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Where did Renowned Media go?
August 23rd, 2010Why, Ann Arbor of course! Renowned Media will now be based out of Ann Arbor, a city with much more technical businesses and requirements than our old home of Midland. We’ll still do work with our Midland friends of course, but mostly via telecommute.
NeoInvoice Nearing Public Beta
July 22nd, 2010If you haven’t heard by now, we are developing a web application for use by companies in the hourly service industry. This application will be free for small companies and charge a monthly fee for larger companies. This application will be used for invoicing, time tracking, keeping track of employee hours, etc. This application, NeoInvoice, [...]
Time Differences between PHP and MySQL
June 13th, 2010The difference between reported times of MySQL and PHP compared on both a Windows and a Linux server.
Free Web Utilities
April 18th, 2010This list contains an amazing assortment of tools and utilities useful for web application development. Utilities range from server side software, web software, all the way to downloadable and hosted tools. Even better, every tool listed on this page is free.
Brand New Layout for Renowned Media!
April 6th, 2010We are pleased to announce the new layout for RenownedMedia.com. The previous layout was very grungy and dirty looking, which appealed to our outdoor clients, but lacked the clean and professional look that would be appreciated by most of our clients.
Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links
March 2nd, 2010The listing of items from ZCE for the exam, with relevant links compiled by Renowned Media.
PHP cURL Replacement
February 26th, 2010If you are a PHP developer who writes a lot of software which needs to be executed in many different shared hosts, it can often be frustrating when certain hosts don’t offer all of the functionality your applications require, specificially the cURL libraries. I’ve seen these missing on several hosts, either for security reasons or [...]
Accessing CodeIgniter Session Data using External Scripts
February 20th, 2010PHP Sourcecode so that a non CodeIgniter PHP script can access data stored in the users CodeIgniter session.
Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Equivalent for Internet Explorer
February 19th, 2010This tool is for Internet Explorer 7 and behaves like a mashup between the two Firefox tools, Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug.
Random Session Timeouts on MediaTemple
February 16th, 2010
How to change your php.ini settings on your MediaTemple account to prevent your sessions from randomly expiring.
Using TortoiseSVN with MediaTemple Subversion
February 16th, 2010
Article on how to configure your TortoiseSVN client to access MediaTemple’s subversion repositories.
CodeIgniter .htaccess for MediaTemple
February 13th, 2010
A few tweaks need to be made to CodeIgniter to make it compatible with the MediaTemple hosting environment. This article discusses these required changes to get CI running smoothly.
Enabling file_get_contents() and fopen() With Remote URL’s on MediaTemple
February 9th, 2010
How to enable access to remote files on MediaTemple using the functions file_get_contents() and fopen().
2010 Company Updates
February 7th, 2010One of our websites, batmancomic.info, recently became an internet phenomenon, and over the course of the last three days has had over 42,000 unique visitors. Unfortunately, this had the effect of taking down our entire shared host host server. Which leads us to the second half of this update! We will be slowly moving all [...]
StockXpert is ceasing regular operations
February 6th, 2010Hopefully Stock Exchange stays around! Dear Thomas Hunter, We are sorry to announce that beginning today, StockXpert will no longer sell new credits or accept new members. On February 11, 2010, searching and downloading at StockXpert will cease. This will be the end of image sales at StockXpert. All SXP members have the opportunity to [...]
Convert ASCII to UTF-8 using VBA
December 29th, 2009
A function for converting characters into a UTF-8 format, required by Google Maps for making API calls.
What happened to all of the updates?
December 28th, 2009An explanation of Renowned Media’s recent sabbatical.
Batman & Robin Comic Generator
November 22nd, 2009
Just for fun, we’ve developed a Batman & Robin Comic Generator website. The concept is simple and only took an hour to develop.
Change of Address starting December 2009
November 16th, 2009Come December (2009), we will have a new office location. Please do not mail any checks or packages to our Main Street office at that time. If you do have something that needs to be mailed to us, we will send you an address via email or telephone. Our telephone number and any other form [...]
Show only excerpts on WordPress Homepage
November 11th, 2009
This will set up your blog to only show excerpts on index pages. Very useful for keeping your blog page from containing thousands of words and overwhelming the reader.