How to backup your Gmail (and other email) for free
Install MailStore, fire it up, and choose the type of account you’d like to back up. Most of the major webmail services are supported: Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live/Hotmail, and any service you can...
View ArticleSWF CSS Display Change Causes Reload in Firefox and Chrome
Ran into an interesting issue today. Apparently if you’re using display:none to toggle the visibility of a flash (swf) file, it will reload the content once the display is changed from none to another...
View ArticleJS Lint: Missing ‘new’ prefix when invoking a constructor
When you have a function that starts with a capital letter, JS Lint (and JS Hint) will consider it a constructor since that is the traditional constructor syntax. JS Lint will throw the error “JS Lint:...
View ArticleJS Lint: Too many var statements
It is generally best practice to have only one var statement per scope block in JavaScript. If the “Require only one var per function” option is checked in JS Lint (of JS Hint), it will issue a warning...
View ArticleFind the Largest Files on Your Computer
If you’re like me, hard drives never seem big enough. My hard drive could make an appearance on the TV show Hoarders. I knew that I had a lot of large, unneeded files on my hard drive, so I wrote a...
View ArticleHow to Convert a PSD to an HTML Website
If you’re a designer, your biggest struggle is often turning your design into a beautiful html website. There are several ways to solve this problem. This resource I found details many of those ways...
View ArticleMajor Server Upgrade
I’m happy to announce that I have just completed the migration of this blog from GoDaddy shared hosting to a GoGrid private cloud server. So far I couldn’t be happier with the performance improvments...
View ArticleHow to create a 301 redirect with .htaccess and Apache
If you’re using Apache as a webserver, you’ve probably heard of the strangly named file “.htaccess”. This file allows for configuration of Apache in a multitude of ways, but the one that I want to...
View ArticleHow to rewrite page file extension with .htaccess
If you ever run across the need to rewrite a webpage URL from one extension to another (.html to .php for example), you can use the following .htaccess code. # Only add the following 3 lines if they...
View ArticleWhat is a 301 Redirect?
Having had to work with 301 redirects a lot lately for several clients that I work with, I thought I would put together a mini-series to talk about them. What a 301 redirect is: What is a 301 redirect...
View ArticleServer Migration
It’s possible that this site will experience temporary downtime during the server migration that is scheduled for later tonight. Thank you for your patience.
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