This plugin will display a small ‘?’ icon that links to either the definition or the translation of the word. The plugin is a no-brainer to use: [define:dog] will define the word ‘dog’ and [en2fr:dog] will translate the word ‘dog’ from english to french. The plugin is language-sensitive; Spanish installation will return spanish definitions. Google Dictionary is used to define words, as it has definitions for technical terms in multiple languages. There is also built-in support for translation of the plugin.

Subtle but useful

Dashboard Admin Email

Dashboard Admin Email is a plugin for WordPress that displays the administrator’s email on the dashboard. It’s not rocket science, but it’s a time saver for admins who manage WordPress blogs for clients. I can confirm it works with WordPress 2.9.2 and 3.0.

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Dashboard Message

Dashboard Message is a WordPress plugin that displays a custom message on the Dashboard. The plugin will display anything you throw at it, which can be useful for messages to users or quick-and-dirty plugins. I can confirm the plugin works with WordPress 3.0

Using the plugin is very simple: put whatever you want to display in the message.php file in the plugin’s folder. If you need any help, there is the comments section below.

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3 days ago, on a bright, hot summer day like there are few in Quebec’s summers, I was sitting inside a small coffee shop, impatiently waiting to lay my signature on my very first web development contract. Oh, I had made websites before, but none I got paid for. An hour later, we went our separate ways; me with a check, them with a warranty of getting their work done.

A weekend and 15 hours working at Staples later, it was time to get to work. Even if I wasn’t going very far today, save the occasional to-and-fro between the desk and the kitchen counter, it was no excuse to avoid leaving my PJ’s. LifeHacker said it: “no pants, no productivity”, and I wholeheartedly agree!

With a simple rule in mind (don’t check Reddit) and a good night’s sleep, it took me three hours to clear my task list without even checking Facebook or Google Reader. Thanks to a few useful tools, my first day was a success.

Do

• Dress up as if I you were going to work
• Use Remember the Milk to get things done without forgetting anything
• Keep a clean and distraction-free workspace
• Set pauses to leave the computer and do something else

Don’t

• Check Facebook, Reddit or Google Reader
• Work in the basement

What?

When displaying PNG pictures in Internet Explorer or Safari, there is a color distortion with the images. If this will not cause any trouble with isolated pictures, it can ruin your design if you rely on superimposed images with the same background color.

Why?

The gamma correction data included in a PNG image is used by browsers to make sure the image looks good when it’s displayed on your screen. However, this so-called “correction” is not applied equally to all colors and images and thus two superimposed images can look different even if they use the same colors, effectively breaking the design in some browsers.

The full explanation can be found here.

How do I fix this?

The fix to this is to simply not include gamma correction data with the images when you save them.

In Photoshop CS4,when you Save For Web & Devices, uncheck the Convert to sRVB box before you save your image.

You can also achieve this with PNGCrush and TweakPNG.

Source 1, source 2

Seositecheckup.com is useful. That’s all I had to say.

I made those three buttons for a website I will never put online. The icons are still good and could serve someone else, so here they are. Use and distribute them at will, as long as you don’t claim them as your own. Some credit would be appreciated!

I also bundled the Inkscape SVG if you want to edit or resize them.

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Ce message s’adresse aux étudiants du Cégep de Granby, et il est donc en français. J’ai créé un petit espace perdu sur le web pour faciliter la revente et l’échange de livres de classe. Comme ça coûte cher et que ça sert pas à grand chose passé la fin de session, j’ai l’impression que ça va servir à quelques étudiants!

Assez parlé, visitez L’ANTI-COOP

Fresh out of its sandbox environment is the new website for Party en Beauté, a new Granby-based event decoration rental service. It’s my first public work as a web developer (unless you count Trly.gd) and I’d appreciate some input.

Here is the simple, quick fix to the “#1046: No database selected” error when importing a .sql file from a Wamp installation in phpMyAdmin.

Fix:

In phpMyAdmin, click the Export tab situated under Home instead of the one when you are viewing the database to export. This will allow you to export entire databases and not only the tables contained in it. This might not work for users of hosting sites such as Hostmonster or Hostgator, since they pick the database names for you.

Alternative fix:

1. Create the database on your server and note down the name.
2. Open your .sql file with a text editor. You might want to use something other than Notepad since it doesn’t recognize the line breaks.
3. Insert the following line before your first CREATE TABLE command in your .sql file:

   USE yourdatabasename;

   Be careful to write in the right database name. Hostmonster users, for example, will have their username in front of their database name. Therefore, the products database is in fact named username_products.

4. Save your .sql file and import it using the import tab in phpMyAdmin.

Source

Fortunately, it seems like it’s no longer in use.

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