Category: Random

Adding Scripts – WordPress Child Theme Gotcha
September 29, 2010
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Curtis McHale
While converting a heavily customized premium theme into a proper WordPress child theme I came across a gotcha in WordPress. If you look at the WordPress Codex information on adding scripts to your theme all of the code samples tell you to find the script by using get_bloginfo(‘template_directory’); Unfortunately if you’re dealing with a child…
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Having Fun with the WordPress post_class()
August 17, 2010
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Curtis McHale
While I know that the WordPress post_class(); has been around since WordPress 2.7 I recently just stumbled upon it for some recent projects. Unfortunately, while post_class(); gave me a ton of function that I needed, I still needed to extend it just a bit to suit the project specific needs. What is post_class(); Stealing directly…
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Missing the Forest for the Trees When Coding
August 5, 2010
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Curtis McHale
As a programmer I spend hours each day (yeah even many weekends) looking at code and while I love it there seems to be one specific issue that keeps getting me, missing obvious mistakes in my own code. The Catalyst The issue that finally broke my will to live and made me write this blog…
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Keep It all Backed Up
July 10, 2010
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Curtis McHale
Spurred on by a recent tweet about backing up your data I figured I’d write about how I setup the backup for my own machines. Unlike many reading this (or talking about it on forums) I haven’t had a drive failure. I’ve never lost data. I setup a solid backup without learning the lesson first…
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Using Vim as a Text Editor
July 3, 2010
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Curtis McHale
This is a guest post by Alan Bailward a long time advocate of Vim and friend. Introduction When Curtis first asked me to write about my programming workflow, I thought to myself “why would anyone care about a simple setup like I have?”, and told Curtis as such. Then a few days later I was…
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The Case Against WordPress Plugins
June 29, 2010
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Curtis McHale
As suggested by the comments this is probably better titled as: Why I Prefer Not to Use Plugins in WordPress WordPress is a great open source CMS. Out of the box it has a ton of functionality and the huge community that exists around it contributes plugins and patches which are often very high quality.…
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The Essentials of my OSX Setup
May 13, 2010
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Curtis McHale
Of course this site is about the tools you use to do your job and I mention in passing what I personally use but really the podcast is about the guests. Today I’ll list my essentials for working on OSX. In a future post I’ll list the same for Windows and Linux. Applications Web Development…
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Episode 3 – Frank Barrett
May 12, 2010
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Curtis McHale
Welcome to the 3rd episode of Your Workflow, a podcast and blog on the tools you use to do your job and why you use them. Today we’re talking with Frank Barrett. Frank is an IT pro, and master beer brewer. He blogs at Frank Barrett’s Brain and cohosts a podcast called NextGenMedia Podcast which…
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Episode 2 – iKitty
May 4, 2010
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Curtis McHale
In episode 2 we talk with @iKitty. Kitty is a graphic designer from Guatemala. We discuss her food photography, and the differences between the tools in North America and Guatemala. Kitty also mentioned that she wanted to remove the Spotlight icon from the menu bar and I found a way to do it remove spotlight…
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Where Applications Break Smooth Workflow
April 29, 2010
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Curtis McHale
This blog is to talk about the tools you use and why you use them, it also stands to reason that we should talk about the things in our lives and workflow that are painful and we haven’t found any solution for. With the rage being in web apps vs. desktop apps now I think…
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