I saw on twitter that John Gardner was looking for a way to loop through his WordPress categories and then display all posts that belonged to that category below it. I thought it was a great question / problem to solve so I did a quick tutorial on how to do so.
If you haven’t heard, the New York Times has implemented a paywall where you can only view 20 articles a month. After that they throw an overlay on top of the content so you can’t view it.
Since they still want to be indexed by search engines, they don’t bother to hide the content once you have reached your 20 max. Two simple lines of CSS will hide this. I’ve also made it into a Chrome Extension
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Yesterday Firefox 4.0 was released and web developers everywhere celebrated a really great browser. The browser comes packed with a super fast JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey. Now don’t get too excited just yet! We still need to keep that old version of Firefox around for testing; we can’t assume everyone has upgraded to Firefox 4. So, to run both Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.0 on the same machine, just follow these simple steps: Continue reading
When migrating a site that has been around for a while, I often run into the problem where my MySQL Database is just too large to import via the web interface of PHPMyAdmin. Often times its to a server that doesn’t allow remote access to their databases. What is a poor dev to do? Continue reading
Had someone ask me today how to reset a password for a user (Admin or other) on a WordPress account. Its acutally very easy to do, so here is a quick guide! Continue reading
Every now and then I like to play with the API of a social networking site. Burstn is an photo sharing website that allows users to quick snap photos and upload them to their website. Lucky for me, their API is fairly wide open, allows to easy calling, and returns a super nice JSON response. My idea is to ping the Burstn API for a timeline of public photos, parse the JSON response, and plot them on a Google Map based on their Lat and Long positions. Sound fun? Lets go! Continue reading
Was helping someone out in the jQuery IRC channel today and they were having some trouble with a JSON api that they were using. To simply put it they wanted to:
Now the example given is great, however it doesn’t jive well when you want to add in a friendly library like jQuery. So here is how we fixed it: Continue reading
This is a little code snippet that I use in almost every project that isn’t based on a popular CMS. Since its fairly expensive to hit the database on every page load, its a smart idea to cache the plain HTML markup of your page and serve that up. You can set how often the page cache is flushed out depending on how often you update your site’s content. Continue reading
The web is filled with with online applications and services that “Only cost a few bucks a month!”. While they are certainly a lot cheaper than buying desktop software, not all of them area always worth it. These are the apps that I feed a few bucks to each month. Continue reading