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 [...]

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 [...]

Oprah and the ‘Big Mac for Comment’

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In one of the smarter moves that Aussie tourism has made in recent years, they’ve just flown a lucky group of Oprah audience members to Australia. Oprah’s now officially on her way to Australia in the comfort of private jet while the rest of her entourage arrived in Sydney this morning. The plan to convert [...]