Working for a major Social Media company I couldn’t agree more with this post, it’ s worth a read if you aren’t aware of what’s going on. Seems unlikely, but if  SOPA were to be set in motion, the internet would end as we know it… http://www.phparch.com/2012/01/and-now-a-word-on-sopa/

I’m a bit late in posting this, but 3.3 has improved media uploads features and other nice UI goodies and better help in the admin as well as Tumblr support. Check it out. I’m updating the site now! http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

PHPReboot is a rewrite of PHP with Native support for XML, SQL like syntax, XQuery, less syntax and lots of other things to make it faster and remove the clutter. Yes it makes it less like PHP, but it’s also better IMHO. Question is, will developers buy into it? We shall see. Sounds great in Read the Rest…

I had a dropdown menu on another site that was above a carousel, but when selecting it, it would go behind the carousel. This is a problem I’ve encountered with z-index before and I thought I’d post the solution here. I basically used the agile carousel (js) on my homepage and the built-in wordpress dropdown Read the Rest…

A co-worker turned me on to this fine replacement for Sphinx. Instead of indexing everything it indexes ad-hoc. It’s RESTful, built on Lucene, and uses JSON and CURL to grab search results. Sounds shiny! And I can’t wait to test it out! www.elasticsearch.org

Looks like they have a good article on the scoped attribute: html5doctor.com

This is really slick and beats the crap out of jQuery UI. Check out the examples and get crack-a-lackin’! http://www.kendoui.com/

This has a number of functions that could come in handy. Might have to give it a try: brianhaveri.github.com/Underscore.php/

I love this link, because I rarely need to do this, thus I forget it every time I need it. Every once in a while I need to copy a directory from one site or repos to another and before I can commit it, I need to remove all the svn directories recursively throughout the Read the Rest…

I needed to remove all html tags and punctuation from a wordpress post title to pass into a bing search module today and this little regex bit along with strip_tags() did the job: $title = preg_replace(‘/[^a-zA-Z0-9-\s]/’, ”, strip_tags(get_the_title())); Wheeee!