Ramblings of a Freelance Web Dev in Wiltshire
Media has been buzzing with the success of social networks Facebook and Twitter. Information is being exchanged at a viral rate and is influencing the success of businesses and organisations. If you aren’t on Facebook, you might be wondering what’s the point. Myspace, Bebo, blogging, is it all the same? Not quite.
Posted in Web & Internet.
– 12/08/2009
This week I migrated a site for a client, from Heart Internet over to Just Host. In the process I found a few tidbits missing from the Just Host knowledge base.
FTP everything in binary or it will strip all the whitespace out of your ascii transfers. PHP scripts stop working.
The Shared SSL on Just Host doesn’t work by default, you need to open a support ticket and make a request. They advise it will take up to 24 hours to work after that, and then your URL will be https://server.ip/~accountname.
Having this info would have saved me a bit of time, but the support was quite helpful and within an hour.
Posted in Web & Internet.
– 07/08/2009
It’s a great time saver to update Facebook remotely from Twitter using Selective Twitter Status. I found the Facebook App several weeks ago and at that time you had the choice of updating one of your Facebook statuses, either your own or your Page status. (There’s a different app to publish all tweets to your Facebook stream but I found this limiting what I would want to tweet.)
Selective Twitter Status has made a huge improvement since I last configured it. It now supports adding more than one instance, not a choice for adding to either your profile or a page. You can add one Twitter account for each Page you manage. All you need to do after installing the Facebook App is to add #fb to the end of your tweets when you want it published to Facebook. Incredibly easy and a huge convenience.
Configuring a separate account for each page.
Selective Twitter Status by @andyy is one of my favourite tools.
Posted in Web & Internet.
– 25/07/2009
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