Whiteboards are easily one of the most useful utilities that any techie can have. They make it easy to write down flowcharts, create product mockups, and organize your ideas. I’ve been using one for about 5 years now, and it has served me well. (Ignore the cat5e cables) Unfortunately, it has become old and worn...

Hey all, Just wanted to let you know I updated the frame buster wp plugin. No major changes – just a fix to a critical bug that caused issues between www and non-www domains. I have also confirmed it to work on wp 3.3  You can download it here. Thanks!

If you are a mobile developer, you are all set. With iOS and Android taking on millions of more users per year you are good to go. But for PC devs – meaning a software developer for traditional computers – the story is much different. They will soon be irrelevant, and they will need to...

One awesome feature of WordPress is the ability to add in and use custom shortcodes in your posts to customize how your content looks. Shortcodes are bb-code style tags that you put right in your post, for example: [gallery] In this post I will give you a quick tutorial on how to create your own...

As you probably already know, web application security has been an increasingly hot topic over the past decade. From simple SQL injections to full-on website defacings, many websites, big or small, have been affected by lackluster security. If you use a prebuilt system such as WordPress the biggest thing you can do is update the...

Happy labor day everyone! Since apparently I can’t seem to go a day without doing work, I decided to put the finishing touches on a quick’n’dirty wordpress plugin I wrote for a few wordpress sites/blogs I maintain and release it. Nusuni Frame Buster is a simple plugin that will make your blog either break out...

One little annoyance with WordPress is the way it display post excerpts. Instead of doing the logical thing and doing a regular ellipsis at the end of the paragraph, it tries to get fancy with an ugly […] Fortunately for us it is really easy to switch: Open your theme’s functions.php file (create one if...

In my work I always find myself stupidly writing code that first tries to insert data, then tries updating it if the insert failed. Or better yet, doing a select to see if it exists, then doing an insert or an update. The sad part is, I know I’m not the only one doing it...

I finally got around to upgrading to Firefox 5 and wow, what an improvement. So far it seems like most of the memory leaks are gone (it is holding steady around 300-400 megs of ram vs 700 for Firefox 4), and it is definitely a bit snappier – when I load a cached page it...

Over the last couple of months I’ve been hard at work on several projects which require extensive use of Jquery, and by extension, Javascript. Despite some differences between browsers, for the most part javascript is one of the easiest platforms to develop for. It is quick( and getting quicker), it is available on virtually every...