Category: Development

WordPress: How To Update Site URL And Home URL Using SQL

I do this often enough. You think it’d be committed to memory by now. Alas, my memory doesn’t need to be bothered with things like this. That’s what my blog is for. So here blog, remember this. I also, like

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jQuery: Click Anywhere But Some Element

Picture it. I have a clickable main navigation. This click expands a sub-menu. It’s all styled and looks great. However, if you click outside of an already expanded sub-menu, said sub-menu is still shown. So the problem is I need

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Launched: IHG Instagram Sweepstakes

Over the course of June and early July I spent five weeks helping the development team at Possible Seattle crank out an awesome Instagram driven sweepstakes site for IHG. I was responsible for the gallery section, which is driven mostly

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Launched: Get Your Shit Together

Good Evening. I am pleased to announce the launch of a new site for one of my clients. Get Your Shit Together is a site dedicated to helping people get their finances, wills, living wills and other life details in

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W3C Link Checker and Robots.txt Exclusion

I was ready. I had just finished updating the last few links (and some content) on my clients website and I was ready to check for broken links. I opened the trusty link checker over at W3C Schools and got

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WordPress JetPack Site Stats: Fully Ignore Logged-In Users

Recently, I noticed that WordPress JetPack Site Stats were reporting unusually high numbers on one of my blogs. I know it was likely that the extra counts came from me making many updates to the site. But why now? And

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Today I Had to Override Default Styling on an iOS HTML Input

On contract to help develop the new Visual Studio 2012 launch site, today I had to override the default styling on an iOS textbox. With both an iPhone and iPad in hand I discovered the following post on SO. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2918707/turn-off-iphone-safari-input-element-rounding

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Launched: Pella Professional

Good day. I’m excited to share with you that after many long Seattle winter months, we have finally launched the Pella Professional website. My post is a few days late as it went live last Thursday, Apr 26 2012, but

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jQuery Templates, Test for Undefined JSON Variable

I needed to test for an undefined JSON variable today. It’s pretty simple. I found the answer in the comments on the jQuery template {{if}} tag page: http://api.jquery.com/template-tag-if/

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Favorite terminal command in Lion

A favorite terminal command on Lion: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES And of course its opposite: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles NO Thanks to this guy for the tip.

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