This blog is an ongoing project by Mike Maddaloni, president of Dunkirk Systems, LLC, to archive the myriad of tech tips and resources he has collected along his 10+ years as a Web developer.
Train-ee is an excellent source for learning ExpressionEngine. They offer classroom, online and free tutorials. I use the site to brush up on EE features and functionality, and I am always learning something from the site.
sourcegate, as well as many other blogs built by Dunkirk Systems, LLC, is powered by ExpressionEngine, or EE. This video tutorial shows you how to learn and build a blog in EE.
Am I worried about you becoming a competitor? Bring it on!
If you would like to integrate Gravatar into your ExpressionEngine blog or forum, EEGravatar is what you need. It is an extremely straightforward plugin, and it is from Stupid Evil Bastard, so what’s not to like there?
To see how Gravatars work, simply signup with Gravatar and write a comment to this post. If you post a comment and do not have your email address tied to Gravatar, you will see the profile of the Old Man of the Mountain!
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If you are running version 1.5.x of ExpressionEngine, you should upgrade to the latest version. But in the meantime, apply this file uploading security patch for uploads done within the EE control panel.
If you don’t want to spend your New Year’s Day updating the end copyright date on your ExpressionEngine sites, use a dynamic variable to automatically show the end copyright year, either an EE tag or PHP code (if you have PHP turned on).
On January 8, 2008 around 1 p.m. MT, an upgrade was made to my Web hosting account at BlueHost where sourcegate and my other blog, The Hot Iron, are hosted. This caused both blogs to “break” in that all links redirected to the home page, which means all links were broken as this is the action of the 404 error. Both blogs run ExpressionEngine (or EE), a content management system I like very much.
I then got an email from Andy Knight who was having this same problem. I shared with him what I did, and earlier today, January 10, I got an email from him saying he solved the issue, and shared with me his fix. It is as follows:
In the root index.php file, change the value of $qtype to 1 (path_info) from 0 (auto). Then change the assignment of $path_info as follows:
