2014
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A Tale of Two Package Managers: Composer and NPM
Oct 16
How Composer and NPM do things wrige and, at the same time, very very wrong.
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WordPress, Security, and Member Management
Oct 15
If you’re logging in to WordPress as an administrator just to write a post, you’re doing it wrong.
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Ethical Quandary: iPhones and Encryption
Oct 14
Is Apple’s new stance on phone data encryption a good thing or a bad thing? The FBI, at least, thinks it’s bad. I say they’re wrong.
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Email Syndication
Oct 13
For years now, I’ve taken a very passive approach to syndicating site content. That changes today.
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Content and Quantum Mechanics
Oct 10
If there were a way to use the Heisenberg uncertainty principal in computing, maybe we could have real digital rights management.
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Copyright, DRM, and Diminishing Returns
Oct 9
By driving down the cost of doing business, the publishing industry has inadvertently driven down the barrier to competition as well.
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Code, Credentials, and Public Repositories
Oct 8
Like most developers, I’m lazy. It’s easier to define a root-level constant with an API key or dashboard password than it is to program an interface for setting and storing those credentials. Unfortunately, it means I can very easily slip up and distribute those credentials to the world.
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WordPress Plugins – Return on Investment
Oct 4
Investing in WordPress plugins isn’t likely to return too much – unless those are premium plugins.
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The Value of Peer Review
Oct 3
No matter your position, your tenure, or your experience, you should always have someone else double check your code.
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jQuery and Cross-site Scripting
Oct 2
Never trust user input, even if it’s coming from an allegedly trustworthy source.
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Software: Cautionary Tales
Sept 29
Sometimes we only learn from personal experience. Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to live through them yourself.
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Modular Code
Sept 27
Composer is a potential solution for theme/plugin dependencies in WordPress. But it will take some time before we flesh out the solution fully.