http://www.davidscotttufts.com Husband, Father of Six, and Web Developer Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:51:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/13/web-fonts-are-not-the-future-of-the-web/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/13/web-fonts-are-not-the-future-of-the-web/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:24:45 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=199

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 [...]]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/13/web-fonts-are-not-the-future-of-the-web/feed/ 0 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/10/web-apps-for-the-masses/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/10/web-apps-for-the-masses/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:17:32 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=189

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 [...]]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/09/10/web-apps-for-the-masses/feed/ 3 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/31/slides-from-wordcamp-chicago-2011-talk/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/31/slides-from-wordcamp-chicago-2011-talk/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:35:48 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=171 Beyond the Theme – Using WordPress as an API View more presentations from David Tufts]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/31/slides-from-wordcamp-chicago-2011-talk/feed/ 0 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/01/wordcamp-chicago-2011/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/01/wordcamp-chicago-2011/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:54:31 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=168 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 [...]]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2011/07/01/wordcamp-chicago-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/10/12/10-steps-to-setting-up-your-pc-as-a-development-server-for-wordpress/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/10/12/10-steps-to-setting-up-your-pc-as-a-development-server-for-wordpress/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:17:31 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=87 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 [...]]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/10/12/10-steps-to-setting-up-your-pc-as-a-development-server-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/02/23/using-custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/ http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/02/23/using-custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:16:32 +0000 David Scott Tufts http://www.davidscotttufts.com/?p=110 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 [...]]]> http://www.davidscotttufts.com/2010/02/23/using-custom-post-types-in-wordpress-3-0/feed/ 0