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Snap! Website ($19.99/mo, first month is free!)

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:40:50 +0000

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Snap! is the most advanced, business quality Web 2.0 hosting service available. Snap!, powerful Content Management System (CMS), is easy to use and gives you peace of mind.

More and more, web hosting companies offer CMS systems to their customers. The US, French and German governments and many large businesses chose the same CMS as us. It gives you the ability to build a complete website in minutes and gives you full control of your content right from the start.

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gVim editor in SeaMonkey and FireFox

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:20:38 +0000

Today I discovered It's All Text. This is a FireFox (also works in SeaMonkey) extension that gives you the capability of editing a box of text in your favorite editor.

I love to use SeaMonkey, but the text editor is a bit light when it comes to writing code or fix broken HTML. To palliate to this problem, I often copy and paste the content of my posts from SeaMonkey to gVim, my favorite editor, apply the fixes lightning fast, and then copy the result back in SeaMonkey before saving.

This is a rather tedious process and prone to mistakes. To avoid problems, you can instead install ...

Remote Blogging

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:10:12 +0000

Introduction

Snap! Blog Lite and Snap! Blog Pro support remote blogging.

Remote blogging is composed of two parts:

A blog that lets your editor connect to send new posts
A blogging client (i.e. an editor) running on your computer

Snap! Blogger is such a blog and it works with different editors as listed below.

Available Editors

ScribeFire is a FireFox plug-in. It works under MS-Windows, Mac OS/X and Linux.

BlogJet is a standalone editor for MS-Windows.

BlogDesk is a standalone editor that runs under MS-Windows.

Ecto is a standalone editor that runs under Mac ...

MO Anti-pounding for Drupal

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:58:39 +0000

$195.00

MO Anti-pounding helps you prevent heavy hammering of your websites from robots and individuals by catching and banning them before the Drupal database is accessed. Use this module to prevent a large amount of your resources from being eaten up by malicious users.

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About SWF

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:53:32 +0000

Brief History

At the very beginning, a company created the SWF format to generate small vector animations on the Internet called Shockwave Flash (hence the name of the format, SWF.) It also included images. This company was bought by Macromedia around 1997 (if I recall properly). This is when Flash v3 was created. Since then, Macromedia created a new version about once a year up to version 8. At that time (in 2005/2006), Macromedia sealed a deal with Adobe which wanted to use the SWF format in their PDF files.

Business Solutions

Alexis Wilke — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:22:22 +0000

CRM and ERP solutions

At Made to Order Software we think that using Open Source software is an incredible leverage for our customers. Plain and simple: if the software is free, you do not need to pay for it. You only need to pay us for installing the software and training you on how to use it.

We currently offer three solutions: Compiere ERP & CRM, SugarCRM and X-Tuple ERP.

Internet Explorer “Save As …”

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:25:00 +0000

Today, I found a good one. Internet Explorer has a “Save As …” feature that let you save a page that you are visiting.

The page I have includes a table with a cell that has the align and valign attributes set to center and middle respectively. Once saved with Internet Explorer, these change to vAlign and align and center and middle respectively. Yes. Meaning that the values are swapped. Now the valign says center instead of middle, which will work with most browsers, but the worst is the align that is set to middle. That should never happen.

One document with all translations

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Have you ever thought that it would be great to write one document including all the translations in a single file? Outside of the fact that this makes the document relatively large, it makes the translation really fast, the translator can see the sentence in all the other languages and translate from that.

I actually wrote an HTML test file with two styles. One is named English and the other is named Français. And since a style entry can depend on the currently selected language, you can write style entries that get hidden when on or the other language is selected.

So, if you ...

AJAX, CSS, HTML, XML, SOAP, LAMP… and now Web 2.0?

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:25:00 +0000

Dear reader,

Yes. With all these terms, it is quite easy to get lost.

As a developer, my skills are quite extensive. I started with Logo, learned assembly language, BASIC, C, C++… and all these other languages in between, those that most people pass by such as Ada, Eiffel, Icon… And the languages you kind of have to learn because you’re in it: Bourne Shell, configuration files for 100 different software, Makefile, etc.

And once you know all of these languages, you think you’re done. Well… Not quite!

The web has got it’s own set of languages! It