Archive for December, 2005

Default Image When Image Does Not Exist

Here’s a problem I came to recently. I developing a site in PHP & using Smarty Templating. I wanted to display thumbnail images for property listings. If the listing didn’t have a thumbnail, I wanted to display a generic image of a house and message that the image was not available.
Among other ideas, the following [...]

December 29, 2005   Posted in: Programming & Internet  Comments Closed

Andrew Hillman is a Comment Spammer

Andrew Hillman is a Comment Spammer. That’s all I have to say about that!

December 20, 2005   Posted in: Web Sites  2 Comments

Firefox Blogging Extension

A cool new blogging extentions has been released for Firefox. In fact, I’m using it now! Check it out at http://performancing.com/node/464.
Before you install it, make sure you have upgraded to Firefox 1.5.

December 20, 2005   Posted in: Programming & Internet  Comments Closed

I can’t believe it!

I went to a large Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Launche event. Thousands were there and guess who won a door prize?!? Me! I chose a little coupon thing so the prizes will be mailed to me. $50 ticketmaster coupon, books, etc. I wish it were an XBOX 360, but beggers can’t be choosers eh?

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December 19, 2005   Posted in: Yada  3 Comments

Gmail Mobile

Nice, now I can use my Gmail account to read email on my pocket pc at nights without having to continually scroll left and right! Thanks again Gmail!

Now you can access your Gmail account from your mobile phone or device. Just point your phone’s web browser to m.gmail.com. Your Gmail account stays synched, whether you [...]

December 16, 2005   Posted in: Web Sites  One Comment

Use You Developing Skills To Earn And Learn

Looking to earn some extra money? Are you wanting to develop your computer or writing skills, but lacking ideas? Then read on to find out exactly how to do both at the same time!
Nerdlance.com is a new feature rich web site that allows entrepreneurs and businesses create projects that they need help with completing. This [...]

December 13, 2005   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  Comments Closed

IImage Browser

First a couple thanks.
1. To Martin ChlupГЎДЌ for creating the IImage Browser plugin.
2. To Darrin for posting a great useful blog on ProBlogger.net.
I installed a few plugins on that list, but so far, I must say my favorite is the IImage Browser plugin.
In the past I would use the standard image upload admin tool [...]

December 5, 2005   Posted in: Programming & Internet  Comments Closed

12 Daily Pro Experiment

In November I decided to give 12dailypro.com a try and sign up. I didn’t really know what it was all about, but I had a friend that told me to join (several times). I told him I would give it a try if he actually had positive results. Well, of course he did, so I [...]

December 5, 2005   Posted in: Web Sites  One Comment