Category Archives: web development

Bootstrap, a CSS Framework from Twitter

By sam | Published: January 19, 2012

I ran across the Bootstrap, from Twitter today. What beautiful-looking code! This could be a great place to start with for a new WP theme or for any other site I’m working on. [via: wpMail.me and wpCandy]

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By sam | Published: January 11, 2012

State of the web: of apps, devices, and breakpoints by Jeffrey Zeldman  

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Installing PHP on OS X for web development

By sam | Published: October 17, 2011

There are a number of ways to install PHP as a part of apache on OS X. For a while I used MAMP and a couple of scripts to start and stop the processes and point htdocs to the current directory. Then I ran into a problem with MAMP’s PHP not supporting connections to MS [...]

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Back Issues of the Oshkaabewis Native Journal

By sam | Published: March 23, 2011

In my work at Bemidji State University, I recently helped Anton Treuer publish the Back Issues of the Oshkaabewis Native Journal of which he’s the editor. Although published somewhat sporadically, the Journal has been in existence since 1990. It’s the oldest and (currently) only academic Ojibwe language journal. The Journal includes many Ojibwe stories with [...]

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WordPress network on Dreamhost

By sam | Published: March 12, 2011

WordPress, as of version 3.0, allows you to set up more than one site within the same installation. Each site uses the same core software and users can use the same credentials in all the sites they have access to across the network. Essentially, it allows you to set up a mini WordPress.com. Since I [...]

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How to find a cover image for a book with an ISBN

By sam | Published: November 23, 2010

Searching yielded the following options. OpenLibrary’s Cover API ISBNdb.com Amazon Product Advertising API Google Book API It took me a while to find OpenLibrary’s Cover API, but it’s by far the best for my purposes. The following are my reasons for not choosing the others. ISBNdb.com doesn’t actually provide the cover image. They have a [...]

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Presentation: WordPress Off Road

By sam | Published: November 13, 2010

Here are the slides from my presentation at WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul, 2010. I talked about a PHP class I wrote called wp_posts, how to update options across multiple WordPress sites in a WordPress multisite installation, and how to get LDAP authentication for multisite WordPress up and rolling. WordPress Off Road – Slides

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First Steps with Google App Engine

By sam | Published: November 10, 2010

I’ve been researching about Google App Engine recently. Google App Engine provides free web app hosting in the cloud. You can host either Python or Java apps. Once the app is in the the system you have an allotment of free usage and pay (it seems pretty reasonable) when you go over that. I’ve found [...]

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Speaking at WordCamp MSP, 2010

By sam | Published: November 6, 2010

I’m going to be speaking at WordCamp Minneapolis 2010 on November 13. My presentation is titled WordPress Off Road. I’m going to talk about integrating WordPress with a multi-faceted (non-WordPress) website. I will be introducing a PHP class called wp_posts for exporting WordPress posts, scripts I’ve developed for maintaining multi-site WordPresses and experiences setting up [...]

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Extending HTML5 input types with regular expressions

By sam | Published: August 29, 2010

I was reading Jeremy Keith’s, HTML5 for Web Designers which I’ve written about before. This quote is from the section on new <input> tag types, end of chapter 4: The good news is that you can use the pattern attribute to specify exactly what kind of value is expected. The bad news is that you [...]

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