Every web developer should have a blog
I heard that once and can’t quite remember where, but I agree. There’s so much going on in the webdev world. Right now IE8 is in beta. People are arguing over whether HTML5 or XHTML2 is our future....
View ArticleMoving to WordPress / bbPress
After many months of planning and procrastination, I finally used Spring Break to move my site from plain php for content and SMF for the forum to WordPress with bbPress. As much effort as it took, I...
View ArticleChoosing bbPress / WordPress
My pet project has undergone many changes in the past several years. What started as a 20 pages of HTML on a free webhost in early 2005 has developed into over 150 pages of content with a news blog,...
View ArticleDamn Spammers
In the past few days, I’ve received about 25 emails from my blog to moderate spam comments–all obviously from the same idiot spambot. So I can understand now why the default option is set to send email...
View ArticlebbPress 1.0 is finally here!
Whoa! Two and a half months since my last blog, but bbPress 1.0 just came out recently and I updated the Chavez360 project with this and WordPress 2.8.1, and I finally have a site that integrates as...
View ArticlePlaying with WordPress plugins – Part I
Quite a while back, I wanted to make a quiz site with questions about PHP, and as I’m still into learning more about WordPress, the only logical thing to do is to develop a plugin that will make...
View ArticleHow do you design a favicon?
From all the classes I’ve taken in college, Mike Scott and Don Batory are two of my favorite professors. Aside of being well-prepared for lectures and such, the small details really do matter. The...
View ArticleCreating a Child Theme in WordPress
For at least a couple of years, I’ve been meaning to create a personalized theme for this WordPress blog and never got around to it until this weekend. Fortunately, it was even easier than I thought...
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