While developing for Wordpress you sometimes need to create a “non-widgetized” custom sidebar. You would also like to have a list of your most recent posts in that custom sidebar. Unfortunately, Wordpress doesn’t have a “recent posts” template tag.
Here is a simple, easy to implement PHP file you can use to generate a [...]
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FF has already overtaken IE in many countries and many site’s stats show high Firefox usage…
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I’ve often wondered why there are no good tools for easily developing information architectures and producing wireframes.
Visio tends to be the standard, although I regularly use PowerPoint due to its ubiquity. Thanks to the PowerPoint Prototyping Toolkit you can produce quite good results.
The problem with Visio (other than its cost) is that it tends to [...]
The popular CAPTCHA solution can help lock out robots and reduce spam, but it’s far from failsafe — and it causes major accessibility headaches. In this article, James looks at the problems, issues, and alternatives to requiring a human to prove that they’re not a bot.
An elegy to the makeready — those sheets of paper, re-fed into a press to get the ink balances up to speed, leaving a series of often random, palimpsest-like, multiple impressions on a single surface — in the digital age.
Sometimes inspiration strikes when you don’t even expect it. While at the @media conference, I was discussing the benefits of Adobe AIR and when it might be advantageous to use it. Certainly not every site or web application requires a desktop component. Sites that have a level of stickiness — sites that you never close the window for…like Muxtape.
*bing* goes the light bulb.
Why not make an AIR application for Muxtape? So here it is. This is a really basic prototype that simply allows you to type in a name of a muxtape and it’ll load it in an iframe. The name of a muxtape is the part before the muxtape.com domain. For example, with http://notasausage.muxtape.com/, you’d just type notasausage and then click load.
Don’t click on the links in the header as they’ll load in the main window. (This is a really rough prototype!)
Feel free to take the idea and build something truly cool — like grab the RSS feed and build a custom player.
And why Snape? It’s Snook’s Muxtape, of course!
Spaces was one of the new features in Leopard I was most excited about, but I found the actual implementation unusable. Henry Story wrote a fine description of the problems with Spaces in 10.5.0. When I linked to his critique, I wrote:
I’ve tried to love Spaces but can’t, because I want to divide
spaces into tasks, [...]
