August 2, 2010 | Web Design & Development, WordPress | 4 comments
Ran in to a fun one in the WordPress core today. If your plugin stores post meta and you store that post meta as an array then you’re prone to a bug in the WordPress core that can break your data should someone export their data and reimport it on another WordPress install. Yeah, this is a small minority of what actually goes on in WordPress but when you’re dealing with migrating data from one install to another, or are trying to supply complex sample data with a theme distribution, then things like this tend to get on your nerves. Quickly.
I’m gonna sound jaded through this writeup, but I’ll get over it.
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August 1, 2010 | Photography | No comments
The wife went off to run and naturally, I went off with my camera 
After all, why would I run? I wasn’t being chased.
July 26, 2010 | Photography | No comments
Kids: don’t try this at home. I’m a trained… well, buffoon, probably.
July 22, 2010 | Plugins, TextMate | 1 comment
I just updated the WordPress TexMate Bundle with some new features.
Cron/Scheduled Events
I’ve never really worked with the built in Cron in WordPress but have heard others talk about how much of a pain it is. After recently reading a Sitepoint.com article on scheduling events I was able to get the jist of it. The WordPress Bundle now includes snippets for complete actions such as registering single and recurring events. I figure I had better get the snippets in there while it was fresh in my mind.
Transients
A little less fresh in my mind were Transients. After watching a presentation on caching at WordCamp Boulder by the very likable (and, yes, smart) Sean O’Shaughnessy and Chris Scott from Voce Communications I got pretty stoked about these functions. Like the wp_cache… shortcuts there are now shortcuts to the transients functions. For more information about the wonderful world of transients check out WordPress Codex pages on the Transients API.
Scripts & Styles
Two new shortcuts for wp_register_script and wp_register_style were added. Though they’re a couple lesser used functions, I feel they’re a bit underused as well.
All done for now
So, while not a huge update it adds some obscure references that hopefully help some folks dive deeper in to developing for WordPress.
July 15, 2010 | Computers | No comments
Rejoice! There’s a way to set the tab with of the view-source window in Firefox. In March of this year Mozilla finally added an about:config option to control the tab-width in Firefox.
I’m on Firefox 3.6.6 and it works like so:
- Enter
about:config in the url bar.
- Filter the list (using the search box at the top) by typing
view_source.
- If you already have an option for
view_source.tab_width then simply change its integer value and you’re done.
- If you don’t have an option for
view_source.tab_width then continue.
- Right click in the window and select
New > Integer from the flyout menu.
- Name the field
view_source.tab_width and give a value appropriate to your needs, for me that was the common default of 4.
- Rejoice!
For more info there is a full list of about:config options at Mozillazine.
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