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WordPress, by default, only lets you search “posts”. If you want to search both blogposts and static content, then this plugin is what you need. I’m very surprised this isn’t an option out of the box.
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Nice tutorial on creating options pages for your WordPress plugins.
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“…a user interface design conceived by someone without detailed understanding of the tools used to construct it often suggests good, but expensive to implement designs. There’s a sweet-spot between good, and expensive to build…”
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Lots of simple, well-written recipes for a wide range of staple dishes. Definitely one for me to come back to – need to broaden the household recipe list, methinks…
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“Seems like a simple question, doesn’t it? What’s your goal? Amazingly, many of the photographers I talk to–both amateur and pro–don’t really know the answer to that question.” Good stuff here from Thom Hogan.
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“Organizer is a Wordrpress plugin. This plugin help the wordpress users to manage the files uploaded to their blog.” Nice and simple, nicely done.
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An even better explanation of SQL joins via Venn Diagrams. Already saved some bacon today, I can tell you.
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“…even if it costs me a contract in the short-term, I will refuse to implement any kind of interface that involves asking the user for a password from a third-party site. I urge you to do the same.” Jeremy is right. No question about it.
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“In a new dairy on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire, they’re producing a raw-milk “Stilton” that they’re calling Stichelton, the name of the village where Stilton originated.” I’ve got to get me some of that.(tags: cheese)
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35mm pinhole camera, made out of lego. Delightful.
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Really comprehensive WordPress plugin for handling not just contact forms, but data-tracking forms of any kind. Customisable, reasonably nice output, and a good database admin that lets you spit out CSV. Recommended.
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“Anything worth writing is worth re-writing. This applies to code as well as prose.”
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“This marriage of Classic Russian Literature and the Caped Crusader of Gotham also serves as further proof, if any were needed, that everything is better with Batman.”
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“…what they’re actually saying to editors, picture professionals, and photo buyers is, ‘I photograph the same crap everybody else does, in a style indistinguishable from a thousand other guys.'”(tags: photography)
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“When designers and programmers work with the same materials, they speak the same language. That’s an incredibly helpful way to work together”… and hugely dependent on the people. At best, I try to achieve this with the people I’ve worked with.
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“The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech Model Railroad Club of M.I.T. and all rights to use and define these words are strictly reserved.” From 1959.
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This plugin saves you time when moving between your browser and Textmate. It adds clickable links to the Rails backtrace when an error occurs, and clickable ‽footnotes‽ to the bottom of each page… [which] open the correct file in Textmate.
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“Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”
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When they say “rules”, they mean “of thumb”, but they’re still handy yardsticks to have.
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“when ever you have a new team member you have a new team”. Ross Mayfield is pretty accurate, in my experience, of the issues with distributed working.
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“In an effort to understand usability in the OSS world, I’ve researched the stories behind my favorite — and least favorite — OSS programs.”
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“Adventures in particpatory, interactive, rock’n’roll storytelling.” Guy’s talk in fulltext format. Nicely done, Guy.
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An animation painted on a many walls, and interacting with the space around it. Hypnotic, grotesque, beautiful.
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“Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them.” This could be interesting!
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Having worked on AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) a while back, I thought aspect-orientated programming (AOP) would be good topic […]. I’m not going to go into too much depth but hopefully it’ll highlight some of the possible uses of AOP.
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“The Language Switcher WordPress plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress.” Feels a little fudgy to me, but it definitely works.
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“You need to mentally prepare yourself before starting a review by reminding yourself of the purpose of the review and the need for a critical, questioning attitude.” Nice article on how to make code reviews effective.
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Long, detailed, useful reference guide to all the areas that you can tighten the security of your Ralis application.
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Visualisation of logfile access – “if you can tail it, you can visualise it” – in Ruby and openGL.
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Lovely, gravity-bending flash game.
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“All three—the internet telephone firm, the video site and the social network—make almost no money. EBay’s disappointment with Skype is a timely reminder of where this fad might lead.” The Economist on EBay’s Skype “issue”…
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Communication is inescapable, irreversible, complicated, and contextual. Nice summation of many of the issues around communicating with other people. Reminds me how little I’m going to miss transatlantic teleconferencing.
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“All it takes is a single call to Rake and you’re backed up on Amazon’s redundant, secure systems.”
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The 2007 IF competiton games, all ready for download.
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“In discussion, we decided there is too much logic in the controller. We want to move the authorization into the correct place in our domain model. But where?”
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“Fitts’s Law is Made of Lines” is a rough summary of this, but in short – a neat graphical explanation of Fitt’s Law, with some useful notes, too.
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“If you can’t tell how long a piece of code would take when you have the finished product available, what chance do you think you have before the first line of code is written?” If only I could show this article to so many of my old directors.
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“If you approach design not as embedding your story in the environment, but as creating an environment wherein users can create their own stories, then I’d say you’re on the right track.” Kars on playful IA again.
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Pimping Autotest for fun and profit. And Growl notification. Nice!