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Photoshop Project: Decorative Frame
Download: One of my recent projects was to create a cozy, decorative frame for a jewelry site. The outcome is visible here. Painting it in Photoshop was easy, as I tried to be original. The final version has a grunge layer applied to the frame, and some noise applied to the content image.
Amazon S3 Guide
Here is a quick tip about finding your AWS Security Credentials to access your Amazon AWS S3 simple storage to create buckets. (Buckets are folders to store your files such as images, videos in Amazon Simple Storage). Step 1: Go to Amazon Web Services web site and click on the Account tab and Security Credentials Link as shown in the...
WordPress Jobs Plugin: Premium Jobbin
From a rushed release to a refined plugin! Get Jobbin now and turn your WordPress installation into a real job board. The new 0.2.2 version brings an application form and many UI tweaks for better usage and general accessibility. Two years ago, I needed a job plugin, and there was only one free plugin for WordPress. I did the job...
WordPress and phpMyAdmin: Database Management
EDIT: WordPress.org plugin usage statistics shows the following chart: All users are strongly encouraged to update to the latest version (1.2.7 at the moment of writing this post). The code is cleaner, there is more information regarding MySQL and the phpMyAdmin codebase gets cleaned up and updated for speed, performance and HTML validity. Running inside an IFRAME inside WordPress, it...
PHP/MySQL Date and Time Notes
I’ve always sucked at date/time calculations using PHP or MySQL. This changed a while ago when I broke the ice with a Facebook-style function for calculating time diferrence in a friendly way. Today, I had to calculate past dates using 2 separate date and time columns. MySQL uses NOW() to output a date format such as "2011-03-10 14:30:00". My date...
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Ambient Occlusion is a clean and warm theme, with a brown/cocoa colour theme built for experienced bloggers. The theme features an About page in the sidebar, display of latest tweets, a SERP checker plugin for internal pages, related posts without a plugin, advanced pagination without a plugin and automatic Google Analytics code insertion. Also, the theme features a sticky posts...
These are some of the highlights of Bruce Albert Dale’s 30 year career at National Geographic including 10 trips to China beginning in the late 1970′s, the hologram cover for the 100th anniversary edition, and mounting a camera on the tail of a jumbo jet for in-flight photographs. Enjoy the show!