter feed. Turns out, the feed contained more information than I really wanted, so I had to find a way to extract only what I needed. To [...]

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I am currently accepting new projects, either on a freelance basis or on an employment basis. The employment basis may be either a temporary, temp-to-hire, contract-to-hire or direct hire situation. At this time I am not available for relocation, so local opportunities (those that are not available via telecommuting/offsite work) must be within [...]

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Well, I have spent several months wondering why I couldn’t ever load any Java applets in IE 7. Not that it’s a big deal since I use FireFox more than Internet Explorer, for reasons obvious to many Web surfers. However, it kept nagging at me and so I looked into it today and [...]

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I recently found an interesting tool call BrowserCamp that allows users to obtain a free screen shot of what their web site would look like in the Safari 2.0.4 web browser. It also offers paid memberships that allow users to login in via VNC to take control of a Mac OS X machine to [...]

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Recently for a school project I was working on, I had to develop an XTHML 1.1 Strict validated page and a validated CSS to style the page. This was not a problem in and of itself, however there were several problems that I encountered while trying to serve the pages to different browsers and [...]

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