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Tonight I wrote a quick (and idiotic) patch to the very simple WordPress Category Post plugin v2.0. This backwards-compatible patch features:

• parameter-based post limit to define how many posts the plugin ( Read more... )

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Ever since I was introduced to the Scrum methodology of software development, I’ve enjoyed my work so much more than before. Most of that enjoyment is due to a sense of visibility, of knowing what’s going on ( Read more... )

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In some communities, this is sort of old news, however I’ve recently become aware of an exciting and affordable security product called the YubiKey, manufactured by Yubico. The YubiKey is a $35 USD one-time ( Read more... )

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When you’re administering a web site, sometimes you need to make changes that for whatever reasons require that the web site be temporarily unavailable for normal visitors. One obvious example is database ( Read more... )

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Coming right on the heels of my need to set up a git repository on shared hosts, I next wanted to see if I could use HTTP authentication for such a repository. Of course, HTTP authentication is an extremely ( Read more... )

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I don’t believe I have ever before posted an entry that, for all intents and purposes, is just a link to another blog post. However, this blog post is simply so brilliant and yet so short and easily- ( Read more... )

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The Mac OS X Finder has some nifty features, one of which is an exceptionally useful contextual menu item to create ZIP archives of folders. Unfortunately, the Finder also has some really, really annoying ( Read more... )

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Security provisions are one of those “things” that Mac users have been snooty about-for good reason-for decades. However, I’d dare say that, even though the UNIX architecture of the underpinnings of Mac OS X ( Read more... )

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Last month, 37signals published a short but sweet post about why web designers should do the HTML/CSS implementations for their own designs. The bottom line is, as we’ve all been saying for a long time now, ( Read more... )

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In a lot of places in the world, many people still have to pay for bandwidth costs. I’m one of those people who just can’t afford to download lots of stuff during peak hours when my bandwidth might quickly ( Read more... )