What Happens When the Website You Are Working on Blows Up?
It’s every developer’s nightmare. You finally get approval from the client to go live and launch the client’s website and then BOOM! Something happens and the whole site blows up. I recently had this scenario happen. Thankfully, the site wasn’t live yet, but the client still expected me to fix the site, with no offer...
Read more…Beginning jQuery: Your First Clean Tabbed Plugin
I’ve been spending a lot of time learning jQuery the past couple of weeks and I’ve never realized just how fun it is to work with (at least when it is working right) and I’ve already been able to write several of my own functions and plugins. The other day I wrote a basic tab...
Read more…Why I Love The Dev Community – Always
Yesterday I wrote an angry article about Why I Hate The Dev Community – Sometimes thanks to another article of mine being in the middle of a flame war. I realized that it wasn’t fair to talk about all things I hated about our community without also expanding upon all the awesome high points of...
Read more…Why I Hate The Dev Community – Sometimes
I have been a part of, and love, the dev community for many many years now. I’ve wanted to be a web developer all my life and appreciate the fact that I can support my lifestyle with it and that people look up to me to learn what I’ve learned. I’m very thankful for all...
Read more…Which Content Management System Should You Focus On?
The web is a fantastic place filled with everything anyone could ever want. The problem becomes though, is that there can be too much to choose from and we often suffer from choice paralysis–where we freeze up and are unable to choose anything at all. Choice is not something lacking in the development world either...
Read more…Working With WordPress 3.0′s Custom Post Types
Just last week I finally got the chance to try the new custom post types that came with WordPress 3. For some reason, I never thought about using them because I was so used to using custom fields for everything. After setting up some pre-made templates for a few clients that used custom post types,...
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