Trouble Symlinking DocumentRoot on Shared Hosting

I ran into some trouble setting up Deployer on Media Temple's Grid service, and it took me awhile to find out the answer, so I figured I'd share it here.

If WordPress Uploads Fail on a Dreamhost Shared Plan

TL;DR: DreamHost kills processes on their shared hosting plans if they run too long, which can screw up all kinds of things in non-obvious ways. To fix it, either disable lots of plugins, or upgrade to a better hosting plan. I spent too much time this week trying to track down this issue for a […]

Generating Dynamic Placeholders for $wpdb->prepare()

$wpdb->prepare() is often called with each un-sanitized value explicitly passed as an individual argument; for example: $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT id FROM wp_posts WHERE id > %d AND `post_status` = %s", $min_id, $status ) The function will also accept an array of un-sanitized values, though, like this: $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT id FROM wp_posts WHERE id > %d AND […]

Building keyboard shortcuts into web applications

Scott Hanselman’s post on adding hotkeys to web applications is good food-for-thought if you have any power users, or just want a better experience when using the applications you develop.