ExpressionEngine® Twitter API v1.1 add-ons

Twitter will soon be removing older parts of their API which means that some Twitter plugins will stop working. If you show latest tweets etc on any of your websites, now is the time to check the plugins used are compatible with the Twitter API changes.

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Infinite Scrolling with Manual Trigger in ExpressionEngine

I needed to implement a ‘load more’ button on a listings page on a website. So instead of listing x items per page, I needed to load an extra x items on the same page each time the ‘load more’ button was clicked, similarly to how Twitter has a button at the bottom of the …

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Feedburner email subscription form 404 errors

I recently added a Feedburner subscribe by email form to a website and have discovered a problem with it. Sometimes the form does not work – the pop-up URL http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify just shows a 404 error. At first I thought that this was just happening in Firefox, which seemed crazy as the browser should not affect …

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jQuery Galleria: overwriting div content with large image

On implementing a photo gallery using the handy Galleria jQuery plugin recently, I ran into a a couple of issues. Firstly, the current version (1.0) does not work instantly with jQuery 1.3. You get error messages like “Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [@rel=…”. This is easily fixed. You just need to open the Galleria file and …

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Ajax – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

I’m glad I remembered to read last Friday’s technology pages in The Irish Times. Danny O’Brien‘s column was about the new approach to building web applications called Ajax. It’s the reason Google’s newest offerings, like Google Maps and Gmail, function so smoothly, resembling desktop applications rather than the traditional request and wait web model. Adaptive …

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test domain while it is resolving

if you are waiting for domain name details to propagate, but need to test the site that will use that domain now, there is an easy way around this. you can just hard code the new dns settings locally on your machine. to do this in windows xp, open C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS and add a line of …

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