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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Chris ThilkSeptember 15th, 2010
Twitter made a pretty big announcement yesterday evening. No, it wasn’t the expected additional features such as an analytics package, a suite of business-friendly features or anything else that would have been super-cool for corporate users. Instead what was revealed was a redesigned user interface that, quite frankly, looks a lot like an app that [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)July 13th, 2010
Once theSphinx server is setup, we can begin with WordPress integration. The first thing we need to do capture the override the query_vars in WP_Query before it runs it’s own search. We’ll do this by running an action on ‘parse_query’ with the code below. function my_parse_query(&$wp_query) { if($wp_query->is_search && class_exists(’SphinxClient’)) { $results [...]
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Sean O'ShaughnessyJuly 12th, 2010
Sphinx is a powerful open source SQL full-text search engine. It runs as a single process in the background, and can be connected to over a specified IP and port. It supports weighted ranking of search results, different search matching modes (all words in the query, any words in the query, exact phrase), and filtering [...]
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Chris ThilkMay 25th, 2010
In all likelihood any organization of any size is going to have existing guidelines concerning not only employee behavior but also how the organization and those within it are going to respond to certain situations. Whether it’s an employee issue, something regarding a customer accident or even a weather emergency, there are procedures to follow [...]
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Chris ThilkMay 18th, 2010
Once the goals of a content publishing program have been established and buy-in received from all key stakeholders, the time comes to decide what platform or platforms the program winds up living on. In my first post I steadfastly avoided pigeonholing what was being discussed by avoiding identifying it as being a corporate blog program. [...]
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Chris ThilkMay 4th, 2010
One of the things we pride ourselves on at Voce is our ability to work with clients to find and flesh out the stories they have to tell. Everything else is based on that, from the platforms those stories live on to the distribution strategy is based on those initial story ideas. While future posts [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)February 29th, 2008
I was extremely excited about GridViews and DataGrids when I first started working with .NET. The thought of having controls with built in paging and sorting just blew me away. Needless to say, this excitement was short lived. By the end of my first project in .NET, I found that this built in sorting and [...]
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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)August 16th, 2007
Since I’ve started web development, I’ve come across many ways to handle data access and business logic. Some of these have been good, many were bad, and some had potential but not for that particular project. I’ve decided I would bring up some of the better designs I’ve come across and discuss the benefits and [...]
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Amelie is an Associate Client Executive and coordinates and implements daily social media and traditional PR activities for a number of clients.
