Boris Masis

If you’ve ever setup an SSL certificate you know that its a hassle. Renewing your SSL certificate is likewise un-intuitive and takes more steps than it should. It turns out that paying for a certificate renewal does not automatically renew the certificate you have installed, you actually have to install the renewed copy. Our setup [...]

IE8 came out today. Along the way Microsoft fixed a bunch or rendering bugs, which is great, but you might run into problems of you previously used conditional comments such as: <!–[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="patches-ie.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> < ![endif]–> The trouble is that IE8 will still read that patches-ie.css file and apply some [...]

Update February 17, 2011: I’ve updated the zip file with changes from Harry Saal (my original versions of index.php and tiddly1.php are included with a .boris extension in the zip). Harry writes: …changes are marked with my initials (HJS): (a) line 42: make sure to flush to disk, no caching please (b) line 120: made [...]

Turns out that it’s actually fairly easy to create a simple static Facebook application to display some data without needing to work with the Facebook API or any back-end code at all. For example, take a look at the World Map Tab on our Facebook Page. This tab was created by pulling some static HTML [...]

Sometimes you might want to setup a Google Analytics Goal that is actually a link to an off-site url. For example, you conversion page might be on a different domain, but you want to be able to track users who click though to it as completing a goal. We recently launched a WordPress MU blog [...]