New Plugin: Extend KSES

[ 8.24.09 ] by Todd

Over the many deployments of Wordpress and Wordpress MU, we have found that our clients are constantly requesting the ability to post HTML that the core of Wordpress does not support. Mostly, it is HTML used for video embedding, but it can also be enhancements to existing HTML tags that are supported.
Today, we present [...]

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Fifty sites. Ten months. One CMS.

[ 7.16.09 ] by Jamie

Tierra customized WordPress as a CMS to make Online Publishing
more Efficient.

During the past year Tierra and WNET.ORG (PBS Channel Thirteen in New York) collaborated on a groundbreaking project that cut WNET.ORG’s costs, streamlined their web publishing process and improved the user experience on many of their individual program sites. At the heart of our solution was WordPress Multi-User, an open source blogging platform.

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How Bad is IE8?

[ 7.2.09 ] by Todd

Watch what happens when an infomercial announcer and a design team pair up to discuss a bug fix to Internet Explorer 8.

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WPDB Profiling 1.1 Released

[ 7.1.09 ] by Todd

An all new version of Tierra’s WPDB Profiling Plugin for Wordpress has been released. The plugin, which we released January of 2009 displays all of the db queries at the very footer of the page showing any slow and potentially hazardous queries which can bring your db to a halt. The [...]

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PHP Tip: Inline StdClass Object Creation

[ 6.26.09 ] by Doug

One of my pet peeves is that PHP does not have syntax to support inline StdClass object creation. This tip shows you how.

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MySQL Snippet: Pick a Daily Featured Item Automatically

[ 6.24.09 ] by Doug

Here is how to add a featured item on your website that changes automatically each day. For this example let’s assume you have an e-commerce site with a MySQL table called “products” that has a column called stock_count which contains the count of each product in stock. We want to feature products in stock, changing daily and also changing automatically if during the day the product goes out of stock.

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Code Snippet: Preprocessing Moveable Type import files for Wordpress

[ 6.17.09 ] by Doug

We’ve moved a couple of clients from older Moveable Type installations to Wordpress and each time Wordpress doesn’t handle the text paragraph formating from the Moveable Type import file. Here is a quick script we created to convert the BODY and EXTENDED BODY sections of the Moveable Type import file to HTML paragraph formatting.

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Sorry, you missed me!

[ 6.1.09 ] by Cheryl

I’m sitting at home today, waiting for the FedEx guy. This is a common story for me lately. I ordered a new iMac last week, and although the one-unit iMac appealed to my need for simplicity and fewer objects, it has arrived so far in three boxes, on two different days, through two different parcel carriers and three different shipping methods.

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Processing: Merging code and design

[ 5.11.09 ] by Doug

Last week the local software developers group that I am a member of hosted a talk by Ben Fry, the co-creator of Processing. Ben holds a doctorate from the MIT Media Lab where he was a part of the Aesthetics + Computation Group. ACG’s purpose is to “…work toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces”. In other words, very cool stuff.

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iCook therefore iPhone

[ 5.6.09 ] by Sam

One of the perks to living a double life (one as Tierra’s office manager, the other as an aspiring pastry chef), is that you get to see important aspects of one from the perspective of the other. Case in point: the iphone. We make apps, talk apps, make up apps and trade apps at work and help guide our clients in the process of creating their own iPhone apps. Tierra is well versed on what’s up in the app world.But I never expected to find the iPhone to be a must have tool in kitchens all over New York City…

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