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Services in Snow Leopard – Creating a Posterous Service

This is a quick tutorial demonstrating one of my favorite features in Snow Leopard – the services menu. I discovered Posterous not too long ago and have decided to create a quick service for posting selected text to my Posterous blog.
If you haven’t taken a look at Posterous yet, you might want to! It allows [...]

Adding a course syllabus as a news item

This tutorial shows a quick method for uploading a course syllabus as a news item.

Click on the Add button to create a news item

From your course home page, click on the green + symbol to create a news item.

Give your news item a headline and some content

In the fields provided, give your news item [...]

ExpressionEngine Basics: Publication Workflow

This ExpressionEngine Basics post covers the fundamental steps involved in creating a publication workflow. In this quick example we’re only going to work with the default status groups and 2 member groups, but you could use information here to start building much more robust workflows.

Creating featured posts section in Expression Engine

This brief tutorial shows a quick way of creating a “featured posts” section for your Expression Engine website. This method involved using a drop-down list with options to include/exclude the post from the featured posts section.

Creating a iPhone Web Clip – Part II

Several months ago, I wrote a short tutorial on creating an iPhone Web Clip Icon for your website. No doubt some people who have tried creating their own icons have noticed that the graphic sometimes looks slightly different when actually viewed on an iPhone.

Secure Downloads in Expression Engine

This tutorial covers using two free plugins for Expression Engine, File Upload & Lock Download, to create a secure area for sharing files with members of your EE site. At the conclusion of this tutorial, you will have created a system whereby administrators can easily upload files to a folder, and members logged into the site will be able to download files without actually being able to see the true URL of the file.

Adding an iPhone Web Clip Icon to your Website

By default, when an iPhone user saves a webclip to the springboard, a screenshot of the current web page is used as the icon. However, you can create your own custom icons yo replace the standard graphics.

This tutorial should take about 5 minutes to complete

Building an iPhone Template for Expression Engine

This tutorial shows how to create a quick and simple iPhone-specific template for Expression Engine using Joe Hewitt’s iUI framework. This is an introductory tutorial and only covers a fraction what’s possible using iUI. For more information, I suggest reading more at Google Code, Joe’s blog, or iPhone and iPod touch Programming (published by Wrox). [...]