[This is part 3 of a 3-part series] Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This was originally a video (included below), and these words suplement and distill what I say in the video. This series was originally inspired by a video, which you can see here: Web Design for Print Designers — Videos. Design Process [...]
Web Design for Print Designers, pt. 2
[This is part 2 of a 3-part series] Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This was originally a video (included below), and these words suplement and distill what I say in the video. This series was originally inspired by a video, which you can see here: Web Design for Print Designers — Videos. . Principles [...]
New developments in web app frameworks-Node.js
Told to me by the same clever man at NextSpace, whose name I did not get, Node.js is a server-side web application framework written in Javascript, that has been getting a lot of attention. Even though it is written in JavaScript, you can actually write it in CoffeeScript, a simple Ruby-like language that is compiled [...]
New developments in web app frameworks-Backbone.js
Okay, this is just a summary of a few things I’ve been made aware of recently that seem cool and useful. It’s wonderful to see how people are sorting out the most useful things these days, and, often, making them popular. Clearly presented, well-documented, well-designed things, that take off because of that. How nice. Backbone.js [...]
jQuery.fixture for prototyping Ajax Development
This is a neat thing if you are developing a RESTful application, but you do not have the REST server at the other end, or you are waiting for someone else to develop it. [Link] If I had known about this a little while ago, I might not have had to build my own test [...]
Remove unwanted meta boxes from \WordPress Write Panels
Here is the code. Comment out the ones you don’t want to remove.
Using Plugins for Custom Client Functions
photo credit: romana klee This just never occurred to me: That you might want to use plugins when developing custom features for a client, rather than simply include the code in the functions.php file (or an extension of same). Now, because the plugin was not necessarily for general consumption, there could still be an awful [...]
A shell scrtipt for changing permissions on \files in a good way
This is basic for some of you, and greek for others. Thanks to Chris Miler for the “find” portion. There are a couple of things I regularly want to do when I upload site files to my staging site. Change the owner of the file to the FTP user (so I can easily FTP up [...]