PHP

Creating a Delicious Submission Link in PHP

Creating a Delicious (del.icio.us) submission link is similar to Digg's, with the exception of the page title that can be sent to Delicious, which is not required, but you'll save the users from having to Read More ›

PHP

Creating a Digg Submission Link in PHP

Creating a Digg submission link in PHP is easy since all the parameters Digg expects are included in the URL. Digg like most other social bookmarking tools does not allow complete automation of submissions. It Read More ›

Productivity Tools

Hiding Windows With Minime

If you are like me you probably have windows scattered all over your screen, and finding one of them using the taskbar is very daunting. Enter Minime, a small Windows utility that allows you to Read More ›

PHP · WordPress

Customizing the AddThis WordPress Plugin

My favorite WordPress plugin for bookmarking/sharing is AddThis. It looks good and provides comprehensive statistics. But unlike Shareaholic's SexyBookmarks plugin, which allows you to display any number of the available services (bookmarking or sharing sites Read More ›

Interesting Links

How Secure is my Password?

HowSecureIsMyPassword.net is a site for checking the strength of passwords in a simple and fun way. The strength is not shown in the conventional progress bar, but in very descriptive sentences. Read More ›

WordPress

Creating a New Page Template for a WordPress Theme

Page templates in a WordPress theme define how the page using it is displayed. Nowadays most themes provide more than one page template. As an example the Twenty Ten theme that comes with WordPress 3.0 Read More ›

WinForms

Displaying an Image Without Locking its File

The PictureBox control is one of the most used controls in Windows Forms applications. And sometimes you might want to delete the image file that is displayed on it. Doing so with an image displayed using the Image.FromFile function will result in a file locked exception. Read More ›

WinForms

Opening a File With its Default Program

The ability to redirect URLs in PHP can be very handy. A common use of redirects is when a page has become obsolete and you would like to redirect the user to a more current one. Affiliate marketers use URL redirection to point to their products. This way when the product they are marketing is no longer sold they point their URLs to another similar product and keep their landing pages functional. Read More ›

Web Development

Creating Your Own URL Shortening Service With YOURLS

YOURLS (stands for Your Own URL Shortener) is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to create your own URL shortening service. Like most scripts its requirements Apache with Mod_Rewrite, PHP and MySQL which Read More ›

Interesting Links

3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites

As a web developer and blogger I'm always looking for affordable photos and illustrations to use in CodeHill and the other websites I work on. I've been using these three stock photography websites for a Read More ›