A big thanks to TechTracer for pointing me in the right direction for a frustrating WordPress error.
After upgrading to WordPress 2.3 (fairly painless, despite the major changes due to “tag” implementation) I couldn’t upload images. Any image over 100K would produce an error stating: Allowed memory size of 16388608 bytes exhausted (tried to [...]

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Smashing Magazine has posted 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware of and it’s a great read. Several things in there that all developers have probably been guilty of at one time or another. Read it and then try to remove as much of them from your sites as you can.
Smashing Magazine also provided a [...]

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WordPress 2.3 is right around the corner. Schedule for release on Sept. 24, it has several nice, new features. To get up to speed, I’d recommend reading 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.3. It’s the first article I’ve seen that sums up all the work and changes from 2.2 to 2.3 in [...]

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Thanks to Dougal Campbell’s Text-Filter-Suite, all the posts on the site should be formatted in “pirate speak” in honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Everything should resume to normal tomorrow. Now go talk like a pirate.

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I’ve had a few questions/comments on using Custom Styles with FCK Editor, so here’s a style that I created that will format any link you apply it to as a red button that changes color on mouse over.

Add this CSS to the fck.css and portal.css files in you PORTALS folder.

/* Both variations –a.color– and –span.color [...]

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This has got to be one of the coolest image editing innovations ever. Evidently, one of the developers of this technology has been hired by Adobe. Let’s hope this is added to Photoshop, or maybe even better, as a plug-in.

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