Monthly Archives: May 2012

Unexpected Results When Adding Months To a Date

When adding or subtracting months to a date in PHP, you’ll get some uninuitive results in some cases. For example, strtotime( ‘+1 month’ ) will return the timestamp for July 1st when it’s executed on May 31st, instead of the expected June 30th. This is because a “month” is a fuzzy metric (i.e., some months […]

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WordPress Bug Causes Error in XML-RPC Clients

I’ve been having a hard time figuring out an error that a client’s been getting in the Android and iOS apps for WordPress, but finally found the reason. The problem was that, when adding new posts with images, the post would be saved and the image would be uploaded and attached to the post, but […]

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Creating Admin Notices From a WordPress Plugin

I just threw a couple small PHP classes up on GitHub that I use in almost every WordPress plugin I write. The first is IDAdminNotices, which is a clean and easy way for plugins and themes to send messages/errors to the user within the Administration Panels. The second is IDDescribeVar, which will outputs the type, length and contents of […]

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Virtual Workspaces for Windows

I’ve been using Linux since high school — which is longer ago than I care to admit ;) — and one of my favorite features of *nix window managers has always been the concept of workspaces, but for some reason it never occurred to me until today to search for a Windows tool that would create them. […]

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Why Short URLs are Evil and You Should Never Use Them

Ok, so maybe that title was a bit of a hyperbole, but this is one of my biggest pet peeves on the Web right now. Joshua Schachter has a comprehensive analysis of the concept of Short URLs and the myriad problems associated with it, but the biggest one for me is the fact that the […]

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