A year ago today I started scriptygoddess as a place to keep notes of things I learned about scripts (javascript, php, etc) and CSS and it’s grown to be so much more. Thanks everyone for making this site the resource that it is.
Just a week or two ago, my friend Kathy was commenting on how she can find MT plug-ins, but she’s a pMachine user and she is often on the lookout for more pMachine Add-Ons. I noticed that Lynda has released a pMachine Add-Ons to display “Today in History” and I thought it would be great to share here too!
PhotoMatt, recent guest author here at ScriptyGoddess, asked for help in naming a new blog software. (New is a relative term, because it is based on b2. Open source code is goooood.) After thinking about it, I suggested “WordPress” - and I am really excited to see that it is coming soon! PHP and MySQL goodness, plus so much more. I can’t wait to test it out!
Mike of WOIFM has written a great post on how to include your copyright license information in your RSS Feed for your site. Great information, and you can read all about it here.
If you need help setting up your RSS feed to be the best on the blog block, you can read about that right here and here on ScriptyGoddess.
Pagination is a great way to show a bunch of data from a MySQL database without showing it all at once. An example: the Picture Yourself sidebar is paginated.
I saw a great overview article at DevShed this morning on this subject. Check out Paginating MySQL Data with PHP. For some Movable Type specific options, this thread (scroll down to the long post by Brenna) is where I started when I was learning to do this. And there’s even an MT plugin called Paginate that I haven’t tried out, but looks like it would be a good tool.
Erika posted that she has a resources page with tons of links to photo sites, clipart sites, fonts sites, script sites, etc.
If you want more, I haven’t compared the lists, but I made a few posts about free photo sites and free font sites a while back (most of the links on those can be found in the comments). And, of course, the end all be all collection of font site links is here
Noticed on GeekGrrl’s site a few posts about how to create a portal. Looks like fun! Here’s a few of the tools that were mentioned: Cheatsheet Creator and the amazing portal generator.
Ok, ok, I debated putting this here, as this really is a *scripting* site, but as anyone who can look to the left can see, I’m too lazy to have my own blog, and I think this is of interest to web users/developers (plus, I think this would probably slip under most people’s radar):
Major changes to mozilla In a major ’bout time move, Mozilla is decoupling its browser & mail components from its Gecko rendering engine. An excellent move, as I have been using Phoenix as my main browser for a while now, and its the goodness of Gecko rendering without the bloat of Mozilla. Not to mention that upgrades to the mail client won’t mean upgrading your entire browser suite.Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve made a ver 2 of that Multi Mini Poll that sets a cookie so you can prevent double votes (within x number of hours) by the same person. (again, beta, not tested a whole lot - use at your own risk/frustration - I’ll try to fix any obvious bugs that come up)
I’ve had to look this up more times than I can count. I think I’ve made a post to link to it, but it’d be easier for me if this was just here. I got this code from Christine who posted it on the Blogomania support forums ages ago. (side note: Those forums are mostly for people who are hosted on Blogomania - but obviously you’re free to peruse the info there)
To make your .htm or .html pages process like they were .php, just add this line to your .htaccess file: