Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Amazon CloudPlayer Fail On iOS

No luck using Amazons new web based CloudPlayer on iOS. Wants me to use Internet Explorer. Really? Did Microsoft pay for that?...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Exclude Images From WordPress Gallery Display

I wrote this post yesterday which had several images as part of the content. One image was used in a different section of the post, but I wanted to group specific images together to highlight a point I was making.WordPress adds all images uploaded during post creation to a Gallery. Once all the images have been uploaded, you can select the Gallery tab, and insert the gallery right into the post. However, I wanted to exclude one of the images. But there wasn't anything in the image manager that allowed me to exclude an image....
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Simply Design Your Web Site

I visited the io9.com web site today, after getting there from an external link. I've visited this site before, and mostly read stories they publish via RSS. But today, when I landed on the home page, I was frozen. I had no idea what to do. Over the past several weeks I've been working on a project where the initial landing page needs to give the...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

First Use Of Amazon CloudFormation

Amazon recently release a new product called CloudFormation. It’s basically an automated build out of several Amazon AWS products, driven by a simple XML file. One of the templates offered out of the box is for a complete WordPress install. After following the wizard like instructions, I had a basic WordPress installation up and running in a matter...
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Required And Optional Function Parameters

I love using different programming languages. Whether it's C#, PHP, Python or Ruby on Rails, they each have their strengths, which makes finishing projects faster. Choose the best tool for the problem.Today a project I'm working on required an additional parameter to a  Javascript method that was already called in several files. In C# I could write an overload methodUse Overloading in C# versions below 4[csharp]public void MyFunctionA (int par1, int par2){ //some code}public void MyFunctionA (int par1, int par2, string...
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