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Contact Form 7 Broken on WordPress – GoDaddy, MS Exchange Email Spam Issues Likely Cause

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Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form […]

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Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today

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ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS

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Screenshot of my jQuery Fancy Paragraphs code in JSFiddle 2013

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery

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I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available

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Comcast Arris TG862 Gateway modem+router Won’t connect to ASUS X401A Mini-Laptop

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Comcast Arris TG862 Gateway modem+router Won’t connect to ASUS X401A Mini-Laptop Problems with brand-new Best Buy ASUS laptop connnecting to Xfinity cable modem: Mom’s New Laptop My mom recently bought an ASUS X401A 14″ Laptop which was equipped without an optical (CD/DVD) drive, and for wireless network connection only. When I’m at her house, I

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The Agony of Looping and Doing Foreach In XP DOS

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07/07/12 It has been a primary goal of mine for several years to write a Windows program, in either DOS or Perl, to automate changing the folder icon in a batch of subdirectories.  It is quite tedious to do this process manually, and when I am trying to customize folder icons this process can eat

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Building A PHP Database Connection Class From Scratch (using Singleton & ActiveRecord patterns)

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Greetings folks. Tonight I’m studying on how to create a PHP Object-Oriented MySQL database connection class.  This will be reusable and able to be implemented in any database driven web application built with PHP & MySQL.  It uses the ActiveRecord and Singleton design patterns. I’m currently following this YouTube tutorial: Using OOP PHP to select,

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PHP View Utilities Code Debugger – A Wrapper For print_r function

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Greetings folks. If you’ve ever gotten tired of having to type: [sourcecode language=”php” htmlscript=”true”] echo "<pre>"; print_r($some_var); echo "</pre>"; [/sourcecode] you are going to love the little debugger class I built. This is a very simple, basic class which doesn’t use patterns or anything fancy.  Actually, it may indeed use patterns that I’m not familiar

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Mozilla Collusion Could Be A Godsend For Privacy Advocates – Is Google Adwords-Adsense In Jeopardy?

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Mozilla unveiled a new privacy add-on called Collusion last Wednesday (February 29). Developed by Mozilla’s in-house programmers, and backed by the Ford Foundation, Collusion enables you to se a visual relationship map of all the advertisers and entities who are tracking your online activity, in real-time. Gary Kovacs, (CEO of Mozilla), had this to say

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