I like writing WordPress plugins and I like using git to version-control them. Problem is that wordpress.org uses svn. Even worse, I like to use git submodules, so git-svn is no help. What to do? Write a shell script, of course.
As web developers, one thing that we don’t have to worry about is concurrency. We don’t have threads, we don’t care about multiple cores etc. I came across a fascinating talk from the creator of the Clojure language [...]
La scurt timp după lansarea versiunii 3.1 de WordPress, am rămas plăcut surprins de articolul Anei Matei în care îmi mulțumea pentru contribuția pe care am avut-o la această versiune. I-au urmat apoi exemplul Tudor Bezea, Cristian Oprea și Manuel Cheța. Lor, inclusiv celor care au lăsat comentarii la articolele respective, nu pot să le [...]
This extra bit of free will choice, which did not exist before the tool was invented, is itself good, even if the tool causes harm. Having the choice itself is a positive good. That extra positive good tilts the 50/50 balance slightly in favor of the good, but only by a little tiny bit. But [...]
I just saw on twitter a time lapsed video of the author Scott Berkun writing 1000 words: While watching it, I was amazed at how much it resembles the way I program. In spite of the resemblance, I tend to think writing is harder, because there’s no computer to tell you if what you wrote [...]
In some cases, you need to prevent users from opening links to external sites in the same window.
And what’s the easiest way to do that? jQuery, of course! Here’s my take on it:
So I’ve been accepted as a GSoC student for WordPress. My project involves working on the core WordPress code, but on a separate svn repository. I needed an easy way to keep my branch synchronized with trunk.
Unfortunately, svn doesn’t have the concept of rebasing, so I wrote a little bash script to simulate it.
I use Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Because I needed Visual Studio for college, I also installed Windows 7 on the same hard-drive.
To be able to access files on the Linux partition, I installed a little program called Ext2Fsd. Unfortunately, it wasn’t updated to work with Ext4 partitions…
One of the things I hate about flash-based players is that you can’t control them properly through CSS. For example, if you write this CSS code: object {width: 100%; height: auto} … the videos won’t scale properly (the height will stay fixed). So I came up with this little jQuery script that makes a video [...]
Avant Window Navigator is a dock-like window and launcher manager for Linux. The newest version (0.4) is available for testing.
Why is it awesome? Because it allows me to combine the two boring Gnome panels into one slick OS X / Windows 7 like dock.
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