Greylisting
My web and email host has been upgrading their junk email filtering offerings and the difference is nothing short of phenomenal.
astormCategory: Uncategorized
Below you'll find all the Uncategorized articles on the site, followed by a chronological listing of the same. You may also browse the 8 series directly via the following links. Miscellaneous Magento Articles, SugarCRM for PHP MVC Developers, Magento 2: Advanced Javascript, Magento 2 UI Components, Accelerated Mobile Pages, Pestle, Sylius for Magento and PHP Developers, and, Containers, Containers, Containers.
RSS Links Fixed
Links in the RSS feed for alanstorm.com have been fixed. Sorry about that, the QA department has been sacked.
astorm“Smart Quotes”
I finally got around to integrating the excelent “SmartyPants” plug-in with this website. Since I use a PHP CMS I hacked together myself, i wrote a little wrapper class for the perl script. If you’re into that kind of thing, the code
astormGoogle are S-M-R-T
Google recently introducted another little browser toolbar widget called Web Accelerator. When you go to a page, the Web Accelerator will look at links on the page and, under certain conditions, start downloading the linked pages automatically in the background. Then, if you click
astormMacromedia and Adobe
Unless you live under a rock (or, you know, don't work in the Design and/or Web field), you've already heard about Adobe's plans to buy Macromedia.
astormWhen to Buy a Site
Good post over at Webmaster World on when/how to buy a site (from a business standpoint).
astormThe Dilemma of Advertising
I decided to run AdSense ads on “my” USGS site for two reasons. The first is an Internet classic, “Defray the Cost of Hosting”. The second was getting to know AdSense, since it’s the defacto standard when it comes to ad
astormApple Store
Looks like Rochester is getting an Apple Store, if this monster listing for a "Mac Genius" at Eastview Mall is to be believed.
astormNext Time, I’ll Pay Attention
Your IP Adress is: An older feature, disabled in this age of rugged, clumsy CMS systems.
astormApplescript Eval
The eval feature found in many modern scripting languages is noticeably absent from Applescript. It has the do script command, but because of Applescript’s screwy (to me) scoping, you can’t call user defined functions from within the do script string.
astormGoogle Maps
Despite the fact that the Google developers were too lazy to make it work in Safari, the new Beta of Google Maps is really nice. (Firefox/IE/maybe Opera only).
astormUSGS photography
I'm testing out some framework scripts with a new project. Lots of public domain photography to do with what you will. Have fun, and let me know if you manage to break anything.
astormOS X Routine Maintenance
One of the great things about OS X is it's based on the rock solid BSD operating system.
astormApple Hardware Installation instructions
A very useful Apple support page that gives detailed instructions (PDF and Quicktime movies) of how to install certain hardware elements on your Mac.
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