Posts tagged “programming” — page 2

May 2010 · 1 min read

Launch Photoshop (Or Any App) From The Command Line on Mac OS X

I often find myself coding with the terminal open. Cding around a web app project I usually end up at some point launching Photoshop. Either to touch up or work on a psd, png, jpg ...etc. I fire up...

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May 2010 · 1 min read

Programmatically Turn Off Comments in Wordpress with Filter

To turn comments off programmatically with a filter in Wordpress, you can set the post object's comment\status variable to "closed". Call the filter at some point after the post is loaded but...

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Apr 2010 · 1 min read

Intercepting the Wordpress Loop with Pre_get_posts

deprecated (see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function\Reference/query\postsPost\.26\Page\Parameters) Using the "pre\get\posts" filter you can intercept the Wordpress loop and override or set...

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Apr 2010 · 1 min read

Thematic Function Reference

I could not find a listing of all thematic theme functions for Wordpress online. So the following is just a recursive grep of the thematic directory. Each function needs to prepended with...

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Apr 2010 · 1 min read

Yield a Block within Rails Helper Method with Multiple Content_tags Using Concat

To clean up some repetitive html coding in views, pass a block of text to a helper function which will wrap it for you the same way, each and every time. For example, I have a 'help' link which...

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Mar 2010 · 2 min read

Carrier Email Addresses for Sending SMS over Email

Just for reference, here are the carrier email addresses for sending email as an SMS. Look up the carrier for the phone in question, then send an email in this format...

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Why are PHP5 Namespaces Defined Using a Backslash?

Why are PHP namespaces defined using a backslash? It looks ugly. Unless of course, there is a good reason for the "\"? Does this namespaced code run more efficiently on Windows? Since namespaces...

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Very Basic Git Workflow

Very, very basic git workflow

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Using Module Mixins to Extend Classes and Objects in Ruby

The module and class below demonstrate how to use instance methods and class methods from "module mixins". The thing to remember is scope. For instance, to use class methods within instance methods...

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Hacking Rails Plugins

Using the Acts as Taggable On plugin to add categories to a model class, I wanted to override the to\param method and place the name attribute in the url. The plugin, installed as a gem, source...

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Setup Wildcard Subdomain on Localhost for Development Work without /Etc/hosts TomFoolery

Step 1. Open up your browser and visit http://www.hexxie.com. You can also go to anything.hexxie.com and everything.hexxie.com, which will resolve to your local machine (assuming it's localhost at...

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Oct 2009 · 1 min read

Installing Scala on Mac OS X Leopard

I followed the instructions from here http://arvinderkang.com/2009/09/01/installing-scala-on-snow-leopard/ but I used version 2.7.6 (rather than .5) I installed scala under /usr/local/scala so I...