Monthly Archives: May 2010
Valuable Knowledge you Don’t Know
I’m going to change it up a bit with the blog today. I’ve been a Programmer, Stock Broker, Marketing guy and Business Owner over the years and have gained some nuggets of info I thought might be useful to you. This isn’t everything I learned at these positions, just a few bits of knowledge I picked up.
What I Learned as a Stock Broker
Stock Brokers are Not Taught Anything About Investing
I want to start this out by saying I’m not saying all stockbrokers don’t know how to invest money (just a large majority). Continue reading Valuable Knowledge you Don’t Know
Free XML Video Tutorial Series
Here I present a video version of my XML Tutorial. I went out of my way to cover nearly all of the capabilities provided to you with XML. If you have any questions or want further information, leave a comment below.
Learn XML Video Tutorial Part 1
Here I introduce XML by covering:
- XML Basics
- Explain what it can do
- Compare it to HTML
- Explain tags and elements
- Show you what XML looks like
- Explain the encoding attribute
- much more…
Learn XML Schema
In this article I’ll describe the most complicated aspect in XML. A XML Schema is another way you can represent how a XML document file defines data, elements and attributes.
How Schema’s Differ from DTD’s
Unlike DTD’s, which are great when you are mainly working with text elements, Schema’s work best when your mainly working with data elements.
Schema’s also work better when you want to be certain that the proper data is entered. Schema’s define what type of data each element and attribute can hold. For example, with a XML Schema you can specify you will only allow a price element to be of the form of a certain number of numbers followed by a period and then two additional digits. Continue reading Learn XML Schema
How to Reinstall WordPress After Hack
Ok, you’ve been hacked. Stay calm your information is not going to be lost forever. At best you’ll be able to restore everything by just reinstalling wordpress through the Go Daddy interface. At Worst you’ll have to backup a few things, then reinstall WordPress, Themes and Plugins. In this article I’ll walk you through the process.
The Easy Way to Reinstall After a Hack
See my previous tutorial. If that doesn’t fix everything then your in the right place. What you have to understand is that hackers leave their nasty code in your plugins or themes mostly all of the time. So we have to delete and reinstall those.
There is an easy way to do this if you have a Go Daddy Account. Continue reading How to Reinstall WordPress After Hack
Learn XML Document Type Definition’s
As I explained at the end of the last article. You create a Document Type to define the rules that must be followed in your XML Markup. A DTD defines what elements are required and what attributes can be set and what their potential values can be.
Every DTD must start with the line <?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8” standalone=”no”?>. This tells the processor that this is an XML version 1.0 file. The character encoding used is of type UTF-8. And, that no external file is required for this document to work.
Also make sure that when you are creating DTD’s that !ELEMENT, !ATTLIST, #REQUIRED, #PCDATA, #CDATA, etc. are all capitalized.
There you are all up to speed. Now on to DTD Prologs… Continue reading Learn XML Document Type Definition’s
Check or Scan Website for Malware and Viruses
There is nothing worse than having your website flagged by Google for containing Malware. Thankfully, there are many free tools you can use to protect your site from Malware and Viruses. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to protect yourself. For further information on fixing a hacked website click here.
Free AVG Web Page Scanner
AVG LinkScanner will check any web page for suspicious code. To use this tool go to http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/
This is a real time check of the page, not a dated previous check, which is very nice. You can click the image to the left for a larger view.
Just type in the captcha code and the web page you want to analyze and hit the scan button. Hopefully your happy with the results that are returned?
AVG also offers free virus protection for your computer on their site. Continue reading Check or Scan Website for Malware and Viruses
Learn XML eXtensible Markup Language Pt 2
In this tutorial I’ll continue to cover XML and all of it’s capabilities. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. I hope you got this one point from the last XML Article. XML does one thing really well. It organizes and classifies your data, so that it is useable by a wide range of devices and software packages!
In this article I’ll explain how XML influenced HTML, to create the newest version of HTML called XHTML. I’ll then explain what well formed XML is and Document Type Definition’s (DTD).
Learn XML eXtensible Markup Language
In the next set of tutorials, I’ll completely cover XML and all of it’s capabilities. XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. I’ll get back to the extensible part in a minute.
First you have to understand that XML is no more a programming language than HTML is. Let me repeat that. XML is not a programming language, it is a Markup Language that is very similar to HTML. If you don’t understand HTML, stop reading this article and instead read or watch my HTML W3C Tutorial.
People really struggle to understand exactly what XML is and I’m going to explain it in an unconventional way that has never failed in the past. I’ll explain XML, by comparing it to HTML. Continue reading Learn XML eXtensible Markup Language
How to Setup Go Daddy Email
I get asked this question almost weekly, so I’m going to provide you with the step-by-step way to set up your email on Go Daddy.
How to Setup Your Email on Go Daddy
- Login to your Go Daddy Account and hit Go
- Click on My Products in your left side bar
- Click on the link labeled Email under My Products
- There will be a yellow box in the middle of the screen that opens. Click on the link called Use Credit, which is next to the words Personal Email
- On the page that opens, you’ll see in your right side bar a box labeled Setup Free Account. Under that green box click on the domain name you want to setup your email account with and click the Continue button under that. Continue reading How to Setup Go Daddy Email
JavaScript Frameworks
If you have been programming in JavaScript, you have heard about all the frameworks available. The most popular frameworks are:
- Prototype
- JQuery
- MooTools
- Scriptaculous
I’ve been pondering whether I was going to cover frameworks on my site because while I have used them, I prefer to write and reuse my own code. So, in this article I’m going to go through the pro’s and con’s of using frameworks. Continue reading JavaScript Frameworks