How to Fix: Open Flash Chart, IE & SSL Not Working

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<?php

//Headers Required for SSL in IE
header(”Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate”);
header(”Pragma: public”);

?>

Normally I don’t bother with making sure my projects are Internet Explorer compliant but the Open Flash Charts are just so pretty, and it’s not that difficult to fix, I felt I had to make sure they displayed correctly.

Easy FAQ, a New Wordpress Plugin for Frequently Asked Questions

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I’ve created a Wordpress plugin to create and manage lists of frequently asked questions. Currently its a work in progress but you can download the beta if you want a preview. If you want more information  or to download a copy then check out the Easy FAQ page above.

Screenshot:

easyFAQ interface

Getting Margin:Auto; To Work In Internet Explorer

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I’ve been doing a bit of web design in my spare time lately and before long I came across the issue of using margin: auto; in my stylesheet not working in internet explorer. Meeehhhh! I couldn’t be doing with that and given that the best way to attack an unknown problem is to search for knowledge I hit google (not literally of course).

Turns out, that you can force Internet Explorer (and other browsers) to parse your cascading style sheets strictly by using a strict doctype definition. I used the one below for my project;
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Wordpress Plugin: DBC Backup

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So after last night’s terrible loss of data I decided something had to be done. My host has already arranged for binary backups to be made but I thought there must be some wordpress plugins that keep a copy of your wordpress tables so I began my search. There were a couple that caught my attention so I installed them and had a play and now I’ve made my choice, DBC Backup.

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eBay to Go

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A few days ago I wrote a post about unlocking my new Armani phone so it would work on other networks and originally I just put a link to the auction I had going at the time but then I came across ebay to go.

The site is part of eBay and is all about creating flash widgets to display auction and store items on websites and blogs (or anywhere that renders html) and is at http://togo.ebay.com/. It lets you chose from one of their formats then you choose an item or store and then it creates the html you can post on your blog or wherever to show a flash widget of the item(s) like the one below…

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Accidental Drop!

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So last night I was trying to remove some tables from a database and I accidentally dropped the database instead of the tables in phpmyadmin. Argh! I couldn’t believe it and there was no backup :(

So I shamefully recreated the wordpress tables and used Google’s cache to recreate my posts and comments (that was a lot of effort) and now I think I’ve got most of my posts back except a couple and now I need to sort out some backups!

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