Review of Evernote on OS X
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I’ve been a long time Evernote user and have tried storing everything from receipts for purchases to code snippets in it. Today I figured I’d give you a quick walk through of my likes and dislikes of Evernote. The Good One of the absolutely standout features of Evernote is the text recognition on images. Seriously…
Building Good WordPress Themes – Error Logging
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We’re working on something like a series providing tips and talking about building solid WordPress themes. Today’s short tip is about setting debug options in your wp-config.php file. WP_DEBUG handles error display in WordPress. If you’re building a theme you need to make sure that no errors are a result of your theme. You can…
Don’t Worry About Bike Weight
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Go take a look at any cycling forum that has a large quantity of road bikers and you’ll see lots of discussion about the weight of part X or vs the weight of part Y. You may even find some people trying to figure out which hub has the least rolling resistance so that they…
WordPress StackExchange Question of the Week – November 15 – 21
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This weeks question is more a round up of WordPress resources. If you’re interested in WordPress development then hit up this list and start reading the blogs of some of the brightest minds in WordPress. Truth to tell there are probably more resources here than most people could go through on a regular basis.
You Make Your Comments Suck
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Today Smashing Magazine published a thoughtful article on the state of blog comments. They cite our lack of time, A+++ comments, and a bunch of other stuff while they talk to us about the lack of meaningful conversation in posts. Sure we’re all flying this way and that way online in our lives but I…
Adobe Makes Goodish
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So you read my rant that published last night about Adobe confirming a platform change for CS4 with their online support. Then when talking to them about actually doing it, now that a $2000 computer is in the house, the story changed. It seems that @MilesForrest sent that blog post on to Adobe and a…
Building High Quality WordPress Themes
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Lately I’ve been working through WordPress documentation on the recommended best practices for building WordPress themes. I figure that going through all the recommendations of WordPress not only teaches me how to be a better WordPress developer but also lets me server my clients better (and doing the best work for my clients is what…
I Wish Adobe Would Die – Or Adobe’s Customer Service Motto, We’re not happy till you’re not happy
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Update So Adobe got wind of this little blog post and got in touch. Greatly reduced cost on the upgrade to CS5. You can read my thoughts on it here. Recently I made the switch to a fully OS X environment. For a few months now I’ve been doing all my design work on PC…
Tips on Picking a WordPress Plugin
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On many of my long term projects my clients are heavily involved in the development cycles. We mark everything that’s not in the current cycle as a ‘future feature’ and collect information on it as we work out the items that are currently marked as features. Often, as we look at a particular piece of…
Threshold Ladders – Cycling Interval Workout
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Threshold ladders is an awesome interval workout to improve your lactic acid clearing ability. After your 60 second all out sprint it should be really hard to keep up the pace at 8 for 3 minutes. If you’re doing it right it should get harder as you do more sets. Don’t repeat this workout twice…