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Use the New WordPress 3.5 Color Picker in a Plugin 28 Nov 2012 | 04:47 am
One of the many new features in WordPress 3.5 is the Iris color picker. Iris replaces the, now deprecated, Farbtastic color picker script. The new Iris color picker is shown off in the Theme Customi...
Shortcodes Should Be a Last Resort 7 Nov 2012 | 02:18 am
I received an email inquiry from someone asking for help customizing a specific commercial theme. Reading the theme’s documentation, I was amazed that three entire pages were dedicated to shortcodes. ...
OpeninSublimeText.app: Open the Current Folder as a SublimeText2 Project from Finder 11 Oct 2012 | 02:12 am
I found this gem on Github today, OpeninSublimeText.app. I love all things SublimeText2 so I immediately installed the app. I am happy to give up a little section of my Finder bar to this useful appli...
Font Awesome Icons WordPress Plugin 18 Sep 2012 | 09:23 am
Font Awesome is my favorite of the free font icon sets. All of the 220 pixel perfect icons are well designed, have great cross-browser support and are easy to use. I am using the Font Awesome icon set...
WordPress Plugin Repository Now Requires Plugin URL 12 Sep 2012 | 12:57 am
I went to the WordPress Plugin Repository today to submit a new plugin. While going through the submission process, I stopped and smiled when I saw something new. The plugin submission form now has a ...
Calculated Web Development with Soulver 3 Sep 2012 | 07:50 pm
Soulver is a Mac application (they also have an iPad version) that has made my front-end development workflow much easier. CSS development requires a lot of simple calculations for element properties ...
I Love Open Source 30 Aug 2012 | 02:41 am
While working with the jQuery plugin HorizontalNav.js, I found a small bug in the code. In my project I was using HorizontalNav.js along with another plugin, Touchdown.js, and I am conditionally chang...
Bootstrap 2.1 is Going Purple 10 Jul 2012 | 09:31 pm
I pulled down the latest updates on the Bootstrap 2.1 WIP branch from Github and was surprised by a new color scheme on their homepage. Some other changes in their development branch are: Cleaner lo...
Slides from WordCamp Milwaukee Presentation on WordPress Navigation 3 Jun 2012 | 11:29 am
I held a session at WordCamp Milwaukee about WordPress Navigation Menus. I’ve shared the slides on SpeakerDeck, and you can download the child-theme with all the code referenced in the presentation fr...
What Entrepreneurs are Thinking 11 May 2012 | 03:49 am
So very true. Photo of slide from Ted Rheingold’s talk at Big Omaha 2012
