Web development

One of my favorite automated RSS to social media tool TwitterFeed is going to shut its door on October 31, 2016. In fact - I don't feel surprised at all. A bit sorrow, yes! TwitterFeed has been behind the scenes of this blog for more than 2 years (although, for many other projects I have been using it since 2010 at least), see: Auto blog to Twitter using Twitterfeed ​Here is the official statement from the founder of TwitterFeed, Mario: Howdy, Twitterfeeders! We're writing to let you know that Twitterfeed will be shutting its doors on October 31st, 2016. It's been one heck of a run and we can…

In this article you will learn how to split large .tsv (and not only) files so you can import them to MS Office, Open Office or whatever you need using a small and neat (paid) program called EmEditor. Here is the scenario - I have been booking.com affiliate partner for many years already, I remember few years ago I dreamt I wish I would programmatically access to all of their hotels (with metadata) , so I could import those data to some other web app and reuse data I want in manner I want to. Recently I noticed on my Booking Central there is a new option - Data download, and here it was - All…

Time after time I like to review some great services available out there in the wide world web, for example some time ago I did find a great online service I'm using to create handcrafted head pictures for my blog - that service I'm speaking about is canva.com Today I got an email coming from Candy from PearlMountain Technology asking me to do some review about FotoJet. Here is what Candy says about FotoJet: FotoJet is a free web app that enables users to quickly create amazing photo cards, collages and social media arts without any downloading or installing. Check it: http://www.fotojet.com…

The other day I was contacted by Stas from CodeLobster.com, Stas wanted to learn is it possible to add a featured post on my blog regarding -  free PHP IDE - Codelobster PHP Edition which has some plugins for Drupal and other CMS (WordPress, Joomla e.t.c). Usually I'm not into 'guest posting' on my blog, but I decided to make an exception.After taking a quick look what CodeLobster offers for Drupal - Frankly speaking, I didn't get a catch, why a Drupal developer would need some third party editor to launch his/her site or write a Drupal modules (hooks, forms).I'm the person sticking…

A time ago, client approached me with question - could I help them out with CS Cart. At that particular day - I haven't heard a word of such Cart or System.Since the needs from client side was just CSS based - I said - yup, I can help you out with your particular CSS needs.Got access to production site, which was already built using out of box functionality.My first impressions - OK - another CMS system (I will not even try to dig into it's modules/plugins or themes)OK - I had to dig into themes section to make those particular CSS changes. I must admit - as for Drupal developer, this…

Google has launched new service Google Domains, which as name says will act as a domain registrar. So far this service is available invite-only, but I guess it's not hard to acquire an invitation. At least I sent my invitation, and I'm hoping to recieve it soon.Google Domains seems will be rivalry for Godaddy domain registrar. And to make this competition more intense Google Domains offers free private registration, which allows us to hide our Name and Address information from WHOIS services. As well one of the mayor benefits should be that DNS will be directly on Google.Here is the list of…

I found a great web service that allows to create awesome graphics online and for free. Name of this great webservice is Canva, and you can find it here.Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.Canva offers a lot of already predefined designs:Facebook header templateA quick modification, and we can customize templates as we wish.Canva offers templates for most various life situations, templates for Google+, Facebook, Social posts…

In this tutorial I will show how to add Pin it button for every image on your website. But before that you might check my tutorial how to add Pin it button to Drupal 7  Bellow is an example with working hover Pin it button Hover over image to see Pin it button on left top corner You will need to add following code to your website (in <head>section</head> <!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --> <script type="text/javascript" async data-pin-hover="true" src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script> And that's it! Nothing more to add, just small…

Working on a project I faced a problem how to align social share buttons. By default I'm not paying much attention to this, but there are circumstances you must provide clean work. So here is the example: These are social share buttons from my blog, as you can see, Facebook button is not in one line with other lines. To fix this, I did a quick Google search and found great tutorial on Github:  Here is my Drupal view - containing social share buttons: <div class="social-share"> <div class="fb-like" data-href="[path]" data-layout="button_count" data-action="like" data-show-faces="…

I agree social media makes a huge impact on blogs traffic and its conversation rates.In this tutorial I will show how you can auto publish your posts to your Facebook page using Twitter and Twitterfeed.At First we will setup auto publish to Twitter, using Twitterfeed, you can find tutorial here.Once all of our posts are synced with Twitter, we can use Twitter built in features to connect and publish to our Facebook page. For full guide read here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/31113-using-twitter-with-facebookIf you are using Open Graph it's gonna be just fine in your Facebook…