jazzsequence

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • CISPA is not dead.

      CISPA is back..

  • 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…

  • ‘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’ :…

  • On growing up and becoming jaded

    When you’re creative and in college (and possibly even earlier than that), you’re filled with enthusiasm, optimism and ideas. Ideas that you believe to be the most important things in the world. At a certain point, the optimism fades, the enthusiasm fades, and what’s left is bitterness. We’re told that this is called “growing up”…

  • This is why I read Chris Lema

    This is why I read Chris Lema

    If you asked me a year ago who Chris Lema was, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. My experience up to that point was a brief mention by my friend Josh at Event Espresso that his was a blog worth reading. Chris tweets a lot — one of my biggest turn-offs when I am…

  • Sites Not Spies

    May be time to permanently start using a VPN to browse the internet.

  • Holy Botnet, Batman! How do I change my admin username?

    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…

  • Developing for a greater cause

    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…