December 1st – 24th has become an especially rewarding time for web developer geeks. I believe “24 Ways” was the first, starting up in 2005, but several more have popped up in other areas such as PHP, HTML5, and performance. Check in on each of the links below, once a day til the end of [...]
Since, it took me over an hour to diagnose and fix this issue in one of my own WordPress installations, I thought I would write up a quick how-to on the solution to this issue to hopefully save others in wasting their own time. Symptom: Accessing the Edit screen via WordPress Admin showed a blank [...]
Evernote is a free service that allows you to “remember everything”. Think of it as a backup for your brain. With desktop, mobile, and web based interfaces, along with state-of-the-art OCR capabilities, it is literally possible to record nearly anything you see each day and have it automatically cataloged so that is is accessible and [...]
While I work on finishing up an overdue post on the amazing An Event Apart San Francisco conference I attended last week, I thought I would at least write about one of the many new concepts that was discussed. Progressive Enhancement (PE) is the concept of adding functionality or enhancements to the presentation and behavior [...]
Web developers need to have a tons of languages and syntaxes in their short term memories – HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Microformats, Regular Expressions – its a lot to know and remember. When I studied for big exams in college, my favorite technique was to create an all encompassing one-page sheet with everything I [...]
