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August 13th, 2011

Word Camp SF 2011 Takeaways

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

How to Create, Read, and Update a Cookie using JavaScript

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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March 17th, 2011

How to create a custom single.php Template in WordPress

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

Getting started with git

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

How to Create a Flexible Page Template Using Custom Fields

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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