Daniel Watrous Employees

A while ago I held a webcast and installed the optincrusher live for a few websites, including customizations to make it fit with the colors and logos. This training also doubles as a resource to learn to use the free graphics program Inkscape to create custom images for your website. There’s a little Photoshop action […]

Dropbox is an amazing service and it’s what we use to share files between us. It’s super easy to setup and it’s free to use for up to 2GB of files. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux! Dropbox can be used in place of FTP for small files, but larger files and more specialized […]

In Part 1 of this training I show you how to develop regular expressions, including a number of resources that you can use. The majority of the tools I used were based on Python. In this training I’m going to translate the regular expressions that I developed into PHP and show you the iterative approach […]

Regular Expressions are an extremely powerful tool for processing text. It turns out that processing text input makes up a significant amount of what programmers do, so it’s pretty crucial to have a good foundation when it comes to regular expressions. It’s also true that regular expressions can be a real pain in the neck […]

Subversion is my preferred tool for managing source code on software projects. A typical software project will include a trunk, for the main development, and two additional folders for tags and branches. In this training I show you how to setup a new subversion repository from scratch. … ...

A critical tool when developing software is Revision Control Software. There are several very good options available, including Subversion, GIT and others. I choose subversion because of it’s excellent Windows based tools and cheap hosting. Project Locker is my preferred hosting company for subversion. In this short training I show you how to use Project […]

Setting up a new wordpress based website from scratch is a rather easy task. In fact, from new domain name to reasonably good looking website takes me about 30 minutes. Of course the devil is in the details, but this will get you about 90% of the way to a complete website. Notice that this […]

optincrusher is a bit of software I wrote to increase optins on wordpress blogs. It’s easily customizable using free software, such as inkscape. In this training I show you how to make a customized version of the optincrusher for a client’s website. … ...

Occasionally it will be necessary to share entire CDs or DVDs of data with you. In many cases it will be faster and more economical to create a disk image rather than ship a physical disc. A disk image, which often comes in the format of a single .iso file, contains all the information to […]

In order to share resources and licenses to services we’ll need to share passwords. This needs to be done in a secure way, and email just doesn’t meet the need, so I chose keepass. … ...