I’ve spent a good deal of time this week working on a little project using the Code Igniter framework. This is a liberally licensed PHP framework that does some of the same MVC stuff that Rails does for Ruby and CakePHP also does for PHP, but it’s a bit less rigid – which I like.…
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It’s taken me 3 years to get to this point, but I’m finally able to “turn off” my business e-mail in the evening and on weekends. This has been a very liberating thing for me. I stick the e-mails in a “To Reply” folder and address them first thing in the morning the next business…
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I don’t know how I missed upgrading to the latest Firebug for so long, but I’m kicking my own arse for not getting on it sooner. Scott: I hope you are using FireBug by now. This thing rocks Alex: been using it for a few years Scott: the newest version is awesome with debugging and…
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Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. I want my site to work the way I want it to. Sometimes this matches the way WordPress works right out of the box, sometime it doesn’t – that is where my plugins come in. I’m using over 20…
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Crossing the line between favors and actually doing paid contract work for a friend can be tough decision. Once money and deliverables get involved, it can definitely introduce new issues and points of contention to your friendship. Before you agree to do the work, you better be darn sure you can deliver. 🙂 Steve O’Grady…
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I’m getting e-mails (and comments) from people asking where they can get a copy of Share This (my social web/e-mail plugin for WordPress) for: Moveable Type (and TypePad) Drupal Blogger LiveJournal Firefox Extension Safari Extension Greasemonkey scripts for inclusion in web-based apps like Bloglines, Google Reader, etc. Add more in the comments… I haven’t built…
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I get a fair number of e-mails asking if the Font Size switcher in my sidebar is a WordPress plugin or where to find it. I built it based on this tutorial at A List Apart. Sorry Safari users, Safari chokes hard on this technique. I recommend using a better browser. I also added this…
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Note: This is the seventh in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the great strengths of WordPress is its plugin system. In the upcoming 2.1 release, there is very little you can’t do as a drop-in plugin. This makes it easy to use WordPress as a CMS and keep…
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Wow – I just had one of the most unpleasant exchanges of my life with a lady (who shall remain unnamed) at Anubis Marketing. I mean, this was completely surreal. She’s trying to convert a Moveable Type blog to WordPress for one of her customers, and since she “doesn’t know anything about Moveable Type” (her…
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My recent RAM shortage has had an interesting side effect. Instead of leaving a dozen or so apps open at once, I quit apps when I’m done using them. This has left me with a less cluttered workspace and more focus on the task at hand. Of course it also means that the apps I’m…
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I’ve created a web site for the Share Icon project: shareicons.com. I’ve released the icon concept under four licenses (quad-licensed): GPL LGPL BSD Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Right now I’ve got my initial icon concept up there since that is the one that got the most support here. This isn’t to say that this design…
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Bob had some good ideas from my previous concept, and I’ve come up with a second concept for a Share This icon based on one of them: Here they are in context with the Feed and OPML icons: Concept #1 Concept #2 Concept #2a Comments are open. This post is part of the project: Share…
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As previously discussed, I think it would be a good idea to come up with a generic “social bookmarking”/”sharing” icon for use with things like my Share This plugin. I’ve come up with a rough concept icon: It’s in the same vein as the feed icon as Chris discussed. The connected dots represent information/data/ideas passing…
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Since I’m already being paranoid with my backups, I figured a little additional offsite backup for the really critical stuff couldn’t hurt. The simplest solution is often the best: Amazon S3 JungleDisk rsync I’m storing a copy of my important MySQL data (my Tasks Pro™ data, the data for this site, the King Design site,…
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Sometimes I hate having an engineering brain . Last week I was asked about creating a mobile friendly version of my Share This plugin and I’ve also been asked about creating a version that works if JavaScript is disabled. Now I don’t think that realistically many folks are going to want to be posting stuff…