That point where the bus is stopped in traffic and…
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View ArticleBad Stats and spam email from the Republican Party of Florida
Spam is annoying, but bad statistics bother me more. Never having lived in Florida, nor been registered as a Republican, I was surprised to receive an email from Chris Martin of the Republican Party of...
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Infant Altitude Record
My wife doesn’t exactly see it like this: Flying. Props @killagroove The post Infant Altitude Record appeared first on Always searching.
View ArticleOne year later
Code I wrote a year ago was just committed to he core for WordPress 3.5. Feels good to give back. In [22347]: When receiving a HEAD request, die() right before we start outputting content. Content...
View ArticleSocks in the Dryer
Over the past several weeks recent guests at our house have seen emails, calls, or chats from me. All over a t-shirt, a razor, and a towel. Those few left behind items have me fascinated right now....
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Testing the Tests in WordPress
The recent release of WordPress 3.5 was delayed twice over bugs that weren’t found/reported until the last-minute. To help prevent some of the manual testing scramble that happens before releases I’ve...
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It’s An End of the Internet Night
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View ArticleUnless You Care
Watched ‘The Lorax’ movie with our kids tonight and one of the most impacting things I’ve heard in a long time was the Dr. Seuss quote at the end: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,...
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Please upgrade your website: state.or.us
This is actually live on all forms on www.state.or.us: Please upgrade your browser to something from 2002. The post Please upgrade your website: state.or.us appeared first on Always searching.
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Status
Multitasking, cooking and setting up a memcache cluster. More mentally taxing than I would have expected. Not where you would think though, odds are I’ll get distracted and burn the veggies and the...
View ArticleContent Strategy presentation, Recap posted
Just posted extensive notes from Jim Woolfrey’s presentation on ‘The Fundamentals of Content Strategy’ from the Feb 25th Portland WordPress Users Meetup. No slides from Jim yet, but I hope he’s able to...
View ArticleRegex your Regex much?
Thanks to Richard at Digital Trends for this regex formatting trick. Their condensed, one-line formatting can make longer regular expressions a chore to debug once you’ve forgotten them or the original...
View ArticleESI Includes as Partial Page Caching for WordPress
Zack Tollman’s well-research post on partial page caching in WordPress is the 2nd or 3rd time I’ve heard him mention ESI as a good model for WordPress caching. I’m in full support of that architecture...
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Problem Solving is Not Limited to One Domain
Problem solving is problem solving. Whether the domain is development, design, or product it takes focus and practice, not the shiniest new tools. The post Problem Solving is Not Limited to One Domain...
View Articlegit Sparse Checkouts, Finally
The entire WordPress project runs from SVN repositories: core, themes, plugins, & unit tests. The one feature I’ve missed in git has been SVN’s flexibility in regards to shallow checkouts. Turns...
View ArticleStatus #portlandiaisadocumentary
Currently stopped for suburban chickens to cross the road. Portland is awesome. #portlandiaisadocumentary The post Status #portlandiaisadocumentary appeared first on — Mike Bijon.
View ArticleOne of “those CSS things,” the Entity Conversion Calculator
Those time when you need to postfix every link, everywhere on a site it’s always with a special character that CSS doesn’t render by default. And every time I have to go searching for *this* thing. The...
View Articlegit cherry-pick and usability
Overheard in the dev bullpen, “Wait the command is actually called cherry-pick?!” Sure enough. And Linus (or whoever) added it to git was smart enough to make it hard to forget. Why is that so...
View ArticleFreelancing – You Have Less Time than You Might Think
Some of the best advice I ever received for freelancing pointed out how few billable hours I really had available. Sam Mullen, a freelance open source developer, has a post on the frontpage of Hacker...
View ArticleCurrent Status, git log –grep=
git log –grep=”something I built 3-months ago that’s getting tests” The post Current Status, git log –grep= appeared first on — Mike Bijon.
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