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Snipplr’s Popularity Continues to Grow With Over 7,000 Registered Users

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the website. 4,559 users have registered within the last year. Those users have also contributed over 4,000 code snippets. Snipplr is a Web application that makes it easy to find, save, create and share code snippets. The service currently supports over 50 programming languages. ActionScript ActionScript 3 Apache AppleScript ASP Assembler Bash C# C++ ColdFusion CSS Diff Emacs Lisp eZ Publish Forth Fortran Groovy HTML Java JavaScript LaTeX Lisp Lua MatLab NewtonScript Objective C Open Firmware Other Pascal Perl PHP PicBasic Prolog Python R Rails Regular Expression Ruby Scheme SmallTalk Smarty SML SQL SVN TCL TYPO3 VB.NET VHDL Visual Basic W-Language Windows Registry XHTML XML Snipplr also provides software plugins, like the TextMate plugin that allows you to search, retrieve and save snippets directly from TextMate.

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2871/snipplrs-popularity-continues-to-grow-with-over-7000-registered-users

Five SEO Myths

Monday, December 17th, 2007
Sometimes clients can often have unrealistic expectations when it comes to SEO work. The market has become saturated with “Guaranteed top 10 placement – get listed overnight!” fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants SEO companies. Those who are familiar with good, solid SEO techniques are all too aware that these companies almost always fail to deliver. And if they do deliver results, the outcome is usually temporary, because they most likely used Black Hat methods — making it only a matter of time before the site is penalized or thrown out of the index. To address these issues, an SEO specialist may want to educate their ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/49/five-seo-myths

How to Find and Download Files that Are No Longer Available

Thursday, December 13th, 2007
We’ve all experienced it. You search for that perfect plugin to complete your project, only to find that it’s no longer available. Either the site is no longer up, the file has been removed or it’s been taken over by pr0n. The next step is to fire up search engines you hardly ever use. That’s right, I’m talking about you Live and Ask.com. But still, no luck. Every page you find that mentions the download file you need has a broken link. Arrghh, stupid Internet! But wait! There’s still hope! There’s a tremendous resource on the Internet that people often forget ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/42/how-to-find-and-download-files-that-are-no-longer-available

New Features Launched for Raven SEO Tools

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Thanks to the excellent feedback from our beta testers, we’ve enhanced the Link Manager and created an entirely new tool called the Persona Manager. Link Manager Enhancement We included the ability to add multiple links to one page. Before, when you wanted to add a new link to the Link Manager, you could only create one link (anchor text and URL) per page. If you had more than one link — in particular, multiple unique links — you would have to repeat the process of adding a link several times. Now, all you have to do is click on the Add New ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/32/new-features-launched-for-raven-seo-tools

Review of Zotero Add-On for Firefox

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
If you’re on the Internet all day like myself, then you probably come across hundreds of websites, files, music collections, historical archives, images, etc, that you would like to keep track of. Let me introduce you to Zotero. Zotero is a free Firefox 2.x add on — compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux — that makes the collection of data effortless. By default, Zotero makes itself accessible from the status bar, but you can also display it above the Web page content at the top of your browser. It can be used to archive almost anything that you come across on ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/21/review-of-zotero-add-on-for-firefox

Syncing Gmail Actions With IMAP

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Now that Gmail supports IMAP, a question that many avid Gmail users will be asking is, “How do Gmail specific actions translate over to IMAP?” For example, Gmail was always thought to be incompatible with email systems like IMAP, because they used different features, like labels and stars. However, in reality, it ends up that those features — albeit slightly different — are easily mappable to common IMAP features. For those wanting to use Gmail as an IMAP account on their OS-based email client, here’s Google’s official action translation Syncing Gmail Actions in IMAP Action on mobile device/client (e.g. iPhone/Outlook) Result in Gmail ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2820/syncing-gmail-actions-with-imap

OS X Finder Plugin to Remove .SVN Directories

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
We use SVN to store all of our source code here at Sitening. And, like most people who use it, you often find yourself in need of cleaning out all the .svn directories that it creates. There’s no easy way to do this without turning to the command line – and that’s not an option for non-programmers. To fix this problem, I whipped up a small Finder plugin using Automator that adds a new menu when you right-click on a folder. With one click you can remove all the .svn directories inside it. Download the plugin here. To install, simply unzip the ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2960/os-x-finder-plugin-to-remove-svn-directories

Organize Your Documents with Yep

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
One of the best things about using a Mac is the software. The PC world simply can’t match the level of quality software that Mac users interact with every day. Sure, Windows users have the same programs from big companies like Adobe, Microsoft, and Intuit, but I’m talking about the small 3rd party developers. These guys live and breathe the software they write. Their livelihood depends on their customers being thrilled with not only the software but also the customer support. Today I want to profile one of those companies and tell you about their software and the reason I’m ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2957/organize-your-documents-with-yep

How-To Use Valid XHTML Tags in TextMate

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Here’s a tip I just now found out about. In TextMate, the HTML bundle has a ton of available snippets. Unfortunately, they don’t automatically add the closing trailing slash for certain elements. For example, instead of inserting <br/> or <input type="text"/> TextMate inserts <br> or <input type="text"> (Note the missing trailing slashes.) You can change this behavior by going to TextMate Preferences → Advaned → Shell Variables Create a new variable called “TM_XHTML” with value “/” (no quotes) Now TextMate will output valid XHTML when you use the HTML bundle. Here’s a screenshot showing the correct setup. Hope this helps!

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2949/how-to-use-valid-xhtml-tags-in-textmate

New TextMate Book Available

Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Sitening’s favorite editor for developing websites — TextMate — has a new book for learning the ins and outs of this amazing program. It’s called, “Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac.” The book description says it all, although I’m not sure about the ninja part. TextMate is a powerful tool for programmers, web designers, and anyone else who regularly needs to work with text files on Mac OS X. TextMate focuses on pragmatic automation, which means it will save you time time that’s always in short supply. See how your lowly text editor can become a hard working member of your ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2750/new-textmate-book-available

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