★ Choose Authors From Registered Users
I’ve made my first, hopefully useful for public consumption, plugin for WordPress. I’ve made a few other plugins, but none of them seemed to be really useful or customizable to benefit others. About...
View Article★ SSH into networked computer on Mac OSX
I’ve written occasionally about my experiences with Ubuntu Linux. Since I got accustomed to the system, everything has been overwhelmingly positive, especially when it relates to using Ubuntu for...
View Article★ Google to support microformats and RDFa
Today, we have been informed that Google will support microformats and RDFa, which are ways to give machine-readable semantic structure, meaning, and connection to a web document. These methods are...
View Article★ Beginning Android development
Recently, I have started to work with Android, Google’s system for smartphones. This is mostly a work-related endeavor, though I am incredibly curious. I’ve wanted an iPhone since they came out, but...
View Article★ Default .htaccess file for all sites
Most of the sites I work with on a daily basis run on Linux servers, and run under the Apache web server. This gives me all the benefits and stresses of using .htaccess files to control things, from...
View ArticleThe WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
HT Jonathan Christopher: A standardized, organized, object-oriented foundation for building high-quality WordPress Plugins.
View ArticleAdactio: Journal—Angular momentum
When it comes to choosing software that’s supposed to help you work faster—a JavaScript framework, for example—there are many questions you can ask: Is the code well-written? How big is the file size?...
View ArticleLet Links Be Links · An A List Apart Article
The web is the universal information platform. It doesn’t matter if somebody visits a website on a $2,000 iMac, or a $50 Android tablet, or the $5 web client of a future we can’t even imagine yet—in...
View ArticleMore Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait
When I talk about web performance, I like to use the phrase, “weight does not need to increase wait.” To be clear, that’s not because the weight of a webpage doesn’t matter—it most definitely does—but...
View ArticleHere’s one way to be skeptical of tech people
While I’m a tech person — I’ve been working full-time on the web for more than a decade — I spend most of my time away from work (and these days, most of my coworkers aren’t tech people either) around...
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