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Another week, another set of ah-ha moments, here is just a quick list of things I've picked up on this week that might be of help: Titanium won't launch emulator For what ever reason, when first getting everything going, installing the Android SDK and Titanium that you could not launch your Android project on a [...]

With the coming release of WordPress 2.7 we now have an easy way to separate out your pings and trackbacks from your comments. I will be using the default theme WordPress comes with to show you have to do this.  Below is the important code you should focus on:

Backwards-Compatible Spam and Delete Buttons for WordPress Add Spam and Delete buttons right to the comments for WordPress installs below 2.6. Disabling the update nag Removes that nagging "WordPress [Version] is available! Please update now" message from your admin area. Add Your Website to Firefox’s Search Bar Using OpenSearch XML The ability to search right [...]

Have you ever needed to see what a theme looks like with your content but you did not want to have to recreate your whole site on a testing server and import all your data?  Well, Theme Test Drive to the rescue. You simply download the plugin, unzip it, upload it to your WordPress install, [...]

David Walsh posted a priceless and overly useful post about Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools Ajax but the only problem with that is that he used MooTools ;). For those that want to do the same thing with jQuery here is the JavaScript code, please have a read at his post for [...]

Today I had a need to get all posts between to dates in WordPress, between now and a year ago. After searching and searching I could find the answer I needed. So I decided to just write the query myself which I have done many times before but not with WordPress' database scheme.

If you are anything like me, you find using the Rich Text editor for Wordpress to be a bit daunting for any number of reason. For me, it is mainly when I go to add custom code and go back to the visual editor and it just disappears. Yes I know I can go in and hack the thing to get it to appreciate my code, but really, I find that to be to much work. Besides, I found a really nice alternative, Quicktags!

Here is a quick tip for adding rss feeds of your favorite sites to the tip / sponsored link / web clip area of Gmail. The area in question: We will do this by going to "Settings" which will be at the top right of the page.  Once there go to "Web Clips" and in [...]