Studio Sedition: Designing with Code

The imagetoolbar meta tag

khadlock — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:24:04 +0000

Here’s an oldie, but a goodie. Remove the pop-up that appears over images in Internet Explorer 6:

Twitter’s API whitelist

khadlock — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:27:56 +0000

One of our product’s BlogToTweet.com has been approved for the Twitter API whitelist, meaning any rate limits no longer apply to authenticated requests made through BlogToTweet.

This was never an issue, but our user base is quickly growing, so we were proactive in achieving whitelist status to prevent any problems from creeping up for our users.

If you use the Twitter API and are wondering how to get approved for the Twitter API whitelist, visit http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting

To learn more about BlogToTweet you can visit our product page at http://www.studiosedition.com/product/BlogToTweet

decompress gz with php

khadlock — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:14:51 +0000

I had a lot of trouble getting zlib to work today with PHP on our Media Temple DV server, but after a lot of testing discovered an easy solution to decompressing/unzipping .gz files.

exec("gunzip Filename.gz", $results);

Once decompressed I can read the file contents using fopen, file_get_contents, etc.

More information on the gzip commands can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip

Remove empty array values in PHP

khadlock — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:51:09 +0000

Here’s a super easy way to remove empty values from an array in PHP:

$a = array_diff($a, array(""));

In a recent project we were reading in a text file and creating an array based on each new line, so we used the same method to remove any new lines that were empty.

$a = array_diff($a, array("\n"));

Custom CSS Signatures

khadlock — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:52:33 +0000

I feel that any form of branding is important, especially when it comes to sending emails. Think about it, how many emails do you send a day? This post has been around for a while, but I often refer to it when designing a new email signature and thought it was worth sharing: http://allforces.com/2006/04/14/css-signatures/ It’s so easy to follow if you use Apple Mail.

Here’s the new one I’m using based on this article: http://www.studiosedition.com/branding/email-signature.html

WordPress RSS feeds

khadlock — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:56:42 +0000

There are numerous built-in RSS feeds available through WordPress that can be added to your theme for visitors to subscribe to, all of which can be found here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds

To get your feed to display as a subscription option in modern browsers, one of the following lines of code can be added to the head of your current theme, or you can add all of the lines of code to provide multiple subscription options.

RSS 0.92 feed

” href=”” />

RSS 2.0 feed

” href=”” />

Atom feed

” href=”” />

MDM Zinc v2.5 Intrinsic Classes

khadlock — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:42:49 +0000

I always misplace the URL to the Intrinsic classes for MDM Zinc, which are required by Flash when publishing AS2 classes that use the MDM library. So, I’m posting them here for myself and any

http://www.multidmedia.com/support/exchange/?action=detail&id=116

My first WordPress blog

khadlock — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:25 +0000

Believe it or not, this is my first WordPress blog, I’ve created themes and plugins, but never used it myself. I’ll post my findings along with my usual code and design examples.