Julien Desrosiers Freelance Web Developer in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. Thu, 23 May 2013 19:40:22 http://www.juliendesrosiers.com WordPress plugins for complex websites Here is my list of the most useful plugins that I’ve found to rely on when creating complex websites with WordPress.

Custom content

With the ACF plugin, I can declare custom post types in my functions.php and with this plugin attach very cool …

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Today I found this very useful picture that describes the WordPress Database tables relationships.

Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description

]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/hB5M4UfW0Ls/the-wordpress-database-diagram http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2012/11/08/the-wordpress-database-diagram Automatically prefix Custom Post Type slugs with the Author name These days i’ve been working on a WordPress-powered job listing site. And one thing I needed to do is to prepend the author name (user_nicename) at the beginning of the “job_listing” post slugs.

Here’s how I did it:

<?php // usage: …]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/EUmNAsEaO-A/automatically-prefix-custom-post-type-slugs-author-name http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2012/10/27/automatically-prefix-custom-post-type-slugs-author-name My best practices for local WordPress development

Here is my workflow and tools I use when working on a WordPress site locally.

[XWML]AMPP?

For WordPress development, you'll need Apache, MySQL and of course PHP.

If you're on a Mac, you can get XAMPP or MAMP, which will let you install …

]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/UY8ZUapUJMQ/best-practices-local-wordpress-development http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2012/05/30/best-practices-local-wordpress-development How to: test web applications with the Android SDK on Mac OSX Lion

So you're on a Mac, and you need to test your cool website on Android, except you don't have any Android-powered device? Read on.

(The following have been tested on Mac OSX Snow Leopard and Lion)

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If you develop WordPress sites, chances are that you know a lot of functions, and how to use them. But there are quite a lot of them, and if you don't know them all, you might end up re-inventing the wheel for some of the sites you create. …

]]> Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/_sr3R8H1Kxk/the-daily-wordpress-reference-newsletter http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2012/03/10/the-daily-wordpress-reference-newsletter Build an Automator script to upload images to your server

The problem

I always need to send people screenshots. For this, i used to use LittleSnapper to publish the screenshots on my server (at http://s.juliendesrosiers.ca/*) for other people to see them.

It worked great, but for the sake of learning …

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The renowned cellist Yegor Dyachkov came to us asking for a CMS for his new website. So we created a simple, Sinatra-based (programmed in Ruby), CMS that makes it possible for him to manage all of his site’s content.

The excellent graphic …

]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/_pWHZTJ6Ugo/yegordyachkov-com http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2011/09/18/yegordyachkov-com Run Gollum on Pow Ever wanted your own Github-style wiki on your own mac server? Read on…

Gollum is the Git-powered wiki that is used in the Github’s wiki system. This tutorial will show you how to run it on Pow’s zero-configuration server on your mac.

Step …

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/bkBFUeTNmvc/run-gollum-on-pow http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2011/07/20/run-gollum-on-pow JulienMP3Player: an MP3 Player jQuery plugin (Yes, in JavaScript!) These days i’m creating a website for a musician. And he needed an MP3 player for his website. So my first thought was to use an open source MP3 in flash . But since i need to extend it, i looked at the AS2 code and i thought about the possibility …

]]> Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/I0wuhvPfDFM/julienmp3player http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2011/04/02/julienmp3player Auto-Generating CRUDs in Sinatra, for fun and profit I’m currently building yet another CMS, this time with Sinatra. And i was having a lot of code duplication in my controllers where i created the usual CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) actions.

Here’s how it works: I have this base class …

]]> Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/sH1ZEvpgFeU/auto-generating-cruds-in-sinatra-for-fun-and-profit http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2011/03/21/auto-generating-cruds-in-sinatra-for-fun-and-profit Fixing the “bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2″ error I’m migrating dumpyourtime.com to my new VPS at Linode and i had a hard time getting this rails (2.3.8) app to work on my setup (REE, Passenger 3/Apache2, MySQL, Ubuntu 10.04) because of the mysql gem.

I was getting this error on my apache …

]]> Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/AQewwDLuvO4/fixing-the-the-bundled-mysql-rb-driver-has-been-removed-from-rails-2-2-error http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/12/25/fixing-the-the-bundled-mysql-rb-driver-has-been-removed-from-rails-2-2-error KahnawakeVoices.com

KahnwawakeVoices.com is a project commissioned by Studio XX for the Mohawk community of Kahnawake. There is a custom CMS which is coded with Ruby on Rails. The front-end is in HTML, CSS (by Julie Desforges), some Flash and a bit of JavaScript.

