Monthly Archives: June 2007

10 Things I Like About The ABC News (Australia) Website Redesign

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Larry Rubin

I stumbled upon the recently redesigned Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website today after somehow being teleported to their story about purple fluorescent frogs discovered in Suriname. I had never seen the site before the redesign, but what I did see inspired … Continue reading →

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Automatically Switch Your Google Maps API Key To The Correct Environment Using PHP

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Larry Rubin

The Google Maps API requires a unique key for each domain where maps will be rendered. This means the key you generate for your production environment won’t work on dev or qa (assuming your dev and qa environments are not … Continue reading →

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Adobe Photoshop CS8 File Name Size Limit

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Larry Rubin

Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0 has a nasty habit of truncating filenames longer than 31 characters when you use the “Save for Web…” feature. There are settings that control this behavior, but they are kinda hard to find. To prevent Photoshop … Continue reading →

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Updating A Remote Subversion Workspace With Password-less Authentication

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Larry Rubin

This tutorial will show you how to execute a command on a remote server using password-less authentication. This particular example demonstrates updating a remote subversion (svn) workspace, though it can easily be adapted to any command you may require. I’ve … Continue reading →

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