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Securing Forms Without Captcha 29 May 2013 | 08:30 pm
Captchas are a terrible user experience. They put the onus of spam protection on the visitor filling out the form and, personally, show me how lazy you are as a site administrator. There are a hundre...
WordPress Plugin Structure 27 Dec 2012 | 09:00 pm
The power of WordPress lies in its pluggable infrastructure. Unlike other content management applications which require you to edit the core code of the system to make changes, WordPress supports plu...
jQuery as a Global Event Bus 17 Oct 2012 | 08:00 pm
Some time ago, I made a mistake. Rather than taking the time to truly understand how events worked in jQuery, I built my own JavaScript library to handle event delegation. It worked, but why reinvent...
Using XML-RPC in WordPress 9 Oct 2012 | 08:00 pm
It was brought to my attention last week that there aren’t very many good tutorials on the web regarding the use of XML-RPC in WordPress. Sure, there are plenty that talk about how easy it is to use ...
Theme-ready Shortcodes in WordPress 5 Oct 2012 | 08:00 pm
A few months back, I taught you how to make your widgets theme-ready by extracting the actual markup into an overridable template. Now, we’re going to do the same for shortcodes. And for those of you...
The Anatomy of an Exploit 1 Aug 2012 | 12:00 am
I’m a huge fan of security. I spend many a weekend experimenting with new encryption techniques, hash algorithms, and security protocols. As a result, I also come across several different server explo...
Doing it Wrong the Right Way 17 Jul 2012 | 11:00 pm
Telling someone there’s a right way to include a plugin in a theme is like telling someone there’s a right way to cheer for the Beavers during the Oregon Civil War. There is no right way. However, t...
Doing it Wrong the Right Way 17 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Telling someone there’s a right way to include a plugin in a theme is like telling someone there’s a right way to cheer for the Beavers during the Oregon Civil War. There is no right way. However, the...
Why Sponsor WordCamp Portland 12 Jul 2012 | 06:33 am
This August, I’ll be attending WordCamp Portland. I’ll also be speaking at WordCamp Portland. Last week, I also decided to sponsor WordCamp Portland. Why all the investment? It’s simple. I love P...
Why Sponsor WordCamp Portland 11 Jul 2012 | 09:00 pm
This August, I’ll be attending WordCamp Portland. I’ll also be speaking at WordCamp Portland. Last week, I also decided to sponsor WordCamp Portland. Why all the investment? It’s simple. I love Port...
