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Import Feed, Display in Multiple Columns

By Dposorio | Published: September 27, 2011

http://digwp.com/2011/09/feed-display-multiple-columns/

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Creating custom RSS feeds in WordPress

By Dposorio | Published: September 9, 2011

http://digwp.com/2009/09/easy-custom-feeds-in-wordpress/

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Attempting White House Style slideshow using jQuery Cycle plugin

By Dposorio | Published: February 25, 2010

As I mentioned before, I am a big fan of the redesign of whitehouse.gov that happened when Obama was inaugurated. One of the other things I impressed me was its use of a slider on the home page to trumpet featured posts. Because I was in the middle of a building a new website for [...]

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Attempting White House style navigation using jQuery and Superfish

By Dposorio | Published: February 15, 2010

I have been loving the redesign of whitehouse.gov that coincided with Obama’s inauguration since, well, his inauguration. One of the things that impressed me the most is its navigational menu. It is a horizontal, pull-down style menu, but what is most interesting to me is the “mega” nature of the sub-menus. It so happens that [...]

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How to merge data in an Excel or Calc spreadsheet, part two

By Dposorio | Published: July 25, 2009

This post is a continuation of an earlier one detailing how to merge datasets in Excel or OpenOffice’s Calc. A reader, Tina, asked “What if you have more than one column to lookup to get the match value?” This post is a response to that question. A merge of two datasets requires at least one [...]

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RSS feeds for productivity and outreach

By Dposorio | Published: April 8, 2009

RSS feeds have been around for a long time.  My experience with them was limited to adding the NY Times and the BBC as “Live Bookmarks” in Firefox. Slowly, I began to realize that there is more to it than that – a lot more.  This is not an exhaustive list of uses for RSS [...]

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Web standards curriculum from Opera

By Dposorio | Published: February 10, 2009

This is a multi-chapter curriculum that offers tutorials on web design concepts, HTML basics, CSS basics, web accessibility, best practices and more.  I haven’t yet delved into this in detail, but I’m really excited to.  I think this might be a great supplement to the mighty W3 Schools.

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Find music on YouTube, use Zamzar, now it is an mp3

By Dposorio | Published: April 19, 2008

My latest obsession for free music consumption is Zamzar. It is a free online service that converts between various file types. For example, you want to convert a Microsoft Word .doc to an Adobe Reader .pdf. It will convert between a million image filetype like .jpg to .png. Audio files are well supported too, such [...]

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How to merge data in an Excel or Calc spreadsheet

By Dposorio | Published: April 19, 2008

Here is the scenario You have two related datasets in Excel or OpenOffice’s Calc. One is a list of names with phone numbers, and the other is a list of names and email addresses. The two datasets have a unique id in common (like a Social Security number). You want to merge the two of [...]

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