The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming are very insightful, and worth revisiting from time to time.
New RSS Feed for WordCamp Announcements
WordCamp.org now has an RSS feed that announces when new WordCamps are scheduled.
Programmatically Sign-on a WordPress User
I came across a post on WP Recipes about programmatically logging users in, but it seemed like a flawed approach because it duplicated parts of Core’s internals rather than using the API. So, I can up with my own version:
FireFox Resizes When Switching Monitors
My normal setup is to plug my Macbook into two external monitors, and leave the clamshell itself closed. and then when I travel I disconnect it and just use the built-in monitor. Lately I’ve been running into a problem when I open up Firefox on the Macbook, after disconnecting from the external monitors. Everything is […]
Video from MVC presentation at WordCamp Columbus 2013
The video from my presentation on the Model-View-Controller pattern at WordCamp Columbus 2013 is now available on WordPress.tv.
Security Reward for new Google Authenticator Plugin
I just released a new plugin into the WordPress.org repository, and am fairly confident that it’s secure, but since it modifies some of the default login behavior, I’d love to get some extra eyeballs on the code. To that end, I’m offering a $150 Amazon.com gift certificate* to anyone who can find a significant vulnerability. By “significant”, […]
Grepping for Terms on Separate Lines but Near Each Other
I wanted a way to search through the ~200 themes we have on WordPress.com to find out which ones registered sidebar areas for the home page, and this is what I came up with: find . -print0 |xargs -0 grep 'register_sidebar' -s -A 2 |grep 'home\|front' |more That’d have to be customized to fit other […]