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Understanding the Favicon
Jonathan Neal has a pretty complete guide to implementing a favicon in your site. You may think know it already, but it’s changed a lot over the years, and it’s surprisingly hard to find a reliable cross-browser solution.
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Markable.in: A remarkable online markdown editor
Markable.in is an online markdown editor which sports some pretty sweet features.
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Use GistBox app to manage your code snippets
GistBox is a beautifully designed interface to GitHub Gists for managing your code snippets
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Installing Sass with Compass on Windows
Getting Ruby with Sass and Compass running on a Windows machine. It’s easier than you think!
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How to check if a shortcode has been registered in WordPress
How to programmatically check if a shortcode has already been registered in WordPress or not
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Code Snippets 1.7 released along with new plugin
Code Snippets 1.7 is now available. This release greatly improves the plugin API, allowing you to write your own plugins that extend the base Code Snippets plugin’s functionality. To demonstrate these new capabilities, I’ve released the first addon plugin for Code Snippets, which brings a much-requested feature to the plugin. Code Snippets Tags will allow you […]
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Explain xkcd bookmarklet
Quickly go to the explanation for an xkcd comic with this handy link in your bookmark bar
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What WordPress shortcodes should be used for
I know that many developers cringe on the mention of shortcodes, especially ones included in a theme. Shortcodes are being abused to the extreme, replacing the good old HTML code with a supposedly “user-friendly” syntax. And then, if the plugin or theme that handles the shortcodes is uninstalled, you get ugly shortcode tags floating around […]
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Don’t Panic! Google celebrates Douglas Adams’ 61st Birthday
Today the home page of the world’s biggest search engine is adorned with an interactive Google Doodle dedicated to Douglas Adam and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I personally love this trilogy of five books, and I was overjoyed to find this tribute to towels, babblefish, Vogons, and the number 42. Go and check it out!
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Twenty Thirteen
Twenty Thirteen will be the next WordPress default theme. It is scheduled to be bundled with WordPress 3.6. As you can see, the design is quite unique, unlike the previous default themes which have aimed to be more of a blank canvas (especially Twenty Twelve). It’s kind of strange seeing a new default theme just after the […]