Archive for December, 2009
Fixing Comment Count Bug in Disqus on WordPress
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
My final post for 2009 should probably have been more climactic. If I had planned it right, the Death in the Digital Age post should have been my last for this year. Oh well.
Final Fail of the Year
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Misc
This is just a quickie to let you know that I haven’t been receiving notifications from Disqus about new comments pending approval. This is my own fault for reasons I’ll explain, but I’m working on replying to them all now.
Death in the Digital Age
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools, Web Development
Because it’s New Years Eve, and I’m kind of a morbid asshole, I thought I’d harsh your alcohol-induced buzz with some grim reality by asking the question: What happens to your online content when die?
The Perfect Geek Cocktail
Posted on December 22, 2009 by snipe in Geek Life
With the holiday season upon us, I thought it might be fun to highlight two posts that were simply made for each other that can add some spark to your geeky holiday plans.
Twitter Retweet Contests: Viral Marketing or Social Media Spam?
Posted on December 22, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Those of us who eat, sleep (and occasionally — oh nevermind) on Twitter have noticed an increase in the Twitter “RT Contests” being promoted by companies in an effort to leverage folks who want free shwag to whore out their promotion.
Twitter Gets Down to Business
Posted on December 15, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
Twitter has taken the first steps of what will no doubt be a long journey towards providing more native support for businesses using their micro-blogging platform by introducing the new (beta) Contributors feature.
RSS SNAFU
Posted on December 14, 2009 by snipe in Misc
Hey, just a quick note to apologize if I’ve flooded your RSS feed reader with older posts that pretended to be new today. I was trying to set my feeds to show the entire story instead of the short excerpt they currently display in RSS readers, but ran into a bit of an issue.
Find the Perfect Web Icon Every Time
Posted on December 7, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Freebies, Graphics
As much as you may hate the phrase “Web 2.0″, you have to admit, websites and web applications look a helluva lot better now than they did just a few years ago. But what if you’re a better programmer than you are a designer?
Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit 2009
Posted on December 5, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I had the opportunity this week to go out to Redmond, Washington to attend the Microsoft Web Developer’s Summit at the MS headquarters. For this summit, about 25 leaders in the PHP (and PHP project) community were invited out to sit down with members of the MS product development teams and provide critical, honest feedback [...]
