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I recently got an email from someone with an email address from @vminteractive.co.uk looking to guest post on a website. I deal with this as I always do and I ended up deciding not to publish the guest post because it was badly written and spammy. Some time passed and I didn't think any more…
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I recently got a large email from a site called brain-fold where they sent me a large list of fake problems they detected on a blog that I run. I was so annoyed by it that it inspired me to create this new series of blog posts. If you work for this website, well done,…
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The HTML 5 Canvas has to be one of the coolest features that has been introduced in quite some time. Solid and well built, it makes image editing and modification such a breeze compared to the javascript-based tools we had in the past. There are bound to be some useful wrapper libraries out there that…
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With the widespread popularity of Nuget, there is a package for everything in C#. Parsing CSVs are no exception, but this feels like overkill. Parsing a csv, tsv or any value separated file in C# is not complicated and can be done very easily by simply breaking up the string. It takes a little more…
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When you are setting up a website, you will need to decide whether to use the www. subdomain at the start of the URL. It was once the standard but it is getting more common to see websites that do not use it at all. Whichever you decide, the key thing to know is you…
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CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. For most scenarios, what it does is let you use Javascript to make HTTP requests to a different domain. It is a very important security feature but is a useful thing to enable if you have the need for it. This guide will show you how to enable it…
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reCaptcha is a smart captcha system that will help prevent spammers from submitting junk data using forms on your website. The system works very well and is relatively simple to implement. This guide will show you how to setup and configure reCaptcha with PHP. In order to set up reCaptcha, you will need to register…
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This should be a relatively simple task to achieve in most scenarios, there are circumstances where it is not. This guide will show you what you need to do to make custom meta boxes appear above the default WordPress editor in the admin area. When you are adding a new meta box to the post…
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By default, the page post type in wordpress will not have comments enabled. Chances are your theme already has support for them, so it should be a simple case of editing the page within the Wordpress admin area to fix. Here is how to enable comments for pages in Wordpress. Go to the pages section…
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Performing analysis on content that a user is typing is a common requirement for interfaces. A simple word counter, for example, will need to bind to an event so that it can scan the text when the user has modified the data. There are ways to do this using jQuery, but what if you want…