If you’ve messed around with symfony at all you undoubtedly have seen or gon through the Askeet tutorial. Like many developers, the Askeet tutorial was how I dove into symfony and really appreciated how in depth it was. However, Askeet really doesn’t reflect symfony’s current code base and isn’t as useful for new [...]

Since WordPress doesn't support rss feeds for pages out of the box and I needed it, I decided to write this plugin to satisfy my need for now. Like the title says, this is quick and dirty, but it gets the job done. The next version of this plugin will be an RSS 2 [...]

I take security pretty seriously because I've had about a handful of sites hacked on my watch (luckily none of it was code that I'd written). Over the years I've gotten used to programming with security in mind and there are a few PHP 'nevers' that I don't do any more. A few days ago [...]

If you use WordPress for a lot of sites, installing it with SVN is really the way to go. I've been switching over all of my blogs to use SVN since it makes updating sooooo much easier. In fact, updating WordPress used to be my biggest gripe about the program, and now I [...]

This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of web design colleges. She invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address: sarah.scrafford25@gmail.com. Adobe Photoshop and Corel PhotoPaint are useful tools, no doubt, but there's more to image editors than determined by [...]

Recently I've been developing websites using the Bluprint CSS framework. Blueprint itself is not new (it's a little over a year old), but I hadn't really committed to using it as a standard for my business until about a month ago. So What's the Advantage? The main advantage to using a css framework is speed. [...]

If you're a web developer or designer, chances are you've come in contact with the Linux operating system - most likely at the web server level. My first experience with Linux was in 1998 when I worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where our sys admins built web servers using this cool open source [...]

It's pretty easy to hijack some core WordPress code and use it to extend the functionality of your WordPress site while keeping a cohesive look and feel. Basically, this technique creates a WordPress 'shell' that you can code inside of; utilizing all of WordPress's functions and themes, but leaving out the blog. I [...]

I was finally able to watch episodes 5-14 of TAC over a 3 day stretch last week. Overall I was pretty impressed with the show, even though my initial impressions left me wanting more. The acting got better, and they actually showed how some things were done, and some of the contestants shared [...]

When I find a new blog that I really like or think has some good information I usually want to read the whole thing, and in the past, I've been frustrated by how annoying it is to do it online. I just want all posts in one document, free of ads, that I can [...]