Category: Resources (Page 19 of 60)

A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.

Using Sucuri Antivirus for WordPress

October 19, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about how there’s no such thing as the perfect WordPress host. In the end, it comes down to the requirements of your project that will dictate what host is best for your project.

But what happens when you find yourself placed in this dilemma:

There’s a host that you want to use because of some of the features, but it doesn’t fit the bill for the rest of the project.

Case in point: One of the things that’s popular right now is to have software such as a malware or a virus scanner. And who would fault anyone for wanting that?

I’m a fan of it and it’s something I recommend to most anyone running a web application. In my mind, anything that saves user input of any type should have something like this.

That said, one of the hosts that I often recommend does not have this built-in. So I’ve opted to go with Sucuri Antivirus.

Sucuri Antivirus

I’m a big fan of the service.

jQuery Raty For Star Ratings

October 16, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

I recently wrote about developer maturity. Specifically, I said we should not be afraid to use third-party solutions when possible.

This doesn’t mean we should piecemeal every project together. That isn’t development. That’s implementation (but that’s another post).

Anyway, Andy and I just finished up a project which demonstrates this point quite well. Part of the project called for providing a rating of certain criteria.

As such, we used jQuery Raty for laying the foundation of the rating system.

The Grid Ruler Chrome Extension

October 7, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you work in web development long enough, odds are you’re going to discover your strength lies within writing code or designing a site. It’s possible to be good at both – I’ve seen it in rare cases – but it’s more common for someone to be strong in one area or the other.

As easy as frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, 960gs, and so on have made it for us to build layouts against a grid, it has not – thankfully – removed the need for designers (of course, that was never their intent, anyway).

The reason I bring this up is because years ago, a good friend of a mine – a designer, to be clear – would jokingly say I was pixel approximate.

And he wasn’t wrong.

Why I Recommend SearchWP

October 2, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

For a few years now, I’ve been using SearchWP on this and on a few other sites I’ve either built or had a hand in improving.

SearchWP

Most people who are active in the WordPress development space are aware of this plugin (at least, I think they are), but if you’re someone who’s not involved with WordPress at that level and are looking for a way to improve the search functionality of your site, then I can’t recommend the plugin enough.

Then again, even if you are a developer and you’ve never used it, the same sentiment rings true.

My Suite of Apps: Stache

September 25, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the problems I seem to have (among many, some may say ;) is I can’t seem to find a consistent way to manage bookmarks.

I don’t mean I have a problem using the “Favorites” or the “Star” feature in my web browser. I mean I might as well toss the page into a black hole if I use those features. They are a pain to organize, search, and – for whatever reason – feel like an after thought in terms of features of a browser.

And I’ve tried a number of different ways to go about managing this – if you name it, I’ve probably tried it – and it’s not from lack of knowledge of available applications for things like this either.

But it wasn’t until I found Stache I felt like I finally found a utility that made it easy for me to save resources as I was browsing the web, categorize them as needed, and then be able to search them later using any of my devices.