Boris Masis

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 […]

Yahoo small business domains recently increased their yearly domain renewal fees to $30 (as compared to $7 for some others) I needed to transfer several production domains from yahoo to godaddy and avoid downtime. Domain transfers are notoriously lengthy and painful; domain unlocking, transfer initiation, secret codes, and waiting, waiting, and more waiting. Here’s a […]

We have the Umbraco CMS (version 3) configured to use TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editing. It works quite well up until we want to insert some HTML content that TinyMCE strips out (like an embedded youtube video, or a screencast) Here’s how to create a very simple Umbraco macro (using a c# user control) to allow […]

So I just launched http://www.wheretochief.com. It’s a little silly, but try it out. Mostly its is a technology demo: Entirely Client Side ZVents API (JSON via JQuery) Facebook Connect Blueprint CSS UserVoice Watcha think?

Ok, so you’re working with Google App Engine, cool. It comes time to deploy your application, and of course you’ve created several application copies in your GAE account to have DEV, QA and PROD versions of your app. But how do you manage the app.yaml file which holds the application identifier? (this determines which version […]

Update: we’ve had some problems where some incorrect tables have been deleted by this script. We haven’t had time to investigate, but for now I don’t recommend using this script as is. Elad posted a small script to delete inactive WordressMU blogs. This can be useful if you run a blog network and want to […]

It’s fairly simple to integrate Google Analytics so that your campaign variables get saved behind the scenes when someone submits your wufoo form. The code is based on the original post at analytics talk, with some small modifications for wufoo. All we need to do is include a small javascript file that will parse our […]

I’m working on a WordPress MU blog network and ran accross the need to change the domain that the blogs are running under. This should actually be a fairly common need, for example, if you copy your PROD environment to QA, you’ll probably want to change the blog url from http://blog.com to http://qa.blog.com. Changing the […]

At Cultural Care Au Pair we use Google Analytics to track the sucess of our campaigns both online and offline. Google provides a nice url builder tool that generates links tagged with our various campaign attributes. Here’s the problem though, the links end up looking like: http://www.culturalcare.com/default.aspx?utm_source=testSource&utm_campaign=testCampaign That’s quite an ugly url for something like […]