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After a few days of the comments trickling into my other blog on the post that I talked about recently, I am sure they are all coming from one person. How crazy is that to invent 20 different personas. The thing is, the comments are all the same. The more that come in, the more [...]

On one of my other blogs, I have received (so far) six comments on an old controversial post that doesn’t receive any comments anymore. It would appear that someone has sent a link to all their friends via email, because all the incoming paths are direct, often from internet mail URLs. I have a comment stalker [...]

Using object oriented code is a must for me. Object oriented code is more than just organization of the code, it’s organization of one’s thinking. I wanted to talk about using static class methods as handlers for WordPress actions. This is important to me because often my plugins are implemented as a class. add_action('init', 'MyPlugin::Init'); class MyPlugin { [...]

When I first started PHP programming, I wrote code like the PHP inventors wrote code, using lowercase characters and underlines, like: $my_favorite_variable = 5; function add_numbers($first_number, $second_number) { return $first_number + $second_number; } $answer = add_numbers($my_favorite_variable, 1); But this became tiresome. The thing is, the underscore character is harder to type and using all lowercase really makes the [...]

Oh Google. I love you in so many ways, and in some ways I’m just amazed you can even get out of bed and get yourself dressed in the morning. I’m a big fan of Google hosted email. You get that great Gmail experience, but with your own domain. It also incorporates Google Docs and Calendar [...]

"Using @font-face allows web designers a wide palette of font choices and with commercial font vendors supporting the WOFF font format, the set of font choices should improve even more. So the next step is clearly to try and make better use of features available in these fonts."

I currently have a client that’s basically an art company. They have great artists in the company, and it’s a bit intimidating. My artistic skills are definitely growing, but it’s such a soft skill compared the hard skill of programming that I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. I don’t feel the need to be [...]

Something new I’m learning to deal with is my blog stalker. She doesn’t read this blog, at least I hope she doesn’t. But I’ll take that risk this time because I just need to talk about it. She started off being a supportive commenter, I looked forward to hearing from her. Then it got a little [...]

“But with regard to Patch Matching, it’s a miracle. It’s the next miracle. From what I’ve seen in Adobe’s lab, it’s going to be outstanding. We are making it possible to correct things so well, like getting rid of telephone or power lines going through photos, and this solves a common problem that photographers face. It’s a cool, easy-to-use technology which Adobe is working on.”