scriptygoddess

Interesting php site: thephpguy.com – found by Sam (my better half) who's too cool to blog. 😉

Matt Haughey has recently converted to using MT and has come up with a way to generate a Winamp playlist for your blog using MT's Trackback feature. Read more about it here. Personally, I would put all of the information in to an include file to keep the rebuilds for your site down to a […]

If you're like me, you get way too much spam. Dive Into Mark offers up a way to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell. Disclaimer: Most of the methods require that you have the ability to modify your .htaccess file. If you are hosted with a free hosting company, […]

When looking for a bug tracker to install on the mt-plugins.org site, David pointed out several open source software packages at Freshmeat.net. There's some *great* stuff over there! We ended up using Mantis — you can check it out and report bugs about plugins and request features by visiting bugs.mt-plugins.org.

Now I'm doing scripts for my parents! LOL! My mother needed a script to display her paintings on a web page. There's not a ton, and she's not technically inclined. Ideally, it would be great if the script created thumbnails on the fly so she can just upload and be done. So rather than write […]

I'm working on a little script where I have to display (or not display) an image based on whether a checkbox is checked… A quick search for something similar (that I could use) revealed this page: The Javascript Goodies Book.

As I learn more about web standards, I've been wanting to gain more info on XHTML. Here's a few good overview sites that I bookmarked lately: WebMonkey's XHTML Overview W3School's XHTML section W3C Markup Validator

Found this cool site tracking software on sourceforge: awstats. I'm hoping to play with it today, so hopefully I'll have an update to this post with my report.

Eric Meyer has a cool new tool/toy on his site — the Color Blender. Enter 2 hex codes and it will give you the colors between it. Very cool!

Thanks to a recent trackback ping from this post on electrosketch.org I found this site: onlinetools.org Among many other cool things, they also have a php counter, and they posted a cool bookmarklet to put a bunch of image info into the "alt" tag, and (this link from electrosketch) a php newsletter manager…