Recent articles form the tech blog

Download Per Page Sidebar blocks plugin for WordPress This plugin is being submitted to the WordPress repository. For now, you can download it here: Download Per Page Sidebar Blocks v1.0 The plugin is now available in the WordPress repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/per-page-sidebar-blocks/ Background and goals of this plugin Part of offering WordPress as a CMS to my clients [...]

The problem After much research, I can only assume this special price issue not working properly is a bug in Magento. The only accepted solution was to visit the admin page System > Configuration and Reindex the Data for Product Prices. Fine, but I can’t tell my client to log into his admin every morning [...]

I recently came across Peacemaker, an app by Futuremark, that tests your internet browser for javascript performance. The image above shows my results after running it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9. I should also note that I had 4 other tabs going in Chrome during the test, including Slacker Radio, but it didn’t seem to [...]

What software to use? No need to over-complicate things by learning some new fancy software. You can use Microsoft Word, Wordpad, Open Office, or any familiar text editor. I prefer Microsoft Word because it helps markup my content into something search engines and browsers can understand. If you don’t know HTML, this is the route [...]

For legality’s sake, let’s say the scammer was trying to impersonate Uppercase Two Bank. Overall appearance At first glance, the email seems legitimate enough. However, I notice inconsistencies in the design. You don’t have to be a graphic designer to get an overall blegh feeling  from this email. There’s at least 5 different types of fonts, [...]

Over the years of working with the Symfony PHP framework I have had moments of conflict about whether I made the right choice to use the Propel ORM. Both Propel and Doctrine have amazing features but ultimately I like the Propel style. Development on the project waxes and wanes but as of late it has [...]

Download My Company Menu plugin for WordPress This plugin is being submitted to the WordPress repository. For now, you can download it here: mycomp-menu-v1.0.zip The plugin is now available in the WordPress repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-company-menu/ Background and goals of this plugin This plugin is intended for theme developers who build WordPress websites for other businesses. WordPress [...]

Accessing network shares on Mac is simple, but what if someone wants multiple shares with quick access to them on their desktop? In my experience, this can get a little tricky. Multiple instances of Finder I setup the drives to mount at startup, but each drive opens a separate instance of Finder after login. I found [...]

If you have been having this issue with the Paste from Word feature in TinyMCE (and other WYSIWYG editors) for WordPress (and other CMSs), it could be the Style Set you’re using in Microsoft Word. The Problem: Unexpected results I love using the Paste from Word feature for marking up text with proper tags like [...]

Open Source WordPress is an open-source project maintained by the community and Automattic. It offers big benefits: Free to use and modify as needed Beautiful and intuitive user interface Simple, powerful and expandable foundation for websites Thousands of 3rd party plugins, usually decreasing development time Great documentation and community support Search Engine Optimization Another big [...]