Archive for the ‘Screencast’ Category
Picking Projects Back Up
Friday, 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. [...]
WPMU Dev – Terrible Usability
Monday, 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 [...]
WordPress Screen Options
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Today we’ll look at a WordPress feature that many people just don’t know about. In all honesty I didn’t know about it till WordPress 3.0 came along and I wanted to add class names to my menus. There are lots of ways to clean up your dashboard and post editing screen and lots of ways [...]
WP e-Commerce Drag and Drop Sorting Bug
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Today we’ll look at a bug (yeah another one) in WP e-Commerce that deals with ajax product sorting. The short story is that if you use the drag and drop sorting of products while viewing all categories you’re screwed. Yeah that’s right you’ll get duplicate products and not all of the products will show up. [...]
WordPress 3.1 New Features
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Today we’ll go over some of the new features in WordPress 3.1 like the new Network Admin menu, the Snack Bar Plugin, internal linking, and Post Formats. For a full list of features visit WordPress.org
WordPress Taxonomy Images Plugin
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
Custom Taxonomies are awesome in WordPress but unfortunately most of the ‘solutions’ to various problems deal only with categories or tags still. Recently I had to add an image to my custom taxonomies and @_mfields again had a plugin that solved my problem. Unfortunately there was one little ‘gotcha’ with the plugin which we’ll go [...]
WordPress Menu UI
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Today we’ve just got a quick comment on how I think the WordPress menu UI could be improved.
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This is the second part to getting a Windows machine set up for Ruby on Rails Development by having Ubuntu running inside Virtualbox. View Part 1 here. Today’s screencast will walk through installing Ruby, rubygems 1.3.5 and Rails with rubygems, and SqLite3 as well as installing my preferred code editor Komodo Edit. Watch the screencast [...]
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 1
Monday, September 14th, 2009
I recently purchased a new computer and had to get Ruby on Rails installed on it. Up to this point I’ve been using my wife’s Macbook for ROR development on weekends. It was time to make the jump to a dedicated environment that didn’t interfere with the Facebook cravings of the wife. Instead of just [...]
