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I ran into a funny problem last week with a url from the api of a payment gateway that contained ...&currencyCode=..... I adopted an orphaned codebase and am reprogramming it as WordPress plugin and it contains some really weird bugs. The two previous coders that worked on the codebase opted

Kiva list a Dot Net Api class in C# so writing your own in Visual Basic is a tat obsolete were it not that I already had a complete database to process the data dump and I wanted a basic API class that only consumes XML and exposes it as

I heard red was the fashion color this summer, for months I hoped one day I'd sail around with a deck full of ladies in red bikini's. It never happened. Until one day we got hired for the 2012 amsterdam gay pride canal parade and took the Gaywatch crew around

Hi, quick post. I haven't responded to some questions yet, sorry, and to be frank I doubt I'll be having much time to dig into scripting the coming months, we'll be sailing full-time till september. Sailing season started at the end of march and we've been cruising around the lakes

In the series 'how to manipulate google' : pagerank sculpting 101. If I build a site about "LCD television" and want to promote three specific brands/offers, I want Google to index the product/offer-pages as most important in the site, and not the index page. How do I achieve that ?

Here is some shot from my new job ('sailor') : basically what we do is sail around all day with guests. When we are done sailing we go party with Heidi and Heino and the local clergy ...or we enjoy the serene peace and beauty of nature and stuff... ...all

Quick and dirty : posting to WordPress from Word with VBA. I put the text source on the server. It works, to a point. You can take a Word document, run the PostToWordpress macro (with your own blogs settings) and it puts the content in WordPress. I haven't worked with

Went sailing today, made a vid. I was at the Bontekoe race at Hoorn, it is one of the last races for historic sailing vessels in the season, barges and clippers. A number of these ships are well over 100 years old. I was just going to take a look

Okay. Yesterday I made some basic stuff to grab my WordPress blog data with visual basic for applicationsn cos I don't feel like programming php admin pages for tables. So let's make a basic xml-rpc crud plugin and put my agenda on vba remote control. The basic xml-rpc plugin is