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Tag Archives: Misc Web Design
Translate Your Error Messages in Your Zend Framework Controllers
I’ve been making a push to have more of my projects multi-lingual. However, one thing I kept forgetting about was those super-rare error messages that have to come from the Controller. For the most part, all of your errors should … Continue reading
When you Create Your Account, Please log in.
I’ve always found it annoying when programmers create systems where you create your account and then you’re not logged in. Maybe I’m lazy? I decided to do a poll on a popular social networking site. The poll went like this: … Continue reading
Mailchimp Overview Presentation: Waukesha Area Internet Marketing Meetup
I will be presenting at the WAIMM Email Marketing Software meetup today. I plan to cover the basics of Mailchimp for comparison to other services like Constant Contact. Download the presentation powerpoint here: Mailchimp Overview Presentation
Why IP Authorization No Longer Works on Web Apps
The last time someone brought up authorizing certain actions by IP address – or I should say, limiting the amount of actions that can happen by one IP address. I brushed that off without a second thought. It didn’t occur … Continue reading
A faster alternative to image beacons with 1×1 gif
So it seems like a very common solution for tracking hit rates is the transparent 1×1 pixel gif. Load this and parse your access logs: requests logged. The problem I have with this is two fold: a) it sends a … Continue reading
PHP Doc for non declared properties in your class
You may find while working with projects like Zend Framework that you have a number of publicly available properties of your classes that are not defined and documented. They might be part of a getter/setter magic method or just purely … Continue reading
Facebook connect: An unknown error occurred. – but why??
I had been working with the facebook connect javascript API on one site and transferred over the code to another site. I changed the app ID and clicked connect. Every time I got a popup saying an unknown error occurred … Continue reading
To WWW or not to WWW
I run into this question a lot. Should my website have www in the domain name. Should I be going to aaronsaray.com or www.aaronsaray.com?? That is to say, which should be the default home page domain? Let’s discuss… Take care … Continue reading
My Meetmeme card
I received a set of cards from meetmeme.com. In addition to my cards, they also provide the following URL: http://mtme.me/c89ab I thought this was a pretty cool idea but with two problems: a) My tweet count was wayyyy off when … Continue reading
Fix: FirePHP not showing output in console in Firebug
When using FirePHP, I ran into this issue where I could not see the output of the debug information. All the documents I found kept suggesting that I had not enabled the Console tab for this particular site. I had … Continue reading