Monthly Archives: April 2010

Gmail Feature Adjustment Request

Posted on Wed 28 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’ve been using the Gmail web interface quite a bit, and for the most part I’ve adjusted to how it works. There is one thing that still bothers me though. When you have an email thread open and a new … Continue reading →

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Firebug Feature Request

Posted on Tue 27 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I really like Firebug, I highly recommend it (if you do web dev and haven’t used it then it is time to catch up). While trying to debug a particular problem with an image not loading correctly, I thought of … Continue reading →

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WordCamp San Francisco – 2010

Posted on Mon 26 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

This Saturday is WordCamp San Francisco! I’ll be there for WordCamp, the developer day and two day code sprint as well. This year I’ll be speaking at WordCamp, a more technical focused presentation on “Writing Responsible Plugin & Theme Code”. … Continue reading →

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sips – Mac OS X CLI Image Manipulation Tool

Posted on Thu 22 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I wonder how long sips (scriptable image processing system) has been around in Mac OS X? If you’re the type who has a terminal window open all the time any way (or a dozen of them) then this is a … Continue reading →

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Recommended Reading: James Hamilton

Posted on Tue 20 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

If you are really into the nuts and bolts of data centers, large scale networks, and large scale computing then James Hamilton‘s posts make for some good reading. He’s a “Vice President and Distinguished Engineer on the Amazon Web Services … Continue reading →

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Slides: Anatomy of a PHP Request

Posted on Mon 19 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

Here are the slides from my presentation last week at UPHPU – Anatomy of a PHP Request View more presentations from josephscott. I added it to my slides page.

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Webhooks on WordPress.com

Posted on Wed 14 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’m thrilled to have webhooks on WordPress.com open for everyone today! Eoin Gallagher and I used mitcho‘s HookPress WordPress plugin for this. I’ve been talking with mitcho and he’ll be incorporating some of our changes in the next release of … Continue reading →

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Utah PHP Users Group Presentation: Anatomy of a PHP Request

Posted on Fri 9 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I’ll be presenting at the next Utah PHP Users Group (UPHPU) meeting on Anatomy of a PHP Request: Ever wondered what really happens when your PHP script runs? I’ll cover the major milestones in the life and times of a … Continue reading →

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Efficient PHP: Don't Abuse dirname( __FILE__ )

Posted on Thu 8 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

Every now and then I run across a chunk of PHP code at the top of a file that looks something like this: require dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/path/to/something.php’; require dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/path/to/another.php’; require dirname( __FILE__ ) . … Continue reading →

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The Easy Way To Get Recent Comments In WordPress

Posted on Tue 6 Apr 2010 by Joseph Scott

I see lots of tutorials about how to get the most recent comments in WordPress. Many of these involve custom database queries and sometimes a few other additional contortions. There’s no need for any of that, WordPress provides a simple … Continue reading →

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