Monthly Archives: May 2009

WordPress Plugin Pet Peeve #1: Hardcoding wp-content

Perhaps my biggest pet peeves I run across with WordPress plugins is when developers hardcode the URL or path to the WordPress content folder. By default this folder is named ‘wp-content’, and resides at the root of the primary WordPress folder. However, since WordPress 2.6 (released July 2008), this location [can be moved][] [...]

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Deciphering Twitter @replies

So I’ve been as confused as anyone as to what the current Twitter reply system is actually doing, so I decided to try a quick experiment. Just like email replies (which I recently ranted about), there are two ways to designate a reply in Twitter. Akin to the subject of an email, you [...]

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Bigger and Better Things

I’m not sure what it is with us… you’d think we would have learned our lesson the first time. Almost exactly a year ago, Elisabeth and I did something I would never recommend to anyone. We made three major life changes in the course of a month or so — we got married, [...]

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