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]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/IJSEiMHphig/kahnawakevoices-com http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/11/19/kahnawakevoices-com Saving hours with Anemone and Nokogiri Today, i’ve been working on a WordPress site that needed to be moved to another server and also another domain. This site had quite a few (absolute) internal links in its content — that had URLs like http://oldsite.com — and i needed to …

]]> Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/crzfEI6sXHw/saving-hours-with-anemone-and-nokogiri http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/11/08/saving-hours-with-anemone-and-nokogiri Announcing my first jQuery plugin: JulienRSSWidget Recently, i created a jQuery plugin to easily grab and display RSS feeds in your website.

You can see it in action here.

You can download/fork it here.

Let me know what you think!

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/wA-F5aqyQI4/announcing-my-first-jquery-plugin-julienrsswidget http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/10/22/announcing-my-first-jquery-plugin-julienrsswidget howto bootstrap your own server at home (with a dynamic IP) Warning: running a server of any kind at home is a security risk. Security problems are sometimes found in server software, and these can be exploited to gain access to or damage your files. Your computer must be kept absolutely up to date with …

]]> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/9XeExnsysM0/howto-bootstrap-your-own-server-at-home-with-dynamic-ip http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/10/14/howto-bootstrap-your-own-server-at-home-with-dynamic-ip MontrealHackers.com

MontrealHackers.com is a feed aggregator that is built with Ruby on Rails. It also has a Twitter bot that tweets the latest posts.

]]> Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/GqC8Wys1viY/montrealhackers-com http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/09/10/montrealhackers-com Fixing ActionView::SafeBuffer deprecation warning with Ckeditor in Rails 2.3 I’m currently building a small CMS for a client, with Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 and i’m using the rails-ckeditor plugin. I had a lot of these deprecation warnings :

DEPRECATION WARNING: ActionView::SafeBuffer is deprecated! Use …

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/2c6OTDA_WLU/fixing-actionviewsafebuffer-deprecation-warning-with-ckeditor-in-rails-2-3 http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/08/18/fixing-actionviewsafebuffer-deprecation-warning-with-ckeditor-in-rails-2-3 bash script to zip a folder while ignoring git files and copying it to dropbox If like me you do a lot of front-end coding and you have a lot of clients that asks you some little modifications, then you send the modifications back to them in a zip file while ignoring the .git folder and .gitignore file, then copy this zip into …

]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/zt2A3JYJDVc/bash-script-to-zip-a-folder-while-ignoring-git-files-and-copying-it-to-dropbox http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/06/30/bash-script-to-zip-a-folder-while-ignoring-git-files-and-copying-it-to-dropbox Déployer une application Lua (orbit) sur Webfaction Pour déployer une application Lua faite avec le framework orbit sur Webfaction, voici comment j’ai procédé :

Premièrement il faut installer Lua, Luarocks et les rocks nécessaires (orbit, wsapi, et autres)

1- Pour installer Lua:

cd …]]> Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/5sqSAiezO6g/deployer-une-application-lua-orbit-sur-webfaction http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/05/09/deployer-une-application-lua-orbit-sur-webfaction Backuper toutes mes DB MySQL sur un serveur distant Ça fait longtemps que je cherche un truc simple qui puisse me permettre de faire un backup à chaque jours de mes bases de données pour mes projets en développements, et ce, sur un serveur distant*. En cas de problème au moins je ne perdrais pas …

]]> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/3xaJcdCecaE/backuper-toutes-mes-db-mysql-sur-un-serveur-distant http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2010/03/07/backuper-toutes-mes-db-mysql-sur-un-serveur-distant Intro à PhoneGap Aujourd’hui j’ai découvert un beau projet Open-source qui va simplifier la vie à tant de monde : PhoneGap. Avant que je tombe là dessus, je ne comprenait pas que ce genre de framework n’existe pas. Mais pourtant j’avais tord! C’est …

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/t0pbX4YIqxw/intro-a-phonegap http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2009/03/25/intro-a-phonegap Charger une image en Actionscript 3 Je sais qu’on peut trouver cette info un peu partout sur le Web. J’écris ceci parce que j’ai cherché et que je n’ai pas trouvé. Pourtant c’est simple. Pour charger une image dans AS3, il faut commencer par importer ces classes :

import …]]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JulienDesrosiers/~3/2mhAStwT60w/charger-une-image-en-actionscript-3 http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/2008/09/25/charger-une-image-en-actionscript-3 Accéder à son serveur à partir de l’extérieur *** Avertissement, Il faut dire que mon ISP est Vidéotron. Celui ci bloque les connexions entrantes sur le port 80. Il se peut que vous ayiez un ISP qui ne bloque pas ce port. Auquel cas ce tutoriel ne vous sera d’aucune utilité. ***

Ces …

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