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FREE Azure Cloud benefits for MSDN subscribers

Posted by Dan on July 22 in How Tos & Tutorials, Microsoft

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres. It provides some incredible possibilities for cloud environments and large (and small) scale web projects. Steve “Planky” Plank gives a brief walkthrough on how MSDN subscribers can correctly set themselves up with the Windows Azure Platform, and a [...]

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How to make a HTML 5 Canvas Picture Gallery

Posted by Dan on July 21 in How Tos & Tutorials

This is a fantastic video which describes how you can use HTML 5′s Canvas to create a picture gallery, as used on Capital FM’s Website. Related Posts:No Related Posts

 
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Embedding Tweets with Blackbird Pie

Posted by Dan on February 10 in How Tos & Tutorials, Twitter

Many blogs will often reference and embed tweets within their articles. Often they do this by simply taking a screenshot of the tweet. However there are some cool tools for embedding the tweets in good old HTML, which brings with it some good benefits; such as maintaining the links and references, enabling visitors to easily [...]

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SSL, put simply.

Posted by Dan on January 30 in How Tos & Tutorials, Web Hosting

SSL and secured connections is vital in our busy online lives and is key to ensuring the integrity of your private information. This is an excellent video from Common Craft and explains in simple terms web site security in a clear way anyone can understand, and a really cool video for educating non-tech literate people [...]

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wp-cron and MultiSite = Headache

Posted by Dan on November 15 in General stuff, How Tos & Tutorials

After making some changes a while ago to how I run the wp-cron on this blog I noticed some odd problems as scheduled posts weren’t being published. This was getting to be a rather frustrating so I decided to debug the problem once and for all and eventually came to the conclusion that under a [...]

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How to: Use Pagination on posts and pages in WordPress

Posted by Dan on November 9 in How Tos & Tutorials

Pagination is when you have a post split into multiple pages which can be particularly useful when posts (or pages) get quite long and splitting the post into pages can help with page load times and be more user friendly when users read through those posts. This is a little known feature of WordPress but [...]

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Top Tips to Protect Yourself on Hot Spots (and from FireSheep)

Posted by Dan on November 7 in How Tos & Tutorials, Top Ten...

Firstly just so we are clear, when I refer to “sniffing” I am not referring to when you need a tissue or in fact anything to do with your nose or smell. It’s a computer term for when someone can “sniff” for information on the network/WiFi you are using. As the data you send and [...]

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How to: Install FireSheep

Posted by Dan on November 3 in How Tos & Tutorials

FireSheep has kicked up one hell of a storm since it was announced, and has made what was once reserved for the hard core geeks easily accessible to everyone, now anyone with 5 minutes can access the social networks and website accounts of the majority of people on the local network or wifi, particularly dangerous [...]

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