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WordPress Tag Cloud with Post Counts

DM — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:42:38 +0000

One of the things that has annoyed me about WordPress for a long time is the inability to display a post count next to each tag in a tag cloud. Here's the code I came up with to accomplish this.

How to Use Tweet Entities

DM — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:25:32 +0000

On my sites, I'm using the URL entities to display long URLs in a shorter, more visually appealing way; hashtag entities to make hashtags clickable links; user_mention entities to make usernames clickable links; and media entities to display any linked photos right on the page...

HTML5 History API

DM — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:04:39 +0000

When re-designing my music site, I wanted to make sure that visitors could bookmark and share the original URL of the page without any appended #hashes. This was perfect for HTML5's History API.

Math – Left to Right

DM — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:47:37 +0000

Mathematics is so much faster, and easier, when you do it left to right.

Date and Time Types in MySQL

DM — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:54:24 +0000

...for this post, I'm going to get into the various date and time types in MySQL and I'll discuss when and why to use each one...

Javier's Treet

DM — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:00:46 +0000

Here's a video that Michelle took of Javier eating leaves in the front yard.

Blue is Better Than Green

DM — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:34:32 +0000

I recently updated the design of my blog and the most noticeable difference is that I changed the ...

HTML5 Threaded Comments

DM — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:36:34 +0000

...the one thing I wasn't able to find was a proper implementation of HTML5 comments, especially when it comes to threaded comments. All the more reason to create my own...

DM Rating Stars – WordPress Plugin

DM — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:55:17 +0000

For quite some time, I've been using my own custom plugin on my WordPress blog – one of the features my plugin adds is the ability to add rating stars to posts, and now, I've decided to make it available for download.

The 3 Dogs Trailer

DM — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:44:48 +0000

This is my first blog post since the new HTML5 changes went live on my blog. Here's a video trailer that Michelle and I created in iMovie '11 back in November...