Almost There

The Mindbody schedule widget is pretty much there. Here. And here. Next step is to develop administrative elements for wordpress. Styling Admin Date Display Format Translations Coming soon. Thanks for your patience. Remember that SOAP needs to be enabled on your server for this to work. UPDATE: The beta version is posted on GitHub.

Robin Nixon’s Computer Programming Books

After many many years of web development in PHP it finally became time to really learn the language. The essence of computer programming has always come down to the IF/THEN statement. All we’re doing is manipulating data and the various languages – C+, perl, java, php, javascript, ruby, etc. – have methods for storing and … Continued

tutorial on using the awesome Magnific Pop-up within wordpress

Check out my man AJ Troxell’s terrific tutorial and adding the Magnific Pop (a responsive/modal image gallery based of jquery) to a wordpress installation. There’s also the ZenMagnific plugin I helped develop for the Zen Cart shopping cart framework, which we’re using with the Renaissance Man, Inc site. Now using it, combine with some WP … Continued

Capistrano & Command Line Poetry Class

Eager to step the local web development up a level with regular use of Command-line Version Control Repository, Dependency Management and Deployment automation. When we are using an Apple or PC operating system like OSX or windows, we are using a graphic interface (also known as a graphical user interface or GUI) to interact with … Continued

Linus Torvalds

The world wide web was created by a physicist who wanted to have an easier way for geographically spread out thinkers to collaborate. Git was created by this cat Linus Torvalds, who is a few months younger than me, and who created Linux, which is probably the worlds leading open source server software. Here is … Continued

Adventures in osX Environment

Working with a book from ever dependable O’Reilly Publishing on PHP, MySQL, JavaScript. Installed Aptana Studio which is an Intergated Development Environment that works w/ php, HTML, css, javascript that runs on Snow Leopard OS 10.6. Had to install Git in order to have access to Boilerplate HTML 5 – Git grants you access to … Continued

Best Cpanel / phpMyAdmin / MySQL method for WP Create Admin

Here’s the awesomeness: INSERT INTO `wp_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`, `user_nicename`, `user_email`, `user_status`) VALUES (‘newadmin’, MD5(‘pass123’), ‘firstname lastname’, ’email@example.com’, ‘0’); INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`umeta_id`, `user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (NULL, (Select max(id) FROM wp_users), ‘wp_capabilities’, ‘a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;}’); INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`umeta_id`, `user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (NULL, (Select max(id) FROM wp_users), ‘wp_user_level’, ’10’); And it’s source. After just creating a … Continued

Editing Hosts File in Mountain Lion

When doing website development for a domain that is not yet pointed to the Linux/Apache server you are developing on, you can often point to the directory with a URL consisting of the IP address followed by a tilde, which is this squiggly thing ~ and then the FTP user name like: 205.251.100.100/~theuser But if … Continued

Adding Simple Captcha SPAM trap to Zen Cart contact form

Zen Cart 1.5.1 comes with a CSS-driven anti-spam trap which adds a non-displayed field to the contact form, which robots would fill out, but not humans. After a while it seemed to not be enough so I initially added a Google reCaptcha module, but it was really annoying to use, so am trying this simple … Continued