Jan
19
Davis’s Daily Devotional Released!
Remember those old Joke-A-Day desk calendars? Well, Davis’s Daily is bringing it back and modernizing it for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, along with other platforms in the future!
Author Archives: Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr.
Jan
16
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This is just a placeholder for the upcoming announcements section for iPhone / iPad / Android apps!
Dec
21
MAME for the iPhone and iPad? This probably won’t last, but…
MAME comes to the iOS App Store – Donkey Kong on my iPad, here I come! How long with it last? Continue reading
Nov
16
Plot Over Time for WordPress
Uses the Google Chart Tools API for charting data entered in WordPress posts using MetaTags. Tracks up to 10 different data points, supports Area Chart, Line Chart, Pie Chart, Bar Chart, and Column Chart styles, any custom style options you’d like to include, and number of other options. Be sure to read the webpage for full notes and updates. Based on Tom Fotherby’s Fotherplot, however shares very little code with the original, and instead of requiring changes to a page or template, it uses shortcode to add graphs to a page or post. Continue reading
Nov
09
Flash is on life support…
Mobile Flash and Silverlight are dead – and Flash for the desktop isn’t far behind. Continue reading
Oct
27
The McAlister’s Project Index
Projects are sometimes done on dated time-lines: for instance, in month 1 (x) should be done, in month 2 (y) should be done, and in month 3 you’re supposed to have released the project. Then there’s that other sort of … Continue reading
Aug
24
WordPress Training Starting September 8th, 2011
Part of every website project I do is a training component – usually two hours, give or take a little based on how quickly the customer picks it up. It’s a hands-on training for creating new posts, new pages, editing … Continue reading
Aug
11
Improving WordPress Performance With W3 Total Cache & Cloud Flare
Almost without fail I add caching to all the sites I deal with for customers (and myself) at the end of the project. And for the longest time the procedure was always the same thing: add WP-SuperCache, enable it, and … Continue reading
May
04
Quick Captions, Callouts, and Customer Quotes in WordPress
While teaching WordPress classes at Pixel Time last night, someone asked me how to easily throw customer quotes on the right side of the page – not in the sidebar, but as part of the article it’s self. Honestly, at … Continue reading
May
04
Wichita Professional Communicators presentation
I had an interesting opportunity come my way – the chance to speak to the Wichita Professional Communicators gathering at Larkspur in Wichita, Kansas. Now, I’ll admit – giving me a chance to speak in front of people always gets … Continue reading