January 3rd, 2012
Web Designer 191 is out (at least in Europe and will be on shore in North America shortly), and with it comes a feature article titled ‘Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme’ which I wrote most of. You can get it digitally on you iOS device through Newsstand and in Chapters in Canada. I have no [...]
January 2nd, 2012
Rant warning. Just trying to get my bill from Telus (my local ISP) and what do I find, but a site that won’t load my eBills in Chrome. It works in Firefox and according to Telus it works in IE9 but only if you use compatibility mode. Telus Canada get your head out of your [...]
December 31st, 2011
Over a year ago my wife and I were privileged to invite a little girl in to our lives, whome we named Eden. As we live in 2 bedroom house my office was changed in to a room for her and I moved my office in to our bedroom. In all honesty the office in [...]
October 8th, 2011
I’ve been using MacVim as my sole code editor for almost a year now and have started to modify the stock config presented in Janus. Today with the suggestion of @matthewlang I’ve got two new items to add to my .vim configuration. VimRoom Brings distraction free writing to Vim/MacVim. One thing I really find frustrating [...]
September 22nd, 2011
I’m reorganizing my sites and their content. I’ll be putting all my future writing on WordPress over at WP Theme Tutorial. I’ll be covering a bunch of fairly deep topics so if you’re interested in learning more about how WordPress works and how to build projects with it go subscribe to the feed.
August 19th, 2011
We all have to stop working at some point every day, but how do we remember where we left off on the project? Today I’ve got a few tips around how I remember where I was in my code and how I keep track of all of the tabs I had open for a project. [...]
August 15th, 2011
Recently Adobe released Muse which is supposed to bring the world of web design to print designers. Sure I can agree that there are a lot of awesome print designers not building stuff for the web, but there are a lot of web designers not doing print work. They’re two different mediums that require specialized [...]
August 1st, 2011
Yes another rant post. After probably the fourth call from a number I dont know went to voicemail I questioned on Twitter to see if others treat their phones like me. Phone Etiquette I don’t answer my phone unless I know who it is (caller ID) and it is the proper time for me to [...]
June 28th, 2011
One of the first things you should do when building a WordPress theme/plugin is turn on WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file. Turning this on will make sure that you get notices for bad functions, deprecated items in your files…Every theme/site I build has this flag set in development (don’t set it on the production server). [...]
June 20th, 2011
As with much blogging this screencast is born of a rant about how WPMU Dev disrespects paying customers with their stupid WordPress admin notifications. After all the stuff that flies around about them plus the terrible usability and the long on promise short on delivery stuff regarding their plugins in their forums I’m not a [...]
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