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Web Fonts are NOT the Future of the Web

Web Fonts are NOT the Future of the Web

My apologies in advance to my good friends in web design, but I am going to take off my web designer hat and put on my web developer hat for a minute.  And yes, you heard me right, web fonts are not the future of the web. Web designers have an amazing impact on the web as they are [...]

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Web Apps for the Masses

Web Apps for the Masses

I have been interested for a few years now in the concept of making web apps available for smaller companies and organizations. There has been a lot said over the years about the advantages of web apps over web sites and there are some interesting stats showing a recent and rapid increase in web applications [...]

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Slides From WordCamp Chicago 2011 Talk

Beyond the Theme – Using WordPress as an API View more presentations from David Tufts

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WordCamp Chicago 2011

I’ll be speaking at the “WordCamp Chicago 2011” conference on July 30th and 31st, really looking forward to this great opportunity, it will be a blast.  Below is the summery of what I will be covering during the session: “Beyond the Theme” is a talk aimed at professional WordPress theme and plugin developers which reviews [...]

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10 Steps to Setting-Up Your PC as a Development Server for WordPress

This is your step-by-step guide to setting up a WordPress web development environment on a PC using XAMPP, WordPress 3.x, and Subversion. XAMPP installs PHP, MySQL, and Apache on your PC turning it into a local web server for development purposes.  Once installed you can begin creating custom WordPress themes and plugins in your own [...]

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Using Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0

So what is all of the buzz about custom post types in WordPress 2.9 and 3.0? What can we do with a “post_type” and why does it matter? For some of us developers out there who have known the secret that WordPress is actually much more than just a blogging platform this in no big [...]

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