It’s never too late to learn about child themes in WordPress, and in this video from WordCamp San Diego, John walks us through the very basics of child theming, overriding templates, overriding vs. pluggable functions and of course theme frameworks.
Diet Pills, SEO, and Theme Frameworks by Andy Stratton
Andy Stratton gave a presentation called “Diet Pills, SEO, and Theme Frameworks” at WordCamp Chicago 2011. He talked about WordPress themes, frameworks, marketplaces and a lot of related misconceptions, and some of the many problems with commercial themes including SEO, customization, child themes. Here’s a quote if you haven’t got time to watch the whole video. There are...
The Evolution of Search
Quite inspiring: The Evolution of Search by Google.
Advanced Topics in WordPress Development
Andrew Nacin and Otto Wood gave a great talk at WordCamp Montreal a couple of weeks ago on Advanced Topics in WordPress Development. They cover some of the cool stuff available in the WordPress like taxonomy and meta queries, the filesystem API, transients and embeds. Great to learn from the pros ;)
Macros in WordPress, Thoughts & Experiments
Hey there, been a while eh? I’ll write a little bit more about what’s happening here in a few days, but this weekend I’ve been watching the WordCamp San Francisco 2011 conference, and with all the brilliant sessions I got inspired, so this morning I crafted this: Thinking if this is at all usable. I’m thinking yes since I’ve been using TextMate for a little longer...
Meet Chromebook: Not Even a Desktop Background
You all know I’m a big fan of Google’s promotional videos, and here’s a really really nice one about their new Google Chromebook. Definitely one of the best promo video’s I’ve seen so far, and even better then Nexus One ;) I’m not a big fan of Chrome OS but I do use Chromium for work and play, and I really love the idea of having no software. Salesforce...
WordPress Experiments: Colors & The Color Wheel
I’ve been working on a free theme called Minimal Georgia lately and based on it, I’m now running a few experiments for theme customization, of course inspired by Squarespace. One of my first experiments is the color wheel and there are plenty of jQuery plugins and code snippets that could do that. With a few more research about colors and their hex codes, I found a way to determine a...
Video: Google Developer Day Moscow 2010
Hurray, the video’s out! Damn I love when Google posts videos about their events, they’re always so exciting! Didn’t find myself anywhere in the shots, but I did find some of my friends. Not to keep you waiting any longer: Never knew barcode readers are able to parse data from an iPhone screen, that was amazing. For those of you who missed out my short review of the event:...
Lady Java Music Video by Jenny Skavlan
Came across this Java video last night, it’s hilarious ;)
E-Commerce: Google Checkout Store Gadget
Remember those great offers from web design and development agencies? E-commerce website from $999! Well I believe their time is gone, and once more, Google is taking the lead. Google Checkout has been introduced quite some time ago, but here’s what there’ up to these days – Google Checkout Store Gadget. And this looks really fabulous! You can create your own online store in...