To make the most of having my own URL shortener with YOURLS and having it integrated with WordPress, I wanted to provide each article's short URL for others. My shortened URLs start with 404ts.com and they hopefully make sharing on Twitter, texting, or just remembering how to get back to an article much easier. Just providing the shortened URL could be helpful but are there … [Read more...]
When Is a Free WordPress Theme Not Free?
Every so often I'll stumble upon a collection of free WordPress themes and I'll go through the list because sometimes you can find some really cool ones or find ideas of how to improve the theme you're currently using. A while ago, I was going through just such a list and found a theme I liked, so I grabbed it and uploaded it to my server to hold onto it. The other day, I was … [Read more...]
First Beta of Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft released the first beta of the Visual Studio LightSwitch IDE earlier this week. It's designed to allow non-programmers create business applications and allow programmers of various levels to create applications quickly. It simplifies the process and allows doing many common functions like coding a database interaction to be done from a visual perspective. If you need … [Read more...]
Experiences with Three PHP Frameworks in Brief
I'm by no means a PHP developer but I do like to tinker around with it on the side for fun projects on my own and very rarely if something comes up at work. (A lot of my work involves filling in the gaps. Why just last week I was a Visual Basic 2008 programmer again.) Before embarking on my next project, I decided to check out some of the PHP frameworks I've heard about to look … [Read more...]
404 Page Not Found, but Kids Found
I randomly landed onto a page that presented a novel idea, making 404 Page Not Found errors more useful by showing information about missing children. Since I got distracted between opening the page and actually reading it, I had to sit for a while and think of how I got there or if it was a message from above. Once I divined that it was indeed a page that I had opened earlier, … [Read more...]