Monthly Archives: March 2010

Social Media End Game

Posted on Tue 30 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

From Tom Johnson’s When Social Media Becomes Hollow post, the emphasis is mine: It’s not that I dislike Twitter or blogging or podcasting or Facebook or the infinite number of new social sites. For me, it’s the idea that social … Continue reading →

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PHP Tip: Spaces Are Not empty()

Posted on Mon 29 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

It can be really easy to get tripped up by PHP’s empty and isset functions. I just came across a bug in some code that was using empty() to check for something so I thought this was a good time … Continue reading →

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Recommended Reading: Simon Willison

Posted on Mon 29 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

If you are into web tech then Simon Willison should be on your reading list. His list of links and commentary are a filtering system that I rely on for finding out about other interesting things that are going on. … Continue reading →

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Database Powered CSS in WordPress Themes

Posted on Thu 25 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

A popular ability in WordPress themes is to add custom CSS driven by options. This brings up a common question, how should the theme inject custom CSS? I’ll outline three different approaches on how to do this. These aren’t new, … Continue reading →

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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff – 4th Amendment vs. 10th Amendment

Posted on Mon 22 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’ve never met Mark Shurtleff, the Attorney General for the state of Utah, but lately he’s shown up in news items that I’ve read. Earlier it was over HB 150, a bill to provide warrantless data request powers to the … Continue reading →

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Contributing to WordPress

Posted on Sat 20 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

Inspired by Brad Fitzpatrick’s post here is a reminder about how to contribute to WordPress – http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress. As a bonus check out How does code make it into WordPress – http://codex.wordpress.org/How_does_code_make_it_into_WordPress.

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PHP Helpers: curl_http_request

Posted on Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

cURL is one very handy program and library, I love having access to in PHP. It has a ton of options though, and I can never seem to remember to flip the right knobs without reviewing the options list. 99% … Continue reading →

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Samuel James Seymour and the Lincoln Assassination

Posted on Mon 15 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

Seven or eight years ago Sarah and I were watching old episodes of I’ve Got a Secret from the 1950s. One specific guest stood out and gave me the chills – Samuel James Seymour, he was in Ford’s Theater the … Continue reading →

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Silverlight Only at Utah Code Camp

Posted on Mon 8 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

I got an email announcing an upcoming Utah Code Camp, scheduled for the last Saturday of this month. So I headed over to utahcodecamp.com and got this: A giant black screen with small icon at the top center that said … Continue reading →

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mod_ping, Maybe I Should Have Called It PubSubHubbub

Posted on Thu 4 Mar 2010 by Joseph Scott

ReadWriteWeb has an article about Google potentially using PuSH to get updates into the search index. I knew this idea sounded familiar so I went hunting through some of my old posts and found – Apache Module Idea mod_ping from … Continue reading →

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