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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

By Chris | Published: May 2, 2010
[cb.com] : Smash­ing post on CSS 3 Options for Inter­net Explorer http://bit.ly/brKiSU # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Ftwitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-05-02%2F'; addthis_title = 'Twitter+Weekly+Updates+for+2010-05-02'; addthis_pub = '';
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18

By Chris | Published: April 18, 2010
Look­ing for a bril­liant + great small web design firm, who wants to hire a bril­liant + great jQuery/WordPress coder / CSS/HTML slicer (me) # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Ftwitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-04-18%2F'; addthis_title = 'Twitter+Weekly+Updates+for+2010-04-18'; addthis_pub = '';
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How to link virtual (local ‘faked’) domains on Mac OS X to a Parralels Virtual Machine

By Chris | Published: March 22, 2010
I develop lots of web­sites on a vir­tual server on my Mac. I have a hosts file con­fig­ured to inter­pret lots of dif­fer­ent domains locally, e.g., 127.0.0.1 mydomain.local 127.0.0.1 my-other-domain.local etc., etc., I wanted IE within Par­ralels to also inter­pret these, but it does not recoginize local­host, or 127.0.0.1 the same. But thanks to a few sug­ges­tions here, I fig­ured it out. Credit to [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20

By Chris | Published: December 20, 2009
Don’t Aban­don the Pub­lic Option!: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/535664121 # http://twitpic.com/tk0ax — A pretty cute 404 page. # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Ftwitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-12-20%2F'; addthis_title = 'Twitter+Weekly+Updates+for+2009-12-20'; addthis_pub = '';
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

By Chris | Published: December 13, 2009
Some­times clients are cryp­tic. # A nice post sum­ma­riz­ing Word­Press pre­mium theme sites: http://bit.ly/4XsZFt # New Cowork­ing Space Roundup, http://bit.ly/6SzlOf # Ooh, it’s a free online reg­u­lar expres­sion test­ing tool. http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ # http://www.wpquestions.com/. # RT @dhstatus: (DreamHost) Net­work Out­age. Yep. # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Ftwitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-12-13%2F'; addthis_title = 'Twitter+Weekly+Updates+for+2009-12-13'; addthis_pub [...]
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A Summary of WordPress Security Posts

By Chris | Published: December 10, 2009
A recent mass-hacking at Medi­aTem­ple has high­lighted the fact that Word­Press instal­la­tions can be vul­ner­a­ble, and as Word­Press gets ever-more pop­u­lar, it becomes a big­ger deal to keep your site secure. Here’s a sum­mary of some good posts and things to do. Now, exactly how much of this you really have to do, I don’t know. And, [...]
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A (now) open letter to Bookfresh

By Chris | Published: December 7, 2009
Book­fresh (www.bookfresh.com) is a great online sys­tem for allow­ing clients, or poten­tial clients, to book time with you, with­out your hav­ing to undergo a tir­ing back-and-forth, or oth­er­wise waste each other’s time sched­ul­ing an appoint­ment. It is a beau­ti­fully designed, intel­li­gent system. How­ever, I have had some real issues with it, and after many months, I [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

By Chris | Published: December 6, 2009
Bizarre. Rod­ney Allen Rippy, famous child star 4 Jack in the Box, has a site try­ing 2 make $ on intl call­ing cards. http://bit.ly/8kSZ4b # jQuery has spawned a whole mini-industry, and what’s inter­est­ing is it’s ess Javascript, + a good UI. Give JS a good UI, and it changes e/th # Oooh, Hack­Book video, http://bit.ly/7Jfj9 # Green [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

By Chris | Published: December 6, 2009
Bizarre. Rod­ney Allen Rippy, famous child star 4 Jack in the Box, has a site try­ing 2 make $ on intl call­ing cards. http://bit.ly/8kSZ4b # jQuery has spawned a whole mini-industry, and what’s inter­est­ing is it’s ess Javascript, + a good UI. Give JS a good UI, and it changes e/th # Oooh, Hack­Book video, http://bit.ly/7Jfj9 # Green [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06

By Chris | Published: December 6, 2009
Bizarre. Rod­ney Allen Rippy, famous child star 4 Jack in the Box, has a site try­ing 2 make $ on intl call­ing cards. http://bit.ly/8kSZ4b # jQuery has spawned a whole mini-industry, and what’s inter­est­ing is it’s ess Javascript, + a good UI. Give JS a good UI, and it changes e/th # Oooh, Hack­Book video, http://bit.ly/7Jfj9 # Green [...]
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