Category: geek of technology
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Private Internet Access, because the Internet is dirty
I was going to title this post “Private Internet Access: It’s like a condom for the internet” but the resulting image was a bit too graphic even for me. I must be getting old. A few months ago, I started using BTGuard. It’s a proxy server that can be used for BitTorrent to route your…
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Time lapse photography with a Canon Powershot G2 on Linux
This is something that’s sort of been bugging me for a while. Not that I really want to do a lot of time lapse photography, per se, but that I want to be able to tell my camera to take a bunch of pictures, say one every 15 seconds for a certain amount of time…
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New Pluralsight course: Introduction to WordPress
My second course for Pluralsight goes live today. If you don’t already know, Pluralsight offers developer training videos and my first course, Introduction to WordPress Theme Development, was published in January. This course — Introduction to WordPress is a more general overview of WordPress and WordPress settings. I tried to pack it full with every…
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Progress Bar 1.1
A new version of my progress bar plugin is available. You can download it or follow the link to find out what’s new. I’ve added full documentation on the Progress Bar plugin microsite with examples of all the new shortcode parameters and options. Progress Bar 1.1 | Progress Bar.
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Every Noise at Once
My wife found this. Given my wide musical tastes, a genre map that you can get lost in is right up my alley… Every Noise at Once.
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CISPA is not dead.
CISPA is back..
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Skematik
So, Matt Jones — founder of Storefront Themes — presented at the last WPSLC meetup. Mostly he was talking about ecommerce stuff — which is the topic he was scheduled to present on — but he also talked about a few other projects he’s been working on, including Skematik. At WordCamp SLC in September, he…
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‘The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web’
This week is the 20th anniversary of the open internet — the day the researchers at CERN renounced the patent on the world wide web. Had they not done that, this post would likely have been brought to you by Associated Press. ‘The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web’ :…
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Holy Botnet, Batman! How do I change my admin username?
You may have heard about the massive security threat toward Joomla and WordPress sites. (If not WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???) There are lots of posts around the web on the subject, but not a lot of answers to “well, how do I change my username from admin?” This post answers that question. Answer 1: You don’t…
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Developing for a greater cause
So, for a number of years, I’ve had a sort of rule: “don’t do work for free.” There are a number of caveats to this. Doing stuff for myself or my own projects would technically be working for free, but maybe I’m doing it to figure out how to do a new thing in WordPress or development…