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GOtags - Do more with your Instagram photos Make your Instagram shoppable! Gotags make your posts linkable and send content straight to your followers' inbox or even add products straight to their basket! gotags.co.uk Bootstrap 3 Lightbox based on the modal component A gallery lightbox built in coffeescript…
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Facebook's Selenium PHP Event Firing Web Driver
Back in late 2013, I wrote the Event Firing webdriver for Facebook's implementation of the Selenium webdriver in PHP. The reasoning behind the event firing webdriver is that actions can be called at special events (no shit huh). The classes implement the official Java methods fully, and as such, the…
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Blocking streak.com's email tracking with Chrome and AdBlock Plus
Streak.com has recently opened email tracking up to the masses, and whilst this is nothing new (newsletters and companies often do this) it got me wondering if I actually want people knowing when I've opened their email. This is like when Facebook added the dreaded "Seen at" status when…
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nginx.conf for Laravel
Laravel comes with a .htaccess file by default but this is not useful for nginx. In place of it I present the below conf file built from a variety of sources, and provides the essentials of what you need to get up and running. This is the simplified version that…
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Populating Magento cart via the API
For our recent new service gotags.co.uk, we wanted to integrate directly with Magento to allow users to directly populate their shopping carts from Instagram. Magento, being the beast of a code base it is (seriously, it's stupidly complex) fortunately has the ability for custom SOAP API's to be…