Quid pro quo (santa math)
Walk up to the falafel stand and hand the guy $3. He hands you a falafel, no onions.
This for that.
Something for something.
The time between surrendering the money and getting the sandwich is tiny. You gave him something, you got something. It’s simple.
Now, stretch it out a bit. You order dinner in a restaurant. They treat you nicely, the room is beautiful, you enjoy the evening, then you pay the bill. This, pause, pause, pause, tha Read the rest of this entry »\'
Archive for April, 2010
Small Business Success Secrets: Do what you love!
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices course, May-July 2010
Looking to learn more about developing for the Mobile Web? How about giving W3C’s online course Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices a shot?
This course is an updated version of a course that’s been run several times over the past years – three times last year actually. Read more about why you should attend the course and browse the Read the rest of this entry »\'
Backing up your WordPress database with WP-DB-Backup
I emphasized the importance of backing up in my basic security tutorial, but I discovered all of the backup tutorials I found were out of date. So here’s a tutorial on backing up your WordPress database with the terrific WP-DB-Backup plugin. The great thing about this plugin is that you can have it automatically send
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Web Inspector adds Timeline and Audits panels
The latest set of improved and new features to the WebKit Web Inspector are really great. I mean really great as in “I’m not so sure how much I’ll be using Firebug anymore.”
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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/19
Reflections
Perfect for photofolio blogs or websites using WordPress. Support threaded comments and pretty simple to use. Page in Malay
Homage
Homage is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a right-hand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments.
K9
K2 inspired theme for WordPress. Key features include: widgets support, custom header, threaded
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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/17
New Plugins
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter creates a draggable window with informations about all functions hooked to Wordpress actions and filters, and lists all conditional tags.
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars converts avatars from people that don’t have a Gravatar, into customized unicorns.
Tal.ki Embeddable Forums
Add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog. This
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VideoPress Review
Within this review, I will provide an objective view on the video-hosting service called VideoPress (owned by Automattic).
Now I will be one of the first to admit that I am somewhat of an Automattic fanboi. I love WordPress, and use several of Automattic’s other services. However, even I was skeptical of what I
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NING Closes
Millions of NING communities are going to need a new home. Megastarmedia.com offers a SAFE solution, own your own NING social network.
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How To improve basic security on a fresh WordPress install
WordPress developers take security very seriously, and many security experts evaluate WordPress’s code for flaws. Security updates are made frequently to keep users safe. However, there are some extra steps you can take to make a fresh installation of WordPress more secure and protect against future attacks. Remember, no system can ever be completely secure,
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Designing with Progressive Enhancement (Book review)
Whenever I hold workshops or lectures on web development, I talk a lot about Progressive enhancement. To me it is the obvious and only sensible way of building websites and web applications.
With that said, you can bet I was very pleased to learn that Designing with Progressive Enhancement was being worked on. A whole book coveri Read the rest of this entry »\'