Symbolic links in Windows

Symbolic links can be very useful, but if you are a Windows user, you’ve had to use junction points because there hasn’t been native support for symbolic links until recently. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 now support symbolic links mklink command. See Junfeng Zhang’s write up on the mklink command. For those using Windows [...]

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.1 Released

SMCF 1.1 includes the following changes: Fixed image pre-loading to actually pre-load ;) Added new effects on form open and close Added a security feature Added optional subject and cc sender form elements Added common classes to form elements Renamed all classes and ID’s to prevent collisions Added WordPress translation ability on text elements (__() [...]

Finding files containing a certain value

Searching for files containing a certain string/text/value is something that I do quite often. There are a number of ways to perform a “find files containing ‘foo’” search, but for me, nothing beats the simplicity and power of the command line! In Windows: findstr /s /n /i /p foo * The above example of findstr [...]

Why I hate Gmail

Ok, so I don’t really hate Gmail, but I am pretty annoyed right now. Every time I try to send an email, I get an alert saying “An error occurred trying to send the message”. Despite my best-efforts to follow Gmails TOS, I believe that my account has been disabled…hopefully only temporarily. And here’s why:

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) 1.0 Released

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal dialog contact form for WordPress. The project and all of the information about it is hosted on WordPress.org. If you have any feedback regarding the plugin, please let me know.

Why I love Gmail

I manage 14 different email addresses through one single Gmail account. Any idea how many spam emails I get to those addresses in a 30-day period?

SimpleModal v1.1 Released

There are three new options and the handling of data has been revamped. For more details, including documentation, demos, tests and downloads, visit the project page. I’m finishing up a WordPress plugin based on SimpleModal, which should be ready soon. The Contact link above is powered by the new WordPress plugin.

jQuery bug – Ajax ‘no-cache’ parameter

In jQuery 1.2.1, when using the $.ajax function with cache: false, jQuery appends a parameter with the current timestamp to the URL. This parameter makes the URL unique and therefore prevents subsequent request from being retrieved from the browser cache. However, the code that adds this ‘no-cache’ parameter does not check to see if it [...]

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