Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)March 8th, 2011
Say what you will, but real programmers use the tools that help them the most. I’ve always been a big proponent of making sure developers are using a good IDE. For me, that IDE has been Zend Studio 5.5 for a long time. When I first started doing PHP development, I used nano. It got [...]
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Doug HaslamFebruary 8th, 2011
One of the things that frustrates me most about being in the social media bubble is the fact that we all (social media marketing, PR and other folks) seem to be each other’s audience; reading each other’s blogs, books, Tweets and newsletters and commenting on them in some great big circle of life (note: a [...]
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Chris ThilkJanuary 12th, 2011
There’s been some discussion lately about where to get ideas for blog posts from. Some people are charging for regular distribution of ideas they come up with, meaning those ideas are not only going to be as generic as they possibly can be (the better to be relevant to a broad base of people who, [...]
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Chris ThilkJanuary 5th, 2011
In a conversation the other day the decision was made to de-emphasize blog comments as part of a strategy we were putting together. For the program that was being tweaked comments simply weren’t an important metric or sign of that program’s success. The blog would still be open to any comments that came in and [...]
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Chris ThilkDecember 1st, 2010
The last few years have seen lots of talk about curation being something that more and more people are doing. We’re curating links on our blogs, we’re curating the best stories of the day on Twitter and Facebook and so on. Most of this talk seems to hinge on the notion that this sort of [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)November 30th, 2010
Since the addition of custom post types to WordPress in version 2.9, one of the questions I’ve seen most on message boards and forums has been from users trying to figure out how to have their custom post type have loop pages like the built in posts post type does. Initially, when the permalink handling [...]
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Ryan LackNovember 23rd, 2010
On the whole the social media industry is quite insular. Most of us attend the same conferences and talk to each other. We go to the same speaking sessions on the same topics. We tweet at one another and generally all say the same things. So what differentiates us from the next guy? I was [...]
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Hampton PaulkNovember 18th, 2010
Though there are several steps and a few workarounds that are needed, WordPress and Facebook do play nice together. What we are trying to accomplish here is to permit a client with a WordPress site to create a page using a pre-defined template that will display on their Facebook page. This will allow them to [...]
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Sean O'ShaughnessySeptember 22nd, 2010
In part III of this series, I’m going to cover a few more topics including Delta Indexing, Index Merging, and Distributed Indexes. If you used part I to get Sphinx up and running, and part II to get it integrated with WordPress, we’ll continue from there. Delta Indexing Using the sphinx.conf from part I, we’re [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)September 20th, 2010
Back while helping work on WordPress 3.0 and all the changes that were involved in adding better support for custom post types, I saw a need for improving the registration of meta-boxes. Specifically, making it so custom meta handlers could be supportable like the built in ones such as the editor, excerpt, and thumbnail meta-boxes. [...]
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