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Today we were saddened to hear that Trunk.ly will be shutting down. Yes, congratulations are certainly due Tim Bull and Alex Dong, trunk.ly's co-founders, but we still hate to see them go away like so many others before them. Our own little spot on Trunk.ly's site was one of our favorites, and we'll keep the [...]

In the last installment of this series we took an existing *form Task that posted a Link *form to HubPages and converted it to post an Article *form to HubPages. Today we’re going go one step further and combine elements of two working Tasks to produce a new Task that will post an Event *form [...]

Now that we’ve gotten all of that background, conceptual, and theoretical prerequisite stuff out of the way, let’s look at some real Tasks and see if we can’t actually make something out of something else. One of the simplest ways to alter an existing Task is to modify the source, or *form Type. Those of [...]

There are two schools of thought on what a person needs to know before attempting to create or modify a *form Task. One theory maintains that a *form Task Developer needs to understand the HTTP protocol, the request/response cycle upon which all web traffic is based, the inner workings of the Splatforms.com infrastructure, including the [...]

A few days ago, we created a Hub on HubPages to validate a couple of Tasks that we developed to post *form data to a HubPages Hub. We didn’t spend a whole lot of time on our new Hub; other than a contact form and an RSS module to pick up the feed from this [...]

We had such a good time playing with Squidoo the other day that we decided to go ahead and do the same thing with HubPages. HubPages and Squidoo are similar sites with similar goals, but they each have their own unique language when it comes to the elements involved in the process. On Squidoo you [...]

Some time ago we put out a little piece that we called Getting Started with Splatforms to step folks through the various set-up items that one needs to accomplish in order to successfully access all of those wondrous benefits of having an account on Splatforms.com. Since that pretty much covered everything fairly well, rather than [...]

As much as we’d love to tell you that every single Task for every single Target Web Site always succeeds for every single user, the reality is that this is an imperfect world, and there are a variety of reasons why things do not always turn out according to plan. What you can do when [...]