Project 365

Doing something every day for 365 days. I don’t think it needs to be concurrent days, but it’s probably better that way.

  • One-up your web development skills for free with these online services

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    As a developer in an industry where trends and languages grow and evolve at pace, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the latest happenings. Thus, developers tend to specialise in certain languages or platforms which they watch. For example, while I keep tabs on developments within the PHP and WordPress communities, and…

  • Default post thumbnails in WordPress

    Default post thumbnails in WordPress

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    There is regular discussion within the WordPress user community on certain common encounters developers have when creating themes and plugins. One such discussion is around post thumbnails 1 and, more specifically, how to specify a default thumbnail. After reading a few discussions around this, I thought I’d share my take on things. There are a…

  • Writing and the lack of writing

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    Folks, I’d like to open this post with a question: do you ever find yourself typing too much? Too many words for what you’re trying to say/think/communicate? I do. A lot. Over the years, through all the blogging, coding, IM-ing and e-mailing, I find I can now type significantly faster than I can write. While…

  • Is DrawSomething a new approach to gathering Big Data?

    Is DrawSomething a new approach to gathering Big Data?

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    Data is fast becoming the hot commodity in today’s society. What do we know about our customers? How can we use our customer’s habits and trends to make our product better? While this concept is not uncommon in the non-digital world (printed surveys and small inserts in magazines aren’t uncommon), filling in surveys is fast…

  • Matty, Y U NO BLOG THIS WEEK?

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    Greetings, Wally watchers… long time no chat. You may have been popping in here this week and thinking, “why isn’t he blogging every day, after he said he’d aim to do a post a day for the whole year?”. I’ll explain why I’ve been quiet on here for the past few days. 🙂 Over the…

  • Filtering the Options API in WordPress

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    The Options API in WordPress is one of the many APIs we all use every day when developing with WordPress. A quick use of get_option() is not uncommon. What if you could filter those options? You can. Adding filters in WordPress is also a common practice. Combining this with the Options API can allow for,…