Author Archives: Ryan

Weekly Tweets for 2012-01-07

Posted on January 7th, 2012 by Ryan

RT @medialab: A fourth “r” for 21st century literacy http://t.co/nhNrNuhb @scratchteam # RT @wallingf: "Can you trust a teacher whose only connection to a subject is teaching it?" http://t.co/GBfhJmqF # Where's Waldo, solving with computer science http://t.co/3tZfyCNa #

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-12-31

Posted on December 31st, 2011 by Ryan

RT @MindShiftKQED: On the eve before 2012, 21 things that will be obsolete in 2020. http://t.co/Fd3h6Cyy #

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-12-24

Posted on December 24th, 2011 by Ryan

RT @DesignerDepot: Layered screenshots on your Mac: Yes, it's possible! http://t.co/DOb7xenc # @alfredtwo Easier than ignoring Twitter :) # RT @davidwalshblog: Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking http://t.co/9TnCbhKq #

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Taunting a frog with an iPhone

Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Ryan
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Quick Fix for OpenX Redirect Loop

Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Ryan

Last week I installed OpenX on my server to use for an upcoming project. After getting it installed and setup admin-side, I went and made sure the zones looked right on the project site. Chrome gave me an error that … Continue reading →

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WordPress recent posts as JSON

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

For an update to one of my web projects I went looking for a way to get the recent posts as JSON instead of using the RSS feed. I personally find JSON much easier to deal with than RSS, so … Continue reading →

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days_ago function for PHP

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

Can’t take credit for all of this, but I also don’t remember where the code that I started with came from. days_ago is a function that will take two dates and return a more human friendly version of dates. So … Continue reading →

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PHP function to get first n words from a string

Posted on December 17th, 2011 by Ryan

A handy little function for your bag of tricks. This PHP function will return a max number of words out of a string, or the whole string if it’s already shorter. This probably could be made shorter, but I was … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-12-10

Posted on December 10th, 2011 by Ryan

Took one of my sites from a load time of 6.5+ seconds to 1.31s – stripped a social plugin, minifying, and CSS sprites http://t.co/AxYb5ha2 #

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fsockopen / fgets very slow in PHP

Posted on December 4th, 2011 by Ryan

I’ve been using a PHP class in a project that pulls a URL and then caches the result so it doesn’t have to get loaded again until it’s considered stale. Works pretty well, but every time it went out to … Continue reading →

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