Here’s something you expected: Virgin Media have taken even more control away from you and will hijack a domain when a DNS entry doesn’t exist. Try to go to a domain that doesn’t exist, and rather than get Firefox’s error message or equivalent, Virgin Media will pretend it does exist and give some search results. READ MORE
Making the Web (http://making-the-web.com/) is for sale!
It has average of 30,000 page views per month, and average revenue of $27. Please take a look and get bidding! The auction will close on Friday.
Many people will turn to Twitter to break and discuss news. However, I feel as-if Twitter, on its own, is not a great medium for distributing and discovering news and events. Although there exists a ‘Popular Topics’ feature, there is no obvious attempt to actually connect with the news and events; rather, there is just short, vague and duplicated statements, lacking the editorial quality we are accustomed to from respected news providers. READ MORE
When I first looked at the code behind Wordpress plugins, it looked quite daunting: It was full of API interaction, and to understand what was going on required jumping between files, tracing through various function calls. I have developed for Wordpress (third-party) for almost a year now, and find it a great platform to build for. My initial scepticism was quickly overcome, from learning that you do not really need to understand everything that goes on. READ MORE
A few weeks back, FileZilla for some reason stopped showing .htaccess and other files and directories (starting with a period, .). I was about to give up and ditch the program, but I liked it too much and eventually got it working. If you are having these issues, try:
Support from MediaTemple (I was convinced it was their servers) told me to force the FTP program to display hidden files. With FileZilla, simply click the ‘Server‘ menu and ensure ‘Force showing hidden files’ is checked:
Check 'Force showing hidden files'
This did not solve the problem, but it is understandable that it might in some circumstances.
I’ve never heard of filters in FileZilla, but a post on FileZilla Forums advised that they be off. Sure enough, this was the problem. Simply click the ‘Filters’ icon and ensure no filters are active (uncheck all tick boxes).
Click the 'Filters' icon
Uncheck all tick boxes
I recently stumbled across a page — something about keypad access — from David Rusenko’s blog. I wasn’t too interested in the page, so took a quick glance at the comments, before planning to stumble on. It seemed everybody was talking about the header being amazing; even more than about the content. I was slightly confused, as it looked like any-old header, and moved my mouse over to the ‘Stumble!’ button—and, WOW! The header moves! Give it a go.
Unless anybody says otherwise, I declare this the coolest header on the Internet. Feel free to share any other great headers you have seen…
It seems that the media cover a story on Twitter every day. Here are just 5 of today’s publications from some reputable media outlets: READ MORE
A few months ago, I started to develop a Wordpress plugin which enabled people on my blog to write articles, and then submit them. In turn, I would make an offer (of money), depending on how suitable the article was. The author would then accept or decline the offer; leading, if they accepted, to publication. The idea for this plugin arose because I previously had to sent e-mails back and forth between authors, to come to an agreed offer. Having everything done via Wordpress’s interface would have made things a lot easier; and would make it easier for authors to submit content. READ MORE