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Ideas of March 15 Mar 2013 | 02:57 pm
In between the first and the second time I re-pledged my commitment to the medium of blogging, I posted just three times. This year, it’s four times, which represents a strong upward trend. Let’s say ...
Don't Parse Markdown at Runtime 3 Jan 2013 | 04:46 pm
I’m really pleased to see the popularity of Markdown growing over the last few years. Helped, no doubt, by its adoption by major forces in the developer world like github and StackOverflow; when devel...
24 ways and Perch 2.1 29 Nov 2012 | 10:00 pm
When I launched 24 ways in 2005, it was pretty much a last-minute project. To get the site live quickly, I just reached for the blogging system Textpattern, as I was familiar with it. Textpattern did ...
Why Use a Database With a Small CMS? 30 Aug 2012 | 05:10 pm
As the lead developer of the small CMS Perch, I’m often asked why we use a database at all, when Perch is aimed at smaller websites. There seems to be an assumption that using a relational database li...
How To Make Your Website Fast 17 Mar 2012 | 01:13 am
Since launching the new Greenbelt website this week, one thing a lot of people have commented on and asked about is the speed. It’s noticeably fast. I’ve never heard someone complain that they really ...
Ideas of March 15 Mar 2012 | 10:15 pm
If there’s one thing more tedious than blogging about blogging, it’s blogging about lack of blogging. But this post isn’t about that. It’s about the importance of blogs and the importance of sharing i...
How A Missing Favicon Broke My App for Chrome Users 15 Feb 2012 | 05:24 am
Excuse me while I let off some steam. I’ve just spent many hours debugging an authentication issue that was preventing Google Chrome users from logging into a PHP web app we’re currently working on. H...
The Best Forms Implementation I've Ever Built 20 Aug 2011 | 02:33 am
The one thing that will really kick your developers’ butts when building an interaction-heavy web app or site is the forms. Forms can be a lot of work to implement. Get the technical design of your fo...
The Lure of On-page Editing 29 Mar 2011 | 09:53 pm
I get asked quite often why Perch doesn’t offer any sort of on-page editing. It’s something we’ve given a lot of consideration to, and as it’s an interesting software design issue I thought I would do...
Ideas of March 15 Mar 2011 | 10:45 pm
When I started this site in 2003 — as best as I can tell it was 2003 — a individual’s personal site or blog was pretty much their primary method for joining the online conversation. If you had somethi...
