Here is the CSS I’m using for my WordPress blog to improve the way Gists look. UPDATE 4/2016 – There used to be a major post here with a Gist, but I recently discovered GitHub improved their CSS making my … Continue reading
Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well. Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading
Recently implemented a Captcha field on a signup page. So, to start with I looked around for a good plugin to handle this. ReCaptcha was the first one that popped up. ReCaptcha does support themeing, which is nice since the … Continue reading
No matter what versioning system you are using (Git, Mercurial, Subversion, TFS, CVS), a useful commit message is just as valuable as adhering to coding style and leaving behind useful comments. Why care about commit messages? If you ever need … Continue reading
The following MySQL query is useful for getting a count of all the domain names used by email addresses in your database. It isolates the domain name (after the @ sign) in the email field. SELECT substring_index(email, ‘@’, -1), COUNT(*) … Continue reading
A HEAD requests check to see if the resource exists, and what kind of data it might provide. The key to a HEAD requests is the response contains no data, headers only. I’ve been noticing HEAD requests resolving as 404 … Continue reading
Sublime Text 2 is my new best friend as an editor. It is fast, it anticipates my needs, and it doesn’t get in my way. So far, every nit I have encountered with it has an easy fix. For example, … Continue reading
As of the current AWS API, setting the Expires and Cache Control headers for all objects in an AWS S3 bucket requires a script. It is possible to do it one file at a time through the AWS control panel, … Continue reading
Naming conventions in coding are important for maintainability and quality. Without a standard to follow, each developer (and sometimes each file) will take on a standard of its own (or be just a random mash of whatever). Deciding on a … Continue reading
New blog theme was launched tonight! The theme name is Brunelleschi, by Kit MacAllister. He’s also from Portland. Here’s what I love about the theme – it uses Responsive Design. For a demonstration of what Responsive Design is, try re-sizing … Continue reading
