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ExpressionEngine’s Deny Duplicate Data Preference

Posted March 10, 2010 @ 10:51 PM, by Marc, in Client, ExpressionEngine 1 Comments icon

There’s a preference in the ExpressionEngine control panel called Deny Duplicate Data which, if turned on, will instruct EE to check if new content submitted by a user is a duplicate of existing content already in the database. It’s a moderately helpful measure in the fight against comment spam, but it recently was the cause of a minor client work-flow issue and it succeeded in confusing me for about fifteen minutes before I finally realized that this preference was the culprit. I thought it would be wise to write this blog entry in case it happens to me again, or if anyone is searching the web looking for a solution to this same dilemma.

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Comparing Apples to Oranges

Posted July 20, 2009 @ 9:52 AM, by Marc, in Business, BWS, Client 18 Comments icon

Basic line-graph showing an increase in project inquiries and those that should be declined, over time

As Boston Web Studio gains more traffic, more attention, and more referrals, the amount of project inquiries I receive increases proportionately. At the same time, and because of math and all of its wondrous properties, the amount of inquiries that I should politely decline increases as well.

While there are numerous reasons any given project should be declined, the one that’s been on my mind lately is that of being compared to another agency whose estimate is much lower than mine for the same work. As I’ll point out below, the term ‘same work’ is ambiguous and rarely means what it implies.

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Receiving Unique Payments with PayPal

Posted February 05, 2008 @ 12:31 PM, by Marc, in Business, Client 0 Comments icon

For you busy folks: skip the article below and view the explanations, steps, code examples, and live demonstrations.

Boston Web Studio has been creating websites since January, 2005, yet during the first three years we were never asked if credit cards were accepted for invoice payments. During those first few years we simply received checks and had given very little thought to receiving any other form of payment. Not long ago, however, three clients asked if we could take credit cards and, unfortunately, I had to answer “no,” but I promised that we would soon.

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