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Comparison of VPS Providers

How do I go about choosing a viable VPS for my websites? This article relates our personal experience dealing with several different service providers so you don’t have to. [...]

Releasing New Versions of your WordPress Plugins

If you are a WordPress plugin developer, then this post is for you. There is very little documentation on how to effectively use the WordPress Subversion repository, and the repo architecture is critically flawed in its structure making “kosher” usage seem entirely buggy. Worse yet, the support in the WordPress forums is practically non-existant. [...]

Basic Web Security

Web security is a huge topic, and this article only intends to cover some of the most basic issues and increase awareness of how carelessness or ignorance can lead to exploits. Ultimately, what you don’t know can hurt you, so it’s in your best interest to learn as much as you can about your [...]

Comparison of Online Email Marketing Companies

If you work on commercial web-sites, eventually you find the need to add email marketing services such as newsletters and special advertisements. The article compares 4 services: Campaign Monitor vs. Constant Contact vs. Mail Chimp vs. Topica in several categories, primarily templating abilities, the usability, and the documentation. This review does not cover the [...]

Writing Custom PHP Snippets for MODx (part VII)

This article and tutorial video takes on how to add custom PHP scripts (known as Snippets) to the MODx content management system. This covers MODx Evolution (version 1.0 and before), but many of these methods and principles are applicable to MODx Revolution (version 2.0) and PHP coding in general.

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Forgot your MODx Password? You can reset it...

I have *cough* never forgotten my password to anything because I followed Brian’s excellent advice about storing passwords, but just in case some of you have, I thought I’d help you out.

If you have access to your MySQL database, you can still log into the MODx manager.

First off, if you are [...]

Do You Know What a Browser Is?

Well, this video explains why we have to bleed out our anus to make CSS sites and HTML emails work with IE and AOL.

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