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I was recently made aware of a couple of plugin thieves who have taken my code, rebranded it as their own (calling it AmazonPress), redirected the tip to themselves, and made it mandatory rather than optional with no notice to the website owner. In my opinion this constitutes theft from both myself as well as their clients/victims. By not giving credit to me as the original author they are also in violation of the terms of the GPL.
From their site: “We have been online for about 4 years now, we decided to jump in and create an open source plugin for wordpress, it seems there is a need for an amazon plugin that actually works properly, so we decided to go ahead and develop one. Soon to come we will be creating new and awesome plugins.”
If you’re a plugin developer, you better watch out because they might be “creating” your plugin next! If you already use their plugin, you may want to consider another option as they are stealing your commissions without your knowledge or consent. May I recommend the original AmazonFeed?
Recently, both the Aptana and Eclipse IDE’s have been giving me mouse clicking problems but I finally found the solution. To fix the problem you will need to do the following:
- Create a new empty file called aptana.sh that you will use to launch Aptana. I store my install of Aptana in /home/username/Applications/aptana so I created the launch script in /home/username/Applications/aptana.sh.
- Put the following code in the empty file and save it. It will become what is called a wrapper script for launching the Aptana application. Change the paths to match your environment.
#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/home/username/Applications/aptana/AptanaStudio
- Make the script executable. You can do this by right-clicking it in gnome and selecting Properties -> Permissions -> Allow executing file as program. For the purists: chmod +x /home/username/Applications/aptana.sh
- Create a launch script. For the sake of simplicity, I create a launch script for it on my desktop by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Create Launcher.
Name: Aptana
Command: /home/username/applications/aptana.sh (browse to and select the script you created)
You should be able to use a very similar setup to fix mouse clicks in Eclipse as well. Just change the paths and filenames where appropriate. Keep in mind that the application for Aptana is called AptanaStudio whereas in Eclipse it is simply called eclipse.
You can now test your script by double clicking the launcher or running the shell script you created. The mouse clicking problems should be fixed.
I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of people visiting this site who know very little about the whole process of setting up a good website. I’m sure there are many who are intimidated by the process, as well as those who simply haven’t due to the apparent exorbitant prices of doing so.
I want you to know that setting up and maintaining a website does not have to be either difficult or excessively expensive. In fact, you can do it for under $11 / month. The only thing that might be confusing to some is simply terminology and I’ll do my best in this lesson to explain what things are as well as how they work.
When it comes right down to it, there are three simple aspects to creating a website.
1. You need something called “HOSTING”.
HOSTING is simply the word that we use to refer to where your website is stored. We will use the analogy of a house. In this analogy, your HOSTING provider is sort of like your house. You can put things INTO your house… and people can come TO your house to see the things that you have on display.
When you get HOSTING, you receive something like an address. Just as with a real house, this address indicates to other people where they can find your website. Now, unfortunately, this address can be complicated at times. Usually, it is in the form of a number something like 192.168.125.57. Sometimes, you may not have a specific number at all, so using this address can be fairly complicated for people. That’s why we get the next item on the list called a “DOMAIN”.
This website, for example, is hosted at DreamHost. They’re a company down in California which specializes in HOSTING and they’re both good and inexpensive. In fact, we very highly recommend them. For under $10 / month, they provide everything that we need to run this website, and they make it VERY easy to use. Check out DreamHost if you’re looking for somewhere good to host your websites.
We also have HOSTING COUPONS for $50 OFF. Click for more info.
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As owner and author of this blog, I would like to take a little time to introduce myself and give some background on what it is that I do. My name is James Warkentin and I work as a full time PHP programmer at a non-profit ministry in Canada called TruthMedia. TruthMedia is part of a larger non-profit organization called Campus Crusade for Christ.
Campus Crusade for Christ is a Christian organization which works to bring hope to hurting people around the world. We do this in a number of ways, including sharing the good news that Jesus Christ has saved each one of us from our sins. Campus Crusade also works with a number of other agencies including the “Global Aid Network”, providing relief supplies to countries dealing with local crises, and assisting with projects that promote sustainable development.
As one of the main developers of Campus Crusade’s Internet presence, TruthMedia seeks to bring the same message of hope to hurting people on the Internet.
We build online communities where the message of Jesus’ salvation is shared, and spiritual growth takes place. Activities include evangelistic websites, spiritual chat rooms, training online mentors, and support for other groups wanting to develop their own Internet ministry. (www.crusade.org)
Because of the fact that TruthMedia is non-profit, I am required to raise all the costs associated with my employment there as tax deductible donations from people who want to support the work that we do. These costs include things like my salary, medical benefits and any other costs associated with being an employee.
In light of that, part of my job involves going to people and asking them to consider helping to support me in this ministry. I would like to do that here. If you would be willing to consider helping me financially in this ministry, I would LOVE to talk to you more about it. Feel free to email me through the contact form on this site with your thoughts or questions. OR, if you would like to donate directly to my ministry, feel free to do so using one of the following links:
Please choose the donation link which pertains to your location. Doing this will allow you to receive a tax deductible receipt for the appropriate country.
Thank you so much for your consideration of me in this ministry.
Have a great day,
James Warkentin
You may have noticed that over the last few hours this site has been up and down. This has been due to problems with our web host and a planned outage which took some wrong turns, ending up longer than expected. If you can read this, you’re one of the lucky ones who got through.
Have a good one,
the Blog Admin.
This little clip has been around for a while, but it’s still a great demonstration of what NOT to put on your website. Courtesy of http://www.homestarrunner.com/
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So you want to build a website, and you’ve heard about website hosting, but you’re not sure what it’s all about. This tutorial is for you!
Simply put, your website host is the company or person who stores your website, and makes it available to be viewed on the internet. This person usually has a computer that stays connected to the internet, and is set up to allow people to come and browse through the information that you have placed on your website.
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A key component in building and maintaining a successful website is the ability to keep track of how many visitors are coming to your website. You want to know where they are coming from, and which pages they are looking at and finding most useful.
Often, in order to keep track of these traffic statistics a webmaster will use some sort of script or program which monitors visitors and creates reports based on their needs. These scripts can range in size and complexity from a simple hit counter on a page, to a fully integrated data-mining application. They can also range in price from free unsupported scripts, to thousands of dollars for an integrated system. In many cases though, the first option is relatively useless, and the second is unnecessary (and usually outside of the budget). As is true with many things in life, the best solution is usually somewhere in between.
So what does a good traffic or website statistic monitering system require?
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Welcome to our brand new (redesigned) website. Our goal here is to provide webmasters with tips, ideas and strategies, helping them to build better websites.
Here you will find tips on CSS coding, search engine optimization strategies, ideas for website designs and other great webmaster tools. We want to help you be more efficient as a website designer and give you the tools you need to create your masterpieces.
We will be adding new design ideas regularly, so you may want to bookmark this portion of the site to come back often.
If you’re new here, feel free to introduce yourself to us in the comments area below this post.
