Downtime… and our new server.

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We’ve only just migrated over to our new dedicted server. Some services may experience problems in the next week or so while we code over to the new platform. Moving over to the new server gives us the opportunity to build the services (and use the resources) that simply weren’t available in the old environment. [...]

Happy New Year

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I know, it’s a little late, right? Well, it’s the first time I’ve posted since November 28 last year. Quite a lot has happened over the last 4 months that precluded me from investing time into my arsenal of websites. My aviation career, consulting business and recent nuptials have all taken their toll. However, we’re [...]

Resolve Short URLs To Their Destination URL with PHP (such as T.co, bit.ly & tinyurl.com)

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In a few projects I’ve worked on recently, I’ve had to resolve short URLs to their destination URL. This post will show you how to: Resolve a single URL one level deep. Resolve a URL in a PHP loop until we reach a page that we deem to be the destination. Resolve multiple links obtained [...]

Add Your Latest Google Plus Post(s) to Your WordPress Blog (or Generate a Google+ RSS Feed)

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Google Plus is an awesome platform but it’s lacking in terms of the API offerings. Simply adding something such as your last post to your WordPress blog is somewhat of a chore. This post will detail how to include your latest Google+ post titles to your page using (previously provided) WordPress shortcode. Alternatively, you might [...]

iChoice.com.au

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Since 2005, I’ve been involved with a Mortgage/Finance company in Sydney, Australia. We’ve never had much of a web presence… and never really needed it given the type of business we conduct. However, in light of recent expansion and growing ‘franchise’ operations, we’ve just launched our primary home loan search page. The site was designed [...]

Generate QR Codes on Your Website or WordPress Post with Google Chart Tools

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QR Codes, or Quick Response Codes, were initially designed by the automotive industry to tag parts. The black and white square pattern is a two dimension bar code that essentially translates to text. If you own a smart phone or tablet, you’re probably used to seeing and scanning them (with a barcode scanning application) as [...]

Metar to Twitter Application

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Some time back I set up a number of Twitter accounts that would automate the hourly posting of aviation metars for a small number of airports (examples: @YSSYmetar & @KLAXmetar). I was later inundated with requests from people that wanted accounts set up for their own local airports. It was a little time-prohibitive to set [...]

Blogger.net.au and the iSnare WordPress Plugin

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On April 27, 2008, I set up Blogger.net.au and wrote about the purpose of the site on InterNoetics (formerly martinetics.com). The post was oriented around turnkey-style websites and the ‘myth’ that they made money. It’s funny reading back on what I wrote back then because – although my opinion hasn’t changed in any drastic way [...]

Happy (belated) New Year!

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I’ve been a little lazy lately… at least in terms of updating this blog. I’ve involved myself in a number of other projects that were all competing for my attention so finding the time for my own passion projects had to take a back seat. I’ve not followed up on comments, emails or support requests, [...]

GoogleNetics.com

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You may have noticed the lack of activity on InterNoetics lately. As many of you would be aware, we generate new websites weekly. This technique forms the basis of our profitability (by spreading risk) but also enables us to easily identify what works so we know where to focus our efforts. One of our more [...]

First Impressions of Google Plus

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I’ve come very close to shutting down my personal Facebook account lately. The only reason I haven’t is because of the presence of various podcasts and websites that are essentially linked to my personal profile. I’m becoming more and more frustrated with having to divide my attention between half a dozen social networks that are [...]