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Books that helped me become a professional web developer 18 Jun 2013 | 11:38 am
I've been working full-time as a web developer since 2009, previously creating my first website with Microsoft's Frontpage in 2002 (remember that?!). Apart from a taking a few modules on an Open Univ...
Using __autoload() in your Object Orientated Wordpress plugin 14 Mar 2013 | 12:02 pm
These days autoloading PHP classes is the industry standard and if you write your plugins using Object Oriented code then you should look to using it too. I've just re-factored my Affiliate Hoover pl...
A quick way to add a URL redirect feature to Wordpress categories 5 Mar 2013 | 05:09 pm
My last job at a large multi-national company before my contract expired was to code their Russian website. A major problem that their Russian team faced was not having the resources to translate ever...
A PHP class to create a Wordpress custom post type with dynamic metaboxes 19 Feb 2013 | 10:58 am
On a theme I have been working on there was the need to create dynamic metaboxes for a basic jobs listing section. The listing page had four different fields for every job: Title, description, locatio...
Creating a reusable JavaScript form validation class 11 Feb 2013 | 12:07 am
Just recently I was looking at some of my old code. For a website build I had used HTML5 form validation with a JavaScript fallback. The form itself was a long one and I had created a module that save...
Be careful when buying electronic goods from Amazon Associates 10 Feb 2013 | 08:26 pm
Although I use a Mac at home, I also use Windows and Linux. For the latter I use an old CRT monitor. It weighs more than an elephant, but the colours and font-rendering is excellent. When LSD screens ...
Using CSS3 animation with the JavaScript CSSOM API 10 Feb 2013 | 01:38 pm
One day IE7 and IE8 will die out and be a distant memory just like Netscape 4. JavaScript libraries like jQuery won't disappear but they'll be a lot less essential when all browsers conform to W3C sta...
Creating breadcrumbs for Wordpress without an addon. 5 Feb 2013 | 07:47 pm
If you are creating a Wordpress website and you know PHP then it is good practice to avoid third-party plugins wherever possible. There is only minimal peer review of plugins on the Wordpress reposito...
Is using @import in CSS really such a performance roadblock? 3 Feb 2013 | 10:10 pm
Just recently I found myself returning to an old style sheet that I had coded last year. It was vanilla CSS written without the help of a pre-processor. Locating and rewriting the CSS involved far to...
Coders! Don't forget your CSS print styles! 29 Jan 2013 | 11:52 pm
I rarely read long articles on the desktop instead preferring to print them out. I don't know if there are statistics out there, but I would imagine that this is a common practice. Thankfully there i...
