Very excited to have a copy of Adam DuVander’s new book on mapscripting: Map Scripting 101. The book was published by No Starch Press, which has also published some of my favorite hands-on programming books, Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts, Wicked Cool PHP, and Ruby By Example. I stumbled across Adam’s awesome post on geolocation for [...]
If you’re developing an Admin interface for your WordPress Theme or Plugin, and you get this error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page It has always been my experience that this error is thrown because the paths in your theme or plugin’s URLs are off. Maybe you are hacking someone’s plugin [...]
Excited to mess around with Padrino, a web app framework built on top of Sinatra, and which comes with a built-in admin interface (“akin to Django”, the docs say). There have been a number of Sinatra bundles and plugins to make getting going with Sinatra faster, for doing the repetitive things like building CRUD apps. [...]
I’ve been working on a Sinatra app to serve as a web development portfolio. I decided it is time to put it online using my shared host, Webfaction. Here in this post, I’m not going to go over all the steps to set up a Sinatra app. You can find my tutorial on that here: [...]
For fun I had been working on Sinatra apps and experimenting with the Google Maps API. Worked out well that I needed to create a social “web 2.0″ application for school. So I adapted my Sinatra app to be a blog, and incorporated Geocoding and reverse Geocoding via the Google Maps JavaScript API. Currently, the [...]
A nice technique I discovered last week, mostly because I am lazy. Typically when handling form data with PHP, you need to create variables one by one, plucking values out of the PHP superglobal associative array, $_POST. For each form field whose value you want to validate and store, we usually declare variables and assign [...]
I’ve released an Emacs color theme that is easy on my colorblind eyes. It is up on github: http://github.com/zhannes/emacs-colorblind-theme. Small screenshot below, you can view the full Screenshot here. My theme is based on Oleg Shaldybin’s Railscasts color theme, a Textmate theme that he ported to Emacs. To use the colorblind theme, you need to [...]
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