Yearly Archives: 2012

Responsive vs. Design

As a developer, when I think of responsive design, I get a little (geekily) excited: I love coding, I love building, I love finding a way to make things work. Surely this is why I do what I do. However, … Continue reading

Germany: An Update

Any time you move somewhere new, there are signs to yourself that you’re “settling in”, things like: No longer needing the GPS every time you drive somewhere… Walking into the grocery store and knowing where to go to get the … Continue reading

WordPress Plugin: Add URL Slugs to <body> Class

Funny, I had built this some time back for my own personal use, thought it could be useful to others, planned on pushing it to the WordPress Repository, then apparently never got around to it… Anyhow, another quick and simple … Continue reading

WordPress Plugin: Add Custom Post Type Slugs to Admin <body> Class

2015-03-14 UPDATE: Slight update, available in the WordPress repo and on GitHub, check the README.txt for details. 2013-03-18 UPDATE: Now available on GitHub: https://github.com/aarontgrogg/wp-plugin-add-custom-post-type-slugs-to-admin-body-class 2012-02-25 UPDATE: Now available via the WordPress Repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-custom-post-type-slugs-to-admin-body-class/ If you work with a lot of … Continue reading

Responsive Design: Progressive Enhancement, Part Deux!

Okay, I know the term du jour is Responsive Design, but just think of it as progressive enhancement. The term (and philosophy) progressive enhancement replaced graceful degradation back in 2003, but back then it was mostly pertaining to CSS and … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

SpriteRight seems like a good technology, taking in either a batch of images from Finder (yeah, Mac-only, it seems) or importing images from an existing stylesheet (nice touch!), but I have always found these types of tools to do a … Continue reading

Why Can’t I Edit JavaScript Files in the WordPress Theme Editor?

Please note that as of WP 4.4, you can now enable editing of JS (or any other file format) via the WP Themes editor! The details are illustrated in the comments below. Thanks to Dmitri for pointing out the new … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A light afternoon allowed me to try to catch-up a little on some of my reading… A nice approach to presenting information, though somewhat overdone with all the car commercials doing this, but still an eye-catcher! And this is a … Continue reading

Best Online File Comparison Tool

Being formerly of the World of Windows, I was a major fan of WinMerge (read: Like Firebug/Inspector tools, I cannot imagine doing my job without it now!), so I’ve been seriously sucking wind since moving to the Land of Apple… … Continue reading