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Custom Field Hacks For Wordpress

Posted Aug 18 2009 by Kyle Smith in Development with 0 Comments

Custom fields are a great little thing. They allow you to easily customize your blog with only a little bit of code. Below is a succinct explanation on how to do it, courtesy wprecipes.com

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Wordpress Popularity

Posted Jul 21 2009 by Kyle Smith in Development with 0 Comments

I recently read an article over on writerspace.net, entitled Wordpress.com Nearing Popularity Landmark The article speaks to a simple numbers game relative to wordpress’ popularity on the web. Fascinating enough, it is predicted that wordpress will top 10 million blogs by the end of the year.

As a developer, I would just like to add a few more reasons why wordpress is the dominating force in the blogosphere.

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jQuery Plugin: Cycle

Posted Jul 17 2009 by Kyle Smith in Development with 0 Comments

At this point, jQuery is nothing new in the web development world. AJAX has taken the community by storm, and I can’t stop shouting from the highest mountain tops, the benefits of an AJAX supported website. Asynchronous javascript is a foundation of web 2.0, and a big part of my development cycle.

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For Attribute Used With Label Tags

Posted Jul 3 2009 by Kyle Smith in Development with 0 Comments

There are times that I feel like I am on the cutting edge of development. Web 2.0 and AJAX trickery gives me that feeling all the time. Then there are times where I ask myself, “Why didn’t I know about this before?” That’s how I feel about the for attribute for the

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A Fight To The Finish

Posted Jun 3 2009 by Kyle Smith in Development with 0 Comments

I am currently employed full time as Lead Designer at a shop that is an exclusive vendor (or at least tries to be) of Microsoft products. “If Microsoft can produce it, we’ll buy it.” Personally, .NET is of little interest to me. I prefer to code inside of PHP. I can forsee that I will have certain biases for PHP, I admit that. But what is frustrating for me is all the hate from my co-workers.

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