From time to time I find myself using the JSON API plugin for WordPress – it works good, and is handy for providing connectivity with mobile apps. Â Just form a query, snag the data, sort out what you need, and done. Â Nice. Except – one of the projects I’ve got involves a LOT of data. …
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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!
This is just a placeholder for the upcoming announcements section for iPhone / iPad / Android apps!
MAME comes to the iOS App Store – Donkey Kong on my iPad, here I come! How long with it last?
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.
Mobile Flash and Silverlight are dead – and Flash for the desktop isn’t far behind.
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 project – the one that has a nebulous timeline that is based on when customers …
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. Â It’s a hands-on training for creating new posts, new pages, editing menus, and the other core features of WordPress. Â It’s not the worlds most in-depth training, …
Almost without fail I add caching to all the sites I deal with for customers (and myself) at the end of the project. Â And for the longest time the procedure was always the same thing: Â add WP-SuperCache, enable it, and do just a slight bit of tweaking to get it all nice and streamlined. WP-SuperCache …
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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. Â Honestly, at the time I was a little stumped by that – there’s a couple of plugins …
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