Monthly Archives: May 2012

WordPress, Custom Taxonomy, and “An unidentified error has occurred”

Posted on May 20th, 2012 by Ryan

Working on a plugin today, part of which includes a custom taxonomy, and came across a snag today. Got the taxonomy added, along with the custom post type it was associated with. The meta box showed up just like it … Continue reading →

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Why so few female engineers?

Posted on May 20th, 2012 by Ryan
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Weekly Tweets for 2012-05-19

Posted on May 19th, 2012 by Ryan

RT @olgachaidou RT @CoolSWEng: An advantage of being forgetful is that you’re forced to document your code. #

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Regex to replace multiple spaces

Posted on May 16th, 2012 by Ryan

Normally I just don’t worry about this since I’m usually building websites and HTML takes care of merging multiple spaces. But it comes up occasionally. And since it’s just a quick regex replace, it’s pretty quick to merge multiple spaces. Piece … Continue reading →

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Hiding the “Welcome to your new WordPress site” message

Posted on May 13th, 2012 by Ryan

Sitting here working on setting up a WordPress network and hit a snag. New sites have a giant “Welcome to your new WordPress site” message when someone logs in for the first time. Now, I’m not against the message; and … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2012-05-12

Posted on May 12th, 2012 by Ryan

Comment form in @WordPress, above or below existing comments? http://t.co/FjfNkbwT # Quick and easy way to refresh a jQuery datatables table http://t.co/rdg0sdhI #

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Should add new comment be above existing comments

Posted on May 12th, 2012 by Ryan

Had a thought while scrolling to the bottom of a WordPress post with 250+ comments. Does having the add new comment form at the bottom of a page that long lead to fewer comments? Really, who is going to scroll … Continue reading →

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Datatables jQuery plugin – Refresh table

Posted on May 7th, 2012 by Ryan

Sometimes I try and make things way too hard. One of the things that a web app I’m working on needs is the ability to do an advanced search. It’s using the outstanding DataTables plugin for jQuery which takes care … Continue reading →

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Double click on file in Chrome developer tools

Posted on May 5th, 2012 by Ryan

How did I not know this already? I’m working on a web app that’s pretty Ajax heavy so I’ve got the Chrome developer tools window opened up to the Network tab so I can see what’s going on. By accident … Continue reading →

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Math for Game Programmers

Posted on May 2nd, 2012 by Ryan

Had an idea running through my head for a while now and finally pulled the trigger last weekend. Something I’ve noticed teaching students to write games is that most don’t expect programming games to involve as much math as it … Continue reading →

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