I’m not a big believer in karma, but this week I experienced some karma-like effects. Two years ago for work, I developed code to protect wiki websites. Then I published it on my blog.
This weekend a software upgrade caused this protection code to stop working on our websites. I couldn’t find an answer. Then yesterday, [...]
This will be the most technical of my posts in the Amtrak series, but it’s not just for computer geeks so stay with me. Here we go.
Ruby on Rails is a “web application framework”, a way for programmers to make web applications more easily and more quickly (and more enjoyably, as its creators would be [...]
Five months ago I created a WordPress plugin to implement a marketing principle taught by Seth Godin. He said good marketers “treat returning visitors differently than newbies”. The plugin has been one of the most popular features on my blog.
Today I upgraded the plugin to version 1.3, adding a feature that allows the welcome message [...]
If you’re a marketer or a WordPress user, you might like the WordPress plugin I recently created. Based on a principle taught by Seth Godin, it lets you treat new visitors to your site different from returning visitors:
“What Would Seth Godin Do” WordPress plugin
I enjoy developing in PHP 5, for its improved object oriented design and XML support. PHP 6 is slated to have additional useful improvements like built-in Unicode, built-in caching, and increased security out of the box (no register_globals, magic_quotes, or safe_mode).
Here are other improvements I’d like to see in a future version of PHP:
while-else [...]
