But they do what they need to do. A client recently asked me to have a different domain point to a subdirectory of their existing site. I hadn't done a redirect like this in a while, so I had to hit the books and make sure I was writing it correctly. Storing this here for future use.
If you happen across this page, searching for god knows what... I've recently entered a contest to design and win a paintball gun. For those of you outside of the world of paintball, this is a pretty big deal, because these guns sell for around $1200 brand new. This one, being a limited edition, would sell for quite a bit more at auction. My intent was to attempt to win the design contest, and then put the gun up for auction on a site like eBay. I would then donate the proceeds to a charity.
Sometimes, the need arises to have a facebook app that will be reused across several pages. Those pages may or may not be related in some way, but the content or functionality of the app should carry across them. It MAY seem easier to just create a new copy of the app for each page, but that's going to be a nightmare to maintain if you're delivering anything more than a tiny chunk of content.
To get around this, you can create a single app that is called by as many pages as you want. This single app will leverage the "signed request" that facebook passes to all apps. There's a lot of useful data in the signed request, like whether or not the user has liked the page (I referenced this in an earlier post about reveal pages). For this example, I'm only interested in parsing the request and getting the page id, and then using this to determine what to display.
Either it's going to get better, or it's going to get worse… but Google+ is instituting some new changes that your clients might start asking about. Fair warning, there's a good bit of speculation in the following post, so take that into account.
We all know our clients can be impatient sometimes… This was the case yesterday, when one of my clients decided that they needed to know what the traffic was on their site and absolutely could not wait until the next morning when the google analytics numbers were updated.
Wrapping up work on a site that does some interesting things:
facebook connect
facebook interactivity
parallax scrolling background
conditional css that targets chrome using php
I have no idea if I'm under an NDA for this client... I don't think i am, but for safety's sake, I just won't list it here for now.
I'm writing some code for a client that allows a user to sell their soul, and in return... give me their email address, their profile photo, and the ability to post messages to their wall. Exciting stuff!
Sub HyperAdd()
'
' Converts each text hyperlink selected into a working hyperlink
'
For Each xCell In Selection
ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=xCell, Address:=xCell.Formula
Next xCell
'
'
End Sub