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Those of you that have been around me, any at all, over the past 6-8 months know that I’ve been working hard on educating folks in the area about WordPress1. For whatever reason it is something that I really have a passion about and for once in a really long time I’ve been pursuing that [...]
As some of you may know, one of the plugins I’ve written for WordPress is WordPress File Monitor. It basically keeps a listing of the files on your website and sends you an email alert as well as displaying an optional dashboard alert whenever a change is detected (a change is defined as a file [...]
While working on a site recently, a common problem was run into using WordPress as a full fledged CMS. The issue was needing to have multiple content areas within the same Page. For a developer (front end or back end) this typically isn’t an issue, even inside of WordPress. Since the content area allows you [...]
I’ve released a new WordPress plugin called WordPress File Monitor. Essentially, it keeps track of what files are installed in your WordPress install (or site) and watches for files being added/deleted/changed. One catch is that it does rely on WordPress being able to load in order to do its work. So if the malicious individual [...]
Bobby asks: What is the best web language today? What is the worst web language? Does the practice of one vs another show the capabilities of the developer, or the limitations of the task? Those are some tough questions to answer. I’ve somewhat talked about this before. I would probably say that the problem is [...]
I’ve been doing lots of research lately on efficiencies you can put in place on your website to make it more efficient from a load time perspective, which gives a better experience for your visitors. The problem is none of the sources I’ve been reading from seem to want to put it all together in [...]
Well, I decided to install Leopard not too long ago. When I did it, I decided to go with a clean install, which meant basically destroying my development environment. So I finally went through and got everything setup so I can have local URL’s for sites I’m working on, MySQL, Apache/PHP, etc. I have to [...]
Jim decided to respond to my post regarding language vs. language debates, specifically looking at PHP and Ruby / Ruby on Rails. He makes some good points, but there is some stuff that I’d like to respond to and clarify… To say that one language is better than the other is meaningless. Better in what [...]
(Fair warning, if you aren’t a nerd, you might want to skip this post) Are we (programmers, developers, engineers) still really having these debates? Give me a break. Java vs. .NET, Java vs. PHP, .NET vs. PHP, now Ruby on Rails vs. PHP. The other day, Jeremy, sent me these. They’re a series of videos [...]
Launched our new website at work today, definitely happy to have that out the door.