WordPress Caching: Clear An Individual WordPress Post Cache

I’ve become a bit obsessed with caching lately. Speed is an addiction I suppose. So I found another new trick today. If your writing a plugin or theme and have some front in functionality adding and updating posts, sometimes you want to make sure a cached object is cleared before the page is refreshed. But [...]

HTML5 rocks, now I just have to start using it

I had no idea HTML5 could do stuff like this. I guess I need to get on the ball man.  

Flash Fail

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Google just add one more reason for most web developers to avoid using Flash. Instant preview.

Vector Graphics for Free!

Seriously, this maybe my new favorite website … at least until they stop giving away free vector graphics.

WordPress Theme Frameworks: Who needs ‘em!

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The buzz word in WordPress circles these days is “framework”. What the hell does that mean? Isn’t WordPress a framework? The official definition offered in the WordPress Codex is “a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes.” But this doesn’t quite give [...]

Site Plug: ReadyMadeWeb.com

For those of you on a budget (me me me me), www.readymadeweb.com is a great resource for web tips about easy-to-use, out-of-the-box, ready-made web-ware. Is there a record for the number of hyphens used in a single clause? For instance, here’s a great post explaining why you might want to use a mass follow program [...]

Usability Tips

Smashing Magazine has a great list of usability tips for web designers. Usability is one of those things that is often overlooked by small business and non-profits because they don’t have the resources they perceive necessary to engage in usability testing. But really, there is loads of information out there about usability that small organizations [...]

Safari 4. Me likey

I’m using Safari 4 for the first time today … and I love it. I had grown tired of firefox, but still relied heavily on their FireBug web developer tool. Safari now has a similar tool built into the browser. Sweet. They have also taken the quick start page from Opera and added some style [...]

IPod Touch Blogging

This is my fort post from my ipod touch! It’s not a hard as I thought it would be … except that I have big thumbs.

New sites going live

I’m very happy to report two new projects going online. One is www.eightin08.com, another adaptation of Justin Tadlock’s Options theme. The other is www.friendsoffairness.com, which is, come to think of it, another adaptation of Justin Tadlock’s theme. Jeez, I wonder if there’s a message here!