Archive for 'blogging'

Austin

Last weekend I went to Austin to visit Cristen, snapped some photos, had a few margaritas, launched a website, ate bbq, went hiking (and got lost), saw a UT football game, and ate and drank at an awesome brewpub. Did I mention the Legos?

Today I Learned: PHP handlers & .htaccess

At work, we have an email thread that goes around daily, called “Today I learned.” It is how it sounds – we share things we’ve learned as we build functionality for sites, mostly using Drupal or WordPress. It’s pretty rare for a day to go by without a today I learned email. I enjoy theRead More…

Blogging, Day Three

I’m already getting a little frustrated with the “blog every day” thing I brought upon myself, but in an effort to overcome my own laziness, here I am. I’m taking the easy road, though, and instead of blogging something worthwhile or possibly even interesting, I’m going to tell you about my shoulder. About a yearRead More…

Pimping out WordPress Admin

First, let me assure you that this entire blog will not revolve around WordPress, but for now, that’s how it seems to be going. On Saturday I wrote about the admin menu I found for WordPress called Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu. When I emailed the tech team at work, I got a response fromRead More…

Customizing ShareThis WordPress plugin

I realized that having the ShareThis links at the end of my blog posts might actually prevent them from being shared as much, assuming that most people won’t read the posts in their entirety (sad, but probably true). So, I decided to add the ShareThis links in the left sidebar where it lists the dateRead More…

FeedWordPress and Admin Menu

You may have noticed that I redesigned this blog just recently (or, you didn’t because it’s been about a year since I last blogged). In redesigning and restructuring, I came across two WordPress plugins that have been very helpful. For one, I needed a page that would display posts from my EchoDitto blog and EchoDittoRead More…

Testing with Photography

I’m back (again). And I’ve recently become interested in photography, so I’m going to test the layout of this theme with some big photos. Have fun lookin’!