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Ink Plant Blog
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The web design/development/marketing tips and tricks you need to know. Includes useful PHP and MySQL code snippets.
Recent Posts
Explode Each Character in a String to an Array
I added a couple new code snippets to the Code section today, including a function that act’s like PHP’s explode(), but separates every character instead of requiring a delimeter. You can achieve the same thing using PHP’s split()...
How to Run a Shell Script as Superuser
If you’ve ever tried to run a shell script as superuser in Linux by using the syntax sudo ./example-shell-script, you’ll know that doesn’t work. Instead, this is how you need to do it: Create your scriptvi example-shell-script Cha...
Quick Security Alert Regarding Bluefish Editor
This will be a quick post because I’ve been slammed with work lately, but I just wanted to mention something alarming that I discovered the other day. As I started using Bluefish Editor, I started noticing all sorts of extra files on my server...
Is it just me or are bots getting smarter?
The great thing about the internet is that it allows people to disseminate massive amounts of information at amazingly cheap prices. This is also one of the worst things about the internet… Because it’s so cheap to send out informatio...
What text editor is best for coding?
This is a question that I haven’t thought much about in the last ten years or so. I picked up a copy of Homesite back when it was still published by Allaire and never looked back. I upgraded versions a couple times out of necessity as I mov...
Best Running Log Launched
Yikes! Another long drought between blog posts up here. But, again, I have a good excuse… I’ve been hard at work cleaning up ancient (circa 2003) code, doing a little re-design, and adding some new features to my online running log. In...

