Shawn Donley’s BLOG

For the past year or so, I have been using Facebook pretty heavy instead of this person blog. Don’t know the trends on this out there. Do people really use blogs like they did in the past with all of the social networking options? I probably should take some time to do a little research on that… but hey… Who really has the time?

It is amazing though to see how much spam this generates. How many people really have no life and just think that I’m going to allow them to post advertisements for casinos or Viagra…

Well, I guess this is it for now. Getting back to a project I have been working on for a few weeks now. Almost to a point where I can just release it for now then come back to it.

Oh well…

 Amazing that when I came back and looked this post over.  It has been over 2 years since the last post.  I guess if I am going to keep it, I better start using it more.

Article by Matt McGee

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Sometimes it is just easier to add to your blog when you are off-line or using other applications than the ones that are supplied with your on-line blog editor.

I found myself looking into this while I was researching my new web project and wanted to keep track of some of the research that I was doing without filling up my Favorites… again.

Well here is a cool little - FREE - Utility that you can use to modify your blog. The COOL part about it is you can configure all of your Blogs and post to multiples at once.

It’s called BlogDesk. Here is a quote from their site and a link…

Blogging should be simple, but it gets complicated and time-consuming if you are serious about it. BlogDesk makes it easy to write, speeds up lavish processes and assists the author with smart features.

http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm

http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/wordpress/wordpress-customization/

As a PHP programmer, dealing with syntax errors is almost as important as breathing… and when a host takes away the ability to view these errors for “SECURITY REASONS” then… wow it sucks. Trying to go through the code to find an error… again… just sucks.

So I hit the old trusty net looking for a resolution to fix my situation. After several lame attempts that didn’t work… I came across the following. Of course you need to have access to modify your .htaccess file, but hey… works sweet for me.

http://www.blizzard-media.com/hosting/question/id/6.html

You have to love this site. Well, at least I do, it has saved me so many times, I have lost track. I’m posting this just to get to it quickly…

The link below is to a table on W3Schools.com that provides a list of the color names that are supported by all major browsers.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colornames.asp