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Archive for July, 2009

Email Yourself Detailed 404 Errors from WordPress and Filter with Gmail

One of the first things you learn to do in web devel­op­ment is make sure every­thing works. Do all of your links work cor­rectly? Do all of your images show up? And as your web­site pro­gresses and grows, is some­one link­ing to one of my pages that doesn’t exist any­more? Or are peo­ple look­ing for […]

Free Services Becoming Less Free and Why I Don’t Mind

I fol­low Mark Cuban’s blog and if you can get over the typos and poor gram­mar (not say­ing I’m per­fect) he has some valid points from time to time. He takes a real world busi­ness approach to Inter­net ide­al­ist top­ics like offer­ing every­thing for free. His series of posts a few weeks ago on ‘Free […]

Allowing Gmail + Filters in JavaScript Form Validation

A few weeks ago I learned about a great Gmail fea­ture that allows you to fil­ter your email with per­son­al­ized email addresses using a plus sign. For exam­ple, if you think you’ll be spammed by sign­ing up for some­thing like a forum, you could sign up with the email username+forum@gmail.com and setup a fil­ter to […]