HP Photosmart 3310 "No Scan Options" & Cannot Scan

27 Dec 2009

A solution after researching issues with scanning and receiving the above errors when attempting to scan over a wireless network.

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IE6: It's not just because of companies!

09 Oct 2009

I’m absolutely sick and tired of hearing about how we’re stuck with Internet Explorer 6, because of corporate environments that don’t permit upgrades to a non web standards browser. There’s no hard evidence supporting this, so I’ve investigated some of the other routes by which Internet Explorer 6 is still permitted to live.

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Facebook, Twitter, API Developers – who's sharing my data?

26 Aug 2009

There appears to be a recent trend with several Facebook friend suggestions appearing shortly after those same people follow me on Twitter. I discuss how this might be happening, and perhaps there’s more than meets the eye.

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Contact Form 7 404 Error – Wordpress Plugin

16 Jul 2009

We’ve used the popular Contact Form 7 plugin for Wordpress for most of our Wordpress projects. It allows you to define multiple forms, with custom fields – ideal for longer or more complex contact / enquiry forms.

On one site, we encountered an issue where Wordpress would return a 404 error when submitting the form – although we’d still get the email containing the form information. We’d configured Contact Form 7 with a single form, called “Contact”. The code used to insert it into the Contact page was [contact-form 1 "contact"].

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50% Upfront for a Web Site?

15 Jul 2009

Whether you’ve a designer, developer or client, it’s likely that you’ve agreed a deposit of 50% before work begins. This makes some financial and business sense; the designer / developer needs your financial assurance that you want to go ahead with the agreed project, and the client need the security that they’re going to see something in return for that investment, meaning the client will then pay the rest.

But why 50%?

We discuss our alternative payment schedule, and how it’s worked for us.

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jQuery: Validate FCKEditor using jQuery

07 Mar 2009

Validate FCKEditor using jQuery, thanks to this small jQuery Plugin.

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