Word 2007 macros for converting symbols to HTML entities

A few Word macros that will replace the symbols commonly found in documents with html entities.

Aleph Studios Is Launched

I’m excited to announce a new site of mine – Aleph Studios – which will be the new home for my web development freelance work.

HTML auction template generator

Simple Auction Wizard is an online HTML template generator for auction websites like eBay. It’s fast, free, and easy to use.

Broadway 2 + Lightbox: a Plogger theme

A dark Plogger theme that uses Lightbox 2.

Resolving transaction concurrency issues in a PHP+MySQL multi-user environment

Here’s how I’m implementing my solution to the lost update concurrency issue by comparing timestamps generated when a record is saved and accessed.

Correcting for line descent in Firefox

I was working on a theme for the image gallery Plogger when an old problem cropped up again. I was adding links to thumbnail images, and had given the anchor a padding of 3 pixels and a 1 pixel border so that the link formed a sort of picture frame around the image. [...]

Defeating contact form spam by hiding the webmail script

My clients and I have been receiving increasing amounts of spam sent through our own contact forms. Not being a spammer myself, I’m left to speculate on how one sends spam through a webmail form, but I’ve come up with two ways of preventing it from happening. Both of these methods involve editing [...]

Plogger 3 theme: Air

Air is a full-featured Plogger 3 stand alone theme that takes visual cues from the Yahoo! TV beta of mid 2007. The theme files validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict (while Plogger itself is either Strict or Transitional, depending on some options). The theme looks nearly identical in Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7, [...]

Halo 3 Service Record WordPress Plugin

This plugin allows you to add information from your Halo 3 Service Record to your WordPress blog.

Apricot – A Minimalist WordPress Theme

Apricot is a text-heavy and graphic-light, widget- and tag-supporting minimalist WordPress theme built on a Kubrick foundation. Apricot validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and uses valid CSS. It natively supports the excellent Other Posts From Cat and the_excerpt Reloaded plugins, should you want to install them.
WordPress version 2.3 introduces native support for ‘tags’, [...]