May 22, 2009 – 7:54 am
As someone who is not formally trained as a programmer, I often understand concepts long before actually putting them into practice. Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) seems simple enough. Of course I don’t want to repeat myself while programming. Who wants to dig through lines of code to find a litte snippet of logic you once [...]
March 22, 2009 – 9:30 am
Every now and then I want to view my help files in pretty, formatted HTML instead of plain text in a text editor or terminal window. Right now I’m working on setting up some Access Control Lists (ACL) in the CakePHP Console. ACL is a powerful, yet sometimes hard-to-grasp concept. I always figure that if [...]
December 16, 2008 – 12:09 pm
I recently spent an entire weekend trying to troubleshoot why Internet Explorer 6 kept wrapping the rightmost DIV in my design to the bottom of the page when no other browser did. In my case, I was using the Blueprint CSS framework that creates twenty-four 30 pixel columns, each with a 10 pixel right margin [...]
December 10, 2008 – 5:52 pm
At my day job, I’m working on an application to keep track of specimens for our lab. A specimen is sent to the lab, then divided into aliquots which are put into boxes and stored in freezers. The previous sentence ought to give you some idea of the architecture of the database, which in turn [...]
November 26, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Updated 12/3/2008
The other day I wrote about getting the Blueprint CSS framework into your Wordpress theme. If you’re developing in CakePHP, it’s even easier to link multiple style sheets and JavaScript libraries to your layout file.
<?php
$css = array(’blueprint/screen’, ‘blueprint/ie’, ’style’);
$jslibraries = array(’prototype’, ’scriptaculous’, ‘jquery’);
echo $html->css(’blueprint/print’, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”print”‘);
echo $html->css($css, ’stylesheet’, ‘media=”screen, projection”’);
echo $javascript->link($jslibraries);
?>
Let’s take these one [...]
November 25, 2008 – 9:38 pm
I recently found a great article about upgrading Wordpress from the command line. If you’re familiar with a command line interface at all, it’s by far the simplest way to upgrade your Wordpress install.
You can apply the same method to upgrading your Wordpress plugins.
Log in to your web server and cd to the Wordpress plugins [...]
November 23, 2008 – 9:07 am
If you’re familiar with the Blueprint CSS framework, you already know it can make your life a lot easier. So how do you get it into your Wordpress theme? Luckily, Wordpress is designed to make your life easier too.
I’m assuming your know the basics of Wordpress Theme Development. That is, at the very least you [...]
November 22, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Just like the README file for Blueprint CSS, I wanted to refer to the TUTORIAL file in a more readable format. Here it is formatted for easy reading.
Blueprint CSS Framework Tutorial
Welcome to this tutorial on Blueprint. It will give you a thorough intro to what you can do with the framework, and a few notes [...]
November 22, 2008 – 2:45 pm
Author’s note: This is word for word post of the Blueprint CSS file only because I’m tired of pulling up the text file and I’d rather read it in a nicely formatted HTML page. I’m sure others would prefer that too.
Blueprint CSS Framework Readme
Welcome to Blueprint! This is a CSS framework designed to cut down [...]
September 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm
I have been so incredibly busy the last few months that aside for 140 character Twitter updates, I haven’t been able to keep this blog updated with my exploits.
If you are still paying attention, I was complaining about ACL. After several attempts, I gave up using the built-in ACL component in CakePHP and just decided [...]
