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I May Be Ridiculously Good Looking, But It’s My Choice If I Want To Be Seen Naked 26 Jul 2013 | 11:35 pm
Walking down the street, no matter how ridiculously hot you are, you can expect that you can keep on the clothing you choose to wear. Even if every passer by wants to see you naked. You may choose to ...
Add Classes to Menu Items in WordPress 26 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Let’s say you want to style each category differently across your site. Go rainbow. How do you target the menu items? If you try targeting them specifically, menu-item-641 might change. What if you’d...
Keeping WordPress Safe, and Updatable 21 Jun 2013 | 09:00 pm
After setting up a WordPress install, there are three magic lines I run from the newly installed WordPress working directory. The first two set the file and folder permissions to the recommended sett...
Thoughts about “Man of Steel” 21 Jun 2013 | 09:03 am
<Spoilers>So I think that the problem stems from the fact that they are trying to make it the first movie of several. So they are thinking of this movie as a part of a bigger story. On top of that, Su...
Why Technology Killing Jobs is a Good Thing 13 Jun 2013 | 08:23 pm
technological progress is eliminating the need for many types of jobs and leaving the typical worker worse off than before - Brynjolfsson and McAfee This is scary for a lot of people. Forget having ...
How to Write a CSV Directly to PHP://Output I/O Buffer With fputcsv() 25 May 2013 | 12:55 am
Came across this gem half-way down the function page for fputcsv() on php.net Use an associative array for this so your keys will be the csv headers. Enjoy!
Turning Tricks: Using Action and Filter Hooks in WordPress 22 May 2013 | 09:36 am
I spoke at the fantastic WordPress NYC Meetup tonight on the topic of Hooks in WordPress. The video should be up shortly, but here are my slides. (download links below) Download pdf | Download code ...
Using AJAX in WordPress Development. The Quick-and-Dirty QuickStart Guide 25 Mar 2013 | 01:29 am
There are some great posts and a fantastic wiki page explaining how to use AJAX in WordPress. But I haven’t found a quick plug-and-play tutorial. So here goes… The problem: A simple form that will gi...
WordPress postmeta is useful, but be careful 4 Feb 2013 | 04:14 am
The add_post_meta, delete_post_meta, update_post_meta, and get_post_meta functions are really useful. It’s the perfect place to store information about a post. Many plugins take advantage of this stor...
No Thanks to Parallels… VMWare Rocks! 28 Jan 2013 | 04:43 am
Being an Apple fanboy (at least for now) my main devices tend to be Apple. But as a Front-end Developer I still need to test my sites in Internet Explorer. I found that, truly, the best way is in Virt...