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Fixing YouTube embeds in WordPress

Tim — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:42:32 +0000

In some wordpress themes, youtube embeds just show up as a black screen. As discussed here, the solution is adding a transparency setting to the iframe’s src. However, the solution in that thread only works if the src is right next to the frameborder. Updated code below if you are running into this problem New... Read more »

Automate Adding to Trello on iOS with Launch Center Pro and Pythonista

Tim — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:38:14 +0000

I love using Trello to organize my life and work. While I kind of like it’s iOS app, sometimes navigating to a board to add a card can be a little time consuming. I want this process to be faster. I also use Launch Center Pro to get some quick actions that I miss from... Read more »

Why Git?

Tim — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:45:55 +0000

A few months ago I gave a presentation at work about why we moved from SVN to distributed source and git. Totally forgot to put it in a post here. I also had a lot of fun playing with reveal.js for the slides and setting up github pages. I cover the following: What is traditional... Read more »

Adding a Delete Line hotkey in Xcode

Tim — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:49:20 +0000

When I switched from eclipse to sublime text 2, the first hotkey I moved over was cmd+d to delete a line. I use it pretty heavily. After using Xcode for a few months it was driving me crazy that it didn’t have delete line as an option under hotkeys. Thanks to stackoverflow for the solve.... Read more »

Citrix CCA Exam for Windows 2003 Server and XenApp

Tim — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:26:19 +0000

Through the successful completion of the Citrix CCA XenApp Windows Server 2003 exam (1Y0-A23 exam) you can achieve validation of your administration skills with the achievement of a Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) certification. This exam is the only requirement for achieving the certification, which is a valuable credential to obtain in the IT industry. As... Read more »

How to Remove or Change the way WordPress Links to Images in Posts

Tim — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:34:43 +0000

By default, WordPress will link directly to an image in the category or post view. In a project I was working on today I wanted to change that. On the category view I wanted the image just to link to the post, and in the post, I didn’t want a link at all. Useful trick... Read more »

Getting Started with Varnish Edge Side Includes and WordPress

Tim — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:20:35 +0000

There are a lot of cases on blogs where once you write the post, the cache for that page doesn’t really have to be updated all that often. Comments can be powered by Disqus so you don’t need to bust the cache every time someone comments. If you make a change to a post, it’s... Read more »

Generating an InlineModelAdmin Form on the fly in Django

Tim — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:17:52 +0000

I’m adding drag/drop uploading to the django admin for one of our open source projects called Stager. A blog post about that will follow, it’s not screen-shot ready yet. While doing this I knew we needed a pretty seamless transition after the upload finished, and that we would have to refresh the inline. I didn’t... Read more »

iOS: Multiple Lines of Text in a UITableViewCell

Tim — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:32:42 +0000

Have you ever wanted to display multiple lines of text in your Table Cell? It’s easy to do in your UITableViewController. First, let’s define the type of font we’re going to use. We’ll need this in 2 places: Next, calculate the height of the cell by using the height of a Label: Finally, we’ll set some... Read more »

How to tell if it’s HTML5

Tim — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:44:32 +0000

The top 10 best WordPress plugins to get up and running with everything you need.

Tim — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:39:24 +0000

These are the top 10 best wordpress plugins I use to quickly get a wordpress blog up and running with everything I need. I used these last week to get a new site going in about 2 hours. Leave some time for analytics to catch up and you are all set. Google Analyticator harnesses the power... Read more »

Get 18+ Gigs on a Free Dropbox account for $10-$20

Tim — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:03:28 +0000

Dropbox recently raised the cap on it’s free tier to 18 gigs. But, you only get 2 gigs out of the gate. The rest is easy to get, but takes a little leg work. First, log into Dropbox and click on “Get free space!” at the top right. Then, do all the Facebook/twitter/social offers to... Read more »

Compiling Textmate

Tim — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:24:16 +0000

TextMate 2 recently went open source on github and a coworker friend of mine was asking if I had compiled it yet. Here’s the quick and easy on how to compile it. Prerequisites Either homebrew or macports (I’ll be using homebrew for this post) Xcode 4.4+ (make sure to open at least once and accept licence... Read more »

Getting Started with Solr and Django

Tim — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:45:56 +0000

Solr is a very powerful search tool and it is pretty easy to get the basics, such as full text search, facets, and related assets up and running pretty quickly. We will be using haystack to do the communication between Django and Solr. All code for this can be viewed on github. Install Assuming you... Read more »

Hiding fields in the Django admin based on permission

Tim — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:53:46 +0000

Quick and easy if you have one group of users that can only edit an asset, and another group that has publishing rights

Animate an AdWhirlView from the Bottom of the Screen

Tim — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:50:47 +0000

If you are using AdWhirl and want the ad to slide in from the bottom of the screen when your View loads, use this snippet:

Adding Done and Cancel buttons to an iOS number pad

Tim — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:49:55 +0000

There are some cases when you may want to have a “Done” or “Cancel” button on an iOs number pad when editing a text field. This doesn’t come by default, but is easy to add. See the example snippets below, or check out the code on github. Sample Usage: DoneCancelNumberPadToolbar.h DoneCancelNumberPadToolbar.m Special thanks to akozlik... Read more »

Improve your Magento workflow: Use git or mercurial

Tim — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:18:07 +0000

Most of our new projects at work are on mercurial and I’ve moved most of my personal projects over to git. We do, unfortunately, still have one Magento install that lives in our old subversion repository. If you’ve ever tried to work with a project the size of Magento in SVN with branching, you know... Read more »

iOS Game Engines

Tim — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:06:21 +0000

After playing Rovio’s new Amazing Alex game for a while, and seeing this article on BGR this morning, it made me remember some old success stories that I had read about, and I got to thinking about what it would take to develop a game for iOS. More just to see what options were out... Read more »

Refreshing all the css on a page using jQuery

Tim — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:16:03 +0000

I have a client project where we let them customize some css attributes in the admin, show them the updates in a small preview area, then save the changes back to the server. The custom css attributes are in a small css file that is generated on pageload and then cached to the server. All... Read more »