Category: Notes (Page 41 of 49)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

WordPress Pointers: What’s Required For Development?

August 16, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I was in college, I had a year’s worth of classes where we did all of our homework assignments and projects in C.

I specifically remember hearing that if a person couldn’t grasp the concept of pointers and their associated functions, then they may not be best suited for programming. Although I think that understanding this is valuable, I’m not sure I fully agree. I digress.

Every now and then, I come across a new blog post that is breaking down pointers in C. They’re usually of the following flavor:

Pointers Made Easy
The 10 Step Guide To Understanding Pointers
Pointers: Let’s Get The Point!
…or something like that

Today, I came across another post doing the same thing. For what it’s worth, I think it’s well-written and I’m actually in favor of keeping this information current in the blogosphere.

But it did get me thinking about “WordPress pointers,” or what is WordPress’ equivalent of pointers?

Building Comment Images For WordPress

August 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I shared some of my thoughts on building Single Post Message, I received some good feedback via Twitter and Email from others who enjoyed reading about the work that went into building the plugin.

Though my approach to this particular plugin is different than that of Single Post Message, I thought I’d do the same for this just to share a slightly different perspective.

So here’s how I went about building Comment Images for WordPress:

Building Single Post Message For WordPress

July 31, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

As a developer, one of the things that I love to do is read how others created their work. Sure, we’re all a different type of programmer but that doesn’t mean that I’m not interested in the work that others are doing.

In fact, I find that I often learn new things from seeing how other people face the technical challenges of their particular platform.

So, to that end, I thought I’d share the work that went into and that tools that I used to create Single Post Message.

PEAR Command Not Found

July 9, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the weekend, I updated my MAMP PRO installation to 2.1.0. After doing so, I needed to reinstall PHPUnit via Pear but I hit a snag: I kept receive the “pear command not found” console message.

Luckily, it’s a relatively easy fix but it does come with a caveat:

Assign Users To Groups Using Hominid

May 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to integrating MailChimp into Rails applications, Hominid is my gem of choice. It’s implementation is relatively straightforward and it stays true to the MailChimp API.

I rarely have issues with it, but I recently needed to funnel users into specific groups which were part of a list and hit a bit of snag with the merge vars parameter of the listSubscribe function. Continue reading