Archive for October, 2009
Big Changes to the Facebook Platform
Posted on October 29, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Last night, during a webcast, Facebook announced some upcoming significant changes to the Facebook platform. Most are good, a few may be frustrating, but here they are. These changes will start to be rolled out in November & December and will continue into the first and second quarter of 2010.
Awesome Gift Guide for the Geeks in Your Life
Posted on October 24, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
If you’re a non-geek, trying to shop for the geeks in your life can be daunting, but we’re here to help! While there are different kinds of geeks, we assure you that buying any of this stuff as gifts for your favorite geek will definitely give you a charisma point bonus and earn you some [...]
Trying Out Disqus
Posted on October 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I’ve decided to move the comment system on Snipe.Net over to Disqus. I like it so far, but I’ve run into a few glitches and challenges that I thought I’d share with you. (Also, it explains why things may look funny here for a few days while I work out the display kinks.)
Twitter launches groups in BETA for some users
Posted on October 18, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools
In what seemed out-of-left field, when I logged onto the Twitter website early this morning, I was greeted with a notification of new list functionality being introduced in beta.
Extending Facebook Static FBML Tabs with Dynamic Content
Posted on October 17, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
This tutorial walks you through how to use DynamicFBML to do simple content replacement that will allow you to fit more content into your tabs. You can create image or video galleries, or even an entire micro-site inside your Static FBML tab without a lot of complicated scripting.
The Geek Pumpkin Roundup
Posted on October 11, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
Think you’re a rock-star with mushy, vaguely head-shaped vegetables and a knife? Think again – these pumpkin carvings will blow your mind. (I was going to call this post “The Great Cutter Roundup”, but I was afraid it would draw a bunch of emo gloom-cookies.
A Few of My Favorite Things Redux
Posted on October 10, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Humor
While I find websites every day that make me laugh, there are a few that always seem to deliver. Some of the are older, some are newer, but I love and cherish every one of them and would hug each of their creators for making my world better through their sarcasm and pointing out other [...]
Funky characters in HTML mail using PHPMailer
Posted on October 10, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
While working on a client project, I ended up having to send HTML email notifications to users. During testing, I discovered some stray characters at the beginning of the email.
Mindless Self-Indulgence
Posted on October 3, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Music
…also known as the best thing evar. I don’t normally post such self-indulgent fare on this site (that’s what Twitter is for!), but this was just too good, and I adore this artist enough that it gives me another excuse to pimp him out.
