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"Secret" eBay and Craigslist Hacks That Will Save You Thousands of Dollars Online

1. May 2008

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You probably already know that you can save a lot of money by using websites like eBay and craigslist. Most “how to save money” blog articles tell you you can save money by using these sites, but don’t go into a lot of details. I want to change that by showing you exactly how I [...]

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Apache redirect non-www to www while keeping http and https intact

16. August 2007

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I have no idea why this is so hard to find on the Internet, but it took me over an hour to piece together this solution. Scenario: A client has a site where the SSL certificate has been purchased for www.[hisdomain].com, so https://hisdomain.com/ shows a certificate error. Also, for SEO purposes, he wants requests for http://[hisdomain].com [...]

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Open-source, free PHP breadcrumb link script

23. June 2007

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Last night, I was working on the new Simpli website. The designers who did the website had a Javascript that created breadcrumbs at the top of each page (you know, those links that say Home > Section Name > Page Name). I thought it was really silly to do that in Javascript; plus, the code [...]

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Exposing the Twitter XML API with PHP

4. March 2007

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Recently Robert Scoble was complaining about how hard it was to add all of his Twitter followers as friends automatically. I figured it should be pretty easy to script. Well, it should be, but Twitter makes it unnecessarily complicated. First, the Twitter API is marginally useful, but doesn’t let you actually do much besides passively read [...]

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