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WordPress Plugin Directory

18.Mar.07 | 2 Comments

Last week it was announced that there’s a new shiny WordPress Plugins Directory. There’s always been a developer focused site there, but for end users it just wasn’t all that great or friendly. This should really help WordPress users find and locate plugins now. Assuming developers are willing to migrate to [...]

Works on My Machine

16.Mar.07 | 1 Comment

Queue howls of laughter:

The new certification that I’m going to try and incorporate as part of our QA program at work (ok, not really… well maybe…).
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, with a straight face, “Gee, I dunno — it works on my machine.” In fact, 10 or 15 years ago [...]

Humility and building a WordPress Plugin

09.Feb.07 | 3 Comments

I've blown most of the last two hours trying to write, what seems to me, a very simple WordPress plugin.
I hate being humbled.
I can get it to show up in the Plugin Page listing and activate, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I gotta find some geekier contacts, this is [...]

XML Notepad 2007

27.Nov.06 | 3 Comments

Just a couple months after XML Notepad 2006 was introduced, we now have XML Notepad 2007. At first glance it looks to be an incremental update. Some new search hotkeys (yay!), a default XSL transform (useful) and some bug fixes.
I still have to play a bit, but the default XSL transform seems to [...]

Stupid Coder Trick of the Day

21.Oct.06 | Leave a Comment

I should start a weekly feature on this topic... lord knows, while I like to think I write decent code I also have a knack for pulling some real bone-headed stunts.
Today's stunt: Suppose you have the result set from a query fetching a list of email addresses. Your program needs to go through [...]

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