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Micro templates in PHP
June 8th, 2009 at 3:36pm | No CommentsHave you ever had the pleasure of reading PHP code with lines and lines of HTML jammed into strings and a ton of escape characters? I have. In fact, a lot of Wordpress plugins are guilty of this. Perhaps you’re guilty of it yourself? This article will show you how to separate your HTML markup from ... read more »
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Twitter Importer for Wordpress
February 5th, 2009 at 7:12pm | 21 CommentsIn an effort to regain control of my data, I’ve written an importer for Wordpress which grabs all your tweets and inserts them into Wordpress as posts. It allows you to choose the category and author you would like the imported posts assigned. I ran a few Google searches about exporting all your posts from Twitter, ... read more »
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Dumb Idea: Let’s write a new templating language
August 21st, 2008 at 10:30am | 6 CommentsAt work, we’re going to be redesigning a site that is running Textpattern. As I’ve never worked with Textpattern before, I’ve been brushing up. After about two minutes of reading, I find out that it has it’s own XHTML-style templating language. Textpattern immediately loses a lot of credibility. The article I was reading rationalizes the creation ... read more »
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Joining ActiveState in a couple of weeks
October 17th, 2005 at 3:58pm | 4 CommentsIt has been just over a month since I gladly accepted a permanent status offer from Best Buy Canada / Future Shop. Although, as mentioned previously, I didn’t feel I was being challenged and the position certainly wasn’t helping me grow as a professional. Late last week, I accepted an offer from ActiveState, a company ... read more »