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.
Easily create and add a poll to your Web site or blog with PollDaddy. There are some limitations to the free account, but it should work for general use. The paid Pro account removes most all of them.
Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines your blog has been updated.. And yes, I took that description directly from the service, as I couldn’t say it better myself!
If you have a blog, use FeedBurner and its MyBrand feature and have merged your FeedBurner account into your Google account, your MyBrand feed may break, and you will get a 404 error.
This is a known issue, and I found this post on how to resolve the FeedBurner MyBrand break. In short, you delete it and readd it! I had to deactivate MyBrand then reactivate it in order for it to take. This was done after I had the CNAME updated.
By the way, if you don’t use MyBrand, you should. Especially if you ever decide to stop using FeedBurner, you will not lose the feed URL.
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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:
Though this example is how to add Digg and del.icio.us links to Blogger, those who have some knowledge of HTML and coding can add them to other blogs or Web sites.
