Topic: Articles

This category features posts that spread useful tips and suggestions for web developers and designers, blogger and freelancers. It also present news and updates from the Garage, contests, tech news etc…

Blog Update – Link Submissions Working Again

I just fixed a problem with the blog I didn't even know I had before today. Some of you may have noticed that the link submissions haven't been working for quite some time. The problem arose as part the fallout from the issue described in this post. Well finally today ...


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15 Photos From My Mardi Gras Vacation For Your Inspiration

Apologies for the lack of posts last week. I was out of town on vacation for Mardi Gras. Here's some photos for your perusal.


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How To Get 500,000 Twitter Followers In 2 Days

That's right. Charlie Sheen joined Twitter just on Tuesday and now has over 500,000 followers. Obviously I think it will be a little hard to repeat his formula of getting fired from the highest paying TV acting job followed by general loony-tune dialog in TV interviews. But the speed he ...


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A Multi-threaded Persistent Echo Socket Server In Python

Recently, I needed to create a demo application for someone. The project required me to have a TCP socket server listening for client connections. Python offers the ability to get something like this up and running quickly. Even better, since I am certainly not the first person to run into ...


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Tourist Photos Are Remarkably Similar

This post caught my eye this morning. Artist Corinne Vionnet has painstakingly layered hundreds of tourist photos on top of each other. I think the resulting images are pretty cool. I think it's funny that tourists all want to take pictures from the same angle. Isn't that what post cards ...


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Podcast With Gmail Developer

I just listened to this podcast with Paul Buchheit, the developer of Gmail. I thought it was really interesting when he talked about the design decisions that went into Gmail. For example, they started out thinking that people were better organized with their email using folders and rules to sort ...


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How To Disable a WordPress Plugin From MySQL

If you stopped by PVMGarage last night, you might have noticed the site was down. I didn't find out about the problem for several hours, but apparently one of my plugins was acting up. The news submission plugin that I am using was causing some sort of caching issue which ...


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Finally Something I Can Use From Living Social

If you've been living in a cave the past year then you may not have seen sites like Groupon and LivingSocial cluttering up your inbox. Most of the time the emails I have gotten have been for pretty useless stuff. I am not exactly a frequent patron of salons, spas, ...


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NextDayFlyers Update

I just wanted to chime in here and say that after my review of NextDayFlyers, I received my order and everything turned out great. The print quality was good and they do indeed ship your order out the next day. If you have a rush design order I definitely recommend ...


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The New Big Ten Logo – Yuck!

Last Monday, the Big Ten football conference unveiled their new logo. I must say it looks impressive... for a 2nd grader. I think this is clearly the kind of thing you get when you design by committee. Sure, some people might not like a design created by a single creative ...


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