Monthly Archives: February 2008

Retrieving and Embedding Web Site Thumbnails

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Ivan Storck

The Picoshot service allows you to embed a thumbnail image of another website in your page with a simple <img> tag. And, I was also able to use curl on the command line to create a file. A little HTML … Continue reading →

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Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business

Posted on February 28, 2008 by ivanoats

Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business In an age of inconvenient truths, global warming, and “green is good” messages in the mass media, Sustainability has become a popular catchphrase and the new … Continue reading →

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The Top 50 eco blogs

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Ivan Storck

The Times UK reports on its top 50 eco blogs. It is a must-read (and bookmark) for an aspiring green social marketers. It would be nice to know what criteria (PageRank, Unique visitors, Editorial quality) they used. Congrats to all … Continue reading →

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Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com

Posted on February 22, 2008 by ivanoats

Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com PDF Downloads for Coaching Skills Tools | Manager’s Coaching Toolkit – a book & a blog to make business coaching really simple Eownload PDF template sheets for all the Manager’s Coaching Toolkit tools. You might not … Continue reading →

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Easy Ways to Create a Professional Photography Website

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Ivan Storck

There are so many options available to photographers to create a professional looking portfolio site. Here are just a few I’ve run across in the past couple of months. SmugMug.com offers template based sites and includes a way to sell … Continue reading →

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Rake Tasks for dumping mysql

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Ivan Storck

I have definitely used sqlite database files but I also like sticking to mysql, because I know that’s what I’ll use on the the server. I’ve created some rake tasks to help me in this process. As usual, they go … Continue reading →

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Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com

Posted on February 16, 2008 by ivanoats

Latest Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia.com Code Intensity: Auto-Complete Text Fields in Rails 2 In Rails 2, the PrototypeHelper and ScriptaculousHelper code was removed to plugins. This means that doing auto-complete for various fields was no longer part of the base Rails. … Continue reading →

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Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines

Posted on February 13, 2008 by ivanoats

Bookmarked on Ma.gnolia.com Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released green guidelines for marketers, The Age reports. guidelines to combat businesses wrongly claiming their products or operations are “environmentally friendly”, or “green”. Fines for … Continue reading →

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How to remove subversion (SVN) info from a project

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Ivan Storck

Sometimes when I’m coding I need to remove all the subversion (SVN – a source code version control program, which if you’re a non-programmer, you could also use for any documents you want to version control) information from the project. … Continue reading →

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Green Prophet

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Ivan Storck

Green Prophet is a site Sustainable Websites is now hosting that takes a look at environmental issues in Israel – but it’s a great read for anyone because the articles transcend regional issues and offer insights into what positive steps … Continue reading →

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