While working on my first commercial WordPress plugin, the need for build automation finally struck me. The environments in which I do my most development are all driven by Linux, and so I wanted to use a tried, true, and ubiquitous build …
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WordPress plugin minify Makefile
Tags:Add password maintenance feature to cgit with PHP
Tags:Have you ever wanted to have a nifty, browser-driven password maintenance feature in your htpasswd-secured cgit site? I've been meaning to build this for a while—and I finally did it.
Using cURL for parallel PHP without pcntl_fork
Tags:So, you want to do some parallel processing in PHP (alliteration FTW!), but your service provider does not grant you access to the pcntl family of functions*. What do you do? If you're in a *nix environment with access to the curl command …
Selective backup/copy script for moving files into production
Tags:Whenever our web site needs to undergo re-branding, there is always the hassle of creating both the selective package of files to move into production from development and the selective back-up of the necessary files already on the …
Create anchor links in Twitter status text with PHP
Tags:In a previous blog post, I outlined how to convert Twitter @mentions, #hashtags, and URLs (with or without protocol prefixes) into anchor links using JavaScript. Here is that same process wrapped up in a PHP function instead for your …
What's My Status? v1.0.0 released
Tags:My first officially-recognized WordPress widget, What's My Status?, has been released! It is a widget for displaying a given user's status feed from identi.ca, Twitter, or any other service that provides a Twitter-like API. There are …
Help! I can't delete phpMyAdmin's setup.php
Tags:I've got a VPS server running Debian 5 "lenny" and recently attempted to perform several software upgrades to bring it up to speed (it had been longer than I care to admit). However, the upgrade for the phpMyAdmin package …