To get longitude and latitude coordinates from Bing Maps, follow these steps: Position the map center on your point of interest Type this into your web browser’s address bar: javascript:map.GetCenter() Hit enter or click an appropriate button to query the address If you are using a browser with a lot of built-in security roadblocks like… Continue reading Get Longitude and Latitude from Bing Maps
Why are craigslist ads flagged flowchart
Today, I made a simple flowchart to describe how and why craigslist ads are flagged and removed. http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1892404/
Classic ASP and Server.GetLastError in IIS7
My classic ASP error logging scripts were dead in the water when I moved them to a Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.0. Some code like this is useful to record errors in a database: dim objErrorInfo, errorStringStr set objErrorInfo = Server.GetLastError errorStringStr = objErrorInfo.File & “, line: ” & objErrorInfo.Line & “, error: “… Continue reading Classic ASP and Server.GetLastError in IIS7
I made a Keyword Multiplier
While revamping a PPC advertising account last week, I discovered the lack of a convenient keyword multiplier. I am sure there is some fancy pants way of combining keyword lists in a spreadsheet application, but I find no fun in writing macros for some piece of software. I installed the Google Adwords desktop editor because… Continue reading I made a Keyword Multiplier
Disguise Email Addresses for online publishing
Disguise your email address or any text with this character obfuscation. This code corey@example.com will show up on a web page as [email protected] You can share your email address without worrying that it will be collected by a spam bot. Enter some plain text Obfuscate Some losers send spam email for a living, and will… Continue reading Disguise Email Addresses for online publishing
Hide posts from WP home page
Hiding posts from showing up on the home page is something I have been thinking about all week. Last night I finally dug into the WP Codex and figured out how to make it happen. Hide WordPress posts from appearing on your home page by adding their post IDs to the following array (where you… Continue reading Hide posts from WP home page
Display WP Post Category without link
Here is a small piece of code that will display the category name of a WordPress post without a hyperlink to the category page. Typically, the category data is retrieved with the_category( ). This function is not useful for manipulating the category name in plain text. Displaying the category in plain text is easy with… Continue reading Display WP Post Category without link
How to: Stop Spam on your MediaWiki website
This past week I deleted a few hundred wiki pages and user accounts from the MediaWiki installation our company uses to track software features and technical issues. Here is how you can stop your public MediaWiki website from becoming the victim of relentless spam bots. Limit exposure My wiki was operating smoothly for about a… Continue reading How to: Stop Spam on your MediaWiki website
How to Block Java user-agents
A variety of user-agents that begin with “Java” are likely visiting your website. Visits providing this type of user-agent are programs created in Java by developers who did not choose to change the default user-agent string value. Here is a list of the Java user-agents I have encountered: Java/1.4.1_04 Java/1.5.0_02 Java/1.5.0_06 Java/1.5.0_14 Java/1.6.0_02 Java/1.6.0_03 Java/1.6.0_04… Continue reading How to Block Java user-agents
WordPress latest twitter sidebar widget
Discontinued! This plugin is dead, details here. I made a WordPress widget to display latest Twitter updates for any Twitter user in a WordPress website’s sidebar. A widget is activated just like a plugin on any “widget ready” theme and can be positioned within the sidebar using the drag and drop Widgets page in the… Continue reading WordPress latest twitter sidebar widget
PHP4 Friendly htmlspecialchars_decode
I needed to use the PHP function htmlspecialchars_decode( ) for a WordPress widget I am making. This function is built into PHP versions 5.1.0 and greater and is used to convert special HTML entities to characters. As defined, htmlspecialchars_decode( ) is the opposite of htmlspecialchars( ). Someone named Thomas commented on the PHP man page… Continue reading PHP4 Friendly htmlspecialchars_decode
WordPress recently updated pages or posts
This WordPress plugin creates a list of links to the most recently updated pages and posts on any WP website. The following image is a screen shot of the widget output. I am running this widget on this website, so forget the screen shot. Look at the sidebar on this page and you will find… Continue reading WordPress recently updated pages or posts