Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers

One thing that I has always bothered about WordPress widgets is the lack of ability to define custom widget CSS classes for each widget - it is kind of ugly using the stock widget IDs when you have four text widgets.

Two years ago I became a dad; and, with that I actually started checking into what blogs and techy stores suggest for Father's Day.

I finally got my first codepen.io account, and created some CSS Facebook Chat heads. You can check out the pen, and play around with it.

I migrate a lot of WordPress installs from a localhost to the beta server and then to production. It's easy enough to update the URLs in _options and guids in _posts, but the one thing that irritated the hell out of me was the rewrite rules.

MySQL command line allows you to manage your database environment through your terminal, or command prompt for Windows. Typically when you set up a web server you would have installed MySQL as its own service and can easily access the MySQL command line via mysql (mysql.exe).

This video was recorded from WordCamp 2009 in San Francisco back in 2009. Four years may have passed, but the basics of search engine optimization are still there. I think one of the problems we all face when dealing with SEO is becoming too calculated and analytical instead of trying to be natural - which Google tries to do.

Over the weekend a new module for Drupal Commerce came out - Commerce Point of Sale. This is an extremely exciting release and brings a whole new front for Drupal Commerce.

Sidebar content always gives me a little twinge when it comes to responsive design. Typically a left sidebar will end up stacking directly above the content and a right sidebar directly below. This can be fine, unless your left sidebar has 5 different content areas and now the user has to scroll two screen lengths just to read an article.

I like that WordPress has a built in permalink builder, however I wish it had a built in way of adding your own custom rules. You can, however, write a function to hook with the flush_rewrite_rules() built in WordPress.

Here is a quick roundup of some interesting links for just the beginning of the week: modern.ie is a site by Microsoft basically saying "Sorry we've been ruining your life, we're going to act like we know about web standards now."  In all honesty though,  I give Microsoft respect for at least attempting to clean up their previous embarrassments.