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Category: geek of technology

  • IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary

    In the end, Brown and his team were forced to remove the Urban Dictionary from Watson’s vocabulary, and additionally developed a smart filter to keep Watson from swearing in the future. via IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary. A more glorious misuse of technology could not have been conceived. Of course…

  • My first course on Pluralsight

    It’s happened. And it was much more work than I had originally anticipated. Much listening to (and cringing at) myself talk and trying to edit out all the “uh”s and “um”s (or as many as I could manage). Content wasn’t an issue, it was a matter of organizing the content into a structure and providing…

  • When I’m too smart for tech support…

    This isn’t the first time I’ve contacted web hosting tech support only to find out they couldn’t help me and managed to fix the problem myself. This time the support on the other end was HostGator. To their credit, the rep I talked to seemed to genuinely want to help. However, after 40 minutes it was…

  • WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal

    Matt talking to the Wall Street Journal on the success of WordPress as a platform. WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal « Lorelle on WordPress.

  • The first rule of functions…

    The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. Functions should not be 100 lines long. Functions should hardly ever be 20 lines long. What Constitutes Clean Code in WordPress? – @tommcfarlin (original quote from Clean Code by Bob Martin)

  • The agony and the ecstasy of Automattic’s Jetpack

    The agony and the ecstasy of Automattic’s Jetpack

    In a discussion on Twitter with the Internet’s @SiobhanPMcKeown (if you don’t know who Siobhan is, you don’t read many WordPress blogs) & @Krogsgard about WordPress themes with lots of options, I mentioned that I’ve been thinking about ways to justify removing options from Museum Core in favor of using plugins to accomplish those same things.  Case…

  • The about.me WordPress widget in the wild

    Well, it’s a good thing I prettied up my site recently.  Because I started using the About.me widget shortly after they launched it, I got featured on their blog. The about.me WordPress widget in the wild | About.me Blog.

  • Timed Screenshot Alfred Extension

    I was shocked — SHOCKED, I tell you!!! — to learn today that Skitch (the once-amazing screen-capture and image sharing app that is almost worth ditching Windows for Mac just to be able to use) no longer lets you do timed screenshots. What??? I was so upset, I had to do some digging and learned…

  • Search Engine Optimized breadcrumbs

    I had a need to build some search engine optimized breadcrumbs for a project I’m working on right now.  I didn’t want to just use Yoast’s breadcrumbs, because I’m using Twitter Bootstrap, and I wanted to make use of the built-in breadcrumbs support, so I did a Google, found something, tweaked it and am using…

  • Use Alfred to set up a WordPress theme based on _s and Twitter Bootstrap

    I said a long time ago that I would never use another theme framework now that I have Museum Core.  Well, unfortunately for me, WordCamp SLC — particularly the presentations of Jake Spurlock, George Ortiz and Patrick Cox, as well as working on the theme which was based on _s — changed my mind on…