Frequently, I’m asked to add various and sundry methods of connecting social media to people’s web sites. Today I discovered a page on Facebook which has links to a bunch of their different services:

Facebook Developers

Even though I’m kind of into anti-social networking, this page could prove useful.

We have a client that sends out resumes on behalf of her clients, and needed a way to remove the “Powered by phplist” footer on the emails, because we want to have it look like the resume is coming from her client. So, I found this page that told me how to do it:

Removing “powered by” tagline from phplist – by Wesley Tanaka

PHPList is a great piece of free software and I highly recommend it for sending out newsletters and such. Leaving the “powered by” text gives them some advertising, but in this instance it just wasn’t appropriate to leave it in there. If you find yourself in a similar situation, consider making a donation to the project to compensate.

Do you ever need to send someone a very large file? Email just doesn’t cut it for the big stuff. Here’s a site where you can transfer up to a 2GB file. Neat!

WeTransfer

Here’s a nice little tool which will allow you to take a screen shot and send it to your tech support to show them what your screen looks like.

Show Me What’s Wrong

This is a nice alternative to a program like Log Me In, which allows your tech support person to take control of your computer.

Recently I set up a blog which has a bunch of users who will be posting articles, and I wanted the page which lists the author’s posts to have the author’s name in the link. The solution is to Add User Profile Fields and substitute user_nicename for twitter in the code. Thanks to Change the WordPress Author Archive Permalink by Kyle Eslick for the idea of getting it fixed up!

Today I learned how to embed a Flash video on a web page. It was pretty easy after we converted the WMV file to a Flash video (.flv). The key was to get a Flash player for the web site, which we found here:

Flowplayer.org

It’s a free, open-source package which makes it simple to embed Flash movies on your web site. I was impressed with how quickly we got the video up and going. It involved adding a javascript file and then a call to the player:


<script type="text/javascript" src="flowplayer-3.1.4.min.js"></script>
<a href="Galapagos-3m-30-full.flv" style="display:block;width:450px;height:330px" id="player">
</a>
<script>
flowplayer("player", "flowplayer-3.1.5.swf");
</script>

That was it! Nice and easy. Thanks to Boutell.com for pointing me in the right direction.

Warning: Hardcore geek stuff ahead! Ok, it’s not that bad, but it is very technical and of interest mainly to programmers.

One of the most powerful tools a programmer has is regular expressions… small bits of code that can examine a string and pull out all sorts of information. Here’s a tutorial on eight of the expressions every programmer should know:

8 Regular Expressions You Should Know – from nettuts+

I like how they color code the expression and explain what each part does. It really makes it easy to understand.

I’ve always had a problem with getting tables to center properly while creating valid code. The Site Wizard has come to the rescue! Here he shares an article on how to do it, with a workaround for Internet Explorer:

How To Centre a Table – from The Site Wizard

The title refers to Nvu and Komposer (two popular web page editing tools) but you should be able to follow along no matter what editor you’re using.

For all of you database nuts out there…

Exploits of a Mom

Thanks goes out to Bleys for this little tidbit.

Here’s a really neat site where you can load an image and get a color scheme from the colors in the image. Way cool!

colr.org