Woo! Wordpress 2.8.

Wordpress 2.8 is out! If you haven’t already you should go download it now. As of this post Wordpress 2.8 has been downloaded 1,522,482 times, that’s pretty amazing. I’m actually blown away every time I install a new version of Wordpress. It seems like they iron out a few more rough spots each release and the whole experience just gets that much better. As far as open source...

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Fugue – The Best Icon Set on the Web

Fugue – The Best Icon Set on the Web

Having the right icon set can make or break a web development project. Confusing icons will frustrate users and drive them away from your application. There is no excuse for using ugly icons or even no icons at all on your web application. Fugue For my last few projects I’ve been happily using an icon set called Fugue. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, the Fugue...

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Essential Tools for the Beginning Web Developer

I’ve been doing some Javascript tutoring this term and I realized that there are a few indispensable utilities that any budding web developer should know about. Text Editor The first thing you need is a good text editor. You can code anything in Microsoft’s Notepad or Apple’s Text Editor, but you won’t have any fun, that’s for sure. A good text editor is like a Swiss...

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PHP Session Data Lost Between [Some] Pages

Ugh… So I’ve been working on a website for a student group at the University of Oregon. I’m developing a custom content management system for the site that uses jQuery UI and AJAX. It’s pretty spiffy actually. Unfortunately I’ve always had problems maintaining $_SESSION data on the University web-server. For some reason my authentication class would work fine on my...

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