Posted under: Blog
August 13th, 2011
This year I finally got to attend my first Word Camp, and right here in my backyard: San Francisco! It was great to get out and mingle with so many people that are as enthusiastic about this CMS as I am. I think one of the most interesting questions I heard asked today was one asked to the Core Developer team, that went something like this: “Why is it that you’re so committed to developing for WordPress, and not one of the other various platforms out there?”
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July 27th, 2011
While working on the redesign of the New York Law Journal, I was tasked with creating a pop-up message that was supposed to appear based on some logic that the business folks had. Basically, the message was supposed to appear once per week, but no more than a total of 8 times, and then should never appear again. In order to make this happen, I employed a few http cookies by way of JavaScript.
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Posted under: Portfolio
July 15th, 2011
I recently had to replace the hard drive on my MacBook, and the backup/restore process from my Time Machine went flawlessly. Except for one thing: the first time I went to work on one of my projects, I received a “git: command not found” message when running “git status” in my project directory. Git was installed, so I knew there had to be some configuration issue. After a little searching, it seemed like my path was incorrect.
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March 26th, 2011
I’m sure we’ve all been there: when you or your client launched your WordPress website you thought the best thing to title one of your pages was “Foo” or some other such silliness. After a few months you realize that a better page name would be “Bar” and you want your URL to reflect that. So you login to your WordPress admin, change your “Foo” page title and slug to “Bar,” and click save. Done, right? Well, almost.
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March 17th, 2011
Have you ever needed or wanted to create a custom single.php template that would only be used by posts of a certain type? When I was building the FARMcurious site I needed a way to display blog posts and product posts in different ways. The products single template needed to show price, product info, photos, and be laid out differently than blog post single template.
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January 30th, 2011
Up until a few months ago, I never really needed to bother myself with a Version Control System (VCS). For freelance work, things were simple enough to the point where I’d 1) Develop a website locally and then 2) Upload code to the server, and that was pretty much the end of it. At the office our CMS took care of most things, and for things it didn’t cover, we’d adopted a system of making a backup of the last file and going from there.
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January 17th, 2011
While working with my friends over at Gastronaut, they asked me if I could develop a way for them to create blog pages for each of their clients on the fly. For instance, if they acquired ACME Corp as a client, they wanted to be able to create a new page for ACME corp that would then have a list of blog posts that were only for ACME.
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