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Programming

Friday Five: Feeds to Follow

Friday August 7, 2009

Five great development blogs to which you should subscribe: DevTips (subscribe) ProBlogDesign (subscribe) David Walsh Blog (subscribe) NETTUTS (subscribe) Raymond Selda (subscribe)

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If you’re editing a WordPress theme template file by adding a call to a plugin’s function, you need to be careful. In six months or a year you’re going to deactivate or delete that plugin, and you’re going to get a big ugly fatal PHP error on your blog. You can avoid it, though, by [...]

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Today I’m going to explain how to make your WordPress blog display a special note based on a tag associated with a post. This tip is uniquely written for users of Chris Pearson’s awesome Thesis Theme, but if you are crafty enough with WordPress, you’ll be able to use it regardless of the theme you’re [...]

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What Have You Tried?

Tuesday January 27, 2009

Over at mattgemmell.com I just found an excellent article about software development and a must-read for any programmer, at any level: If you’re a developer and you’re about to ask another developer a technical question (on a forum, via email, on a chat channel, or in person), you’d better be ready to answer the question [...]

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Parsing PHP in CSS

Wednesday October 1, 2008

Pro-Tip: Tell your website to treat CSS files as if they’re PHP files to make life easier. There are only two simple things you need to do to enable this!

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Slicing Code with a Rusty Razor Blade

Tuesday March 25, 2008

A year or two ago I was returning to my office from lunch with some co-workers. I spotted an old, rusty, razor blade on the sidewalk. “You don’t see that every day,” I said. In retrospect I was probably wrong. Everyone likely sees dozens of rusty razor blades on sidewalks and in gutters every day. [...]

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Computer Programming

Friday August 24, 2007

Found: One brilliant article about being a programmer Source: MeFi

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I Always Said ColdFusion Sucked

Wednesday June 27, 2007

I was glad to see ColdFusion make it on this list of the top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills. It’s a ridiculous “language” that I never bothered to learn and used to tell people was craptastic and worthless when it was brand new and everybody and their mother was looking for people that knew [...]

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Delete Empty Folders

Saturday April 21, 2007

Looking for a way to clear some of your computer’s clutter? Getting rid of empty directories is a good start. I was looking for a file and realized that my machine was spending a long time searching through folders that I knew had nothing in them. A quick Google search returned a handy DOS trick [...]

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WordPress Gunning-Fog Analysis PlugIn

Saturday March 31, 2007

A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to build a WordPress plugin to display a Gunning-Fog analysis on his blog. The math part was pretty easy stuff. I was having a borch of a time getting the plugin to count syllables, so I hunted through Google and found someone else had written [...]

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