The last couple days I’ve struggled with adding custom rewrite rules to WordPress so that a user can edit settings for their account on the front end. The code and methods are straight forward enough and can be found on the codex page. But I was running into an issue where when I went to [...]
People never realize just how important a dog is until it’s too late. In life we get yelled at and cursed and kicked around, but when we’re gone, people wish they had us back.Hank the Cowdog
There was recently a scare over a zero day vulnerability it timthumb timthumb pushed a fix out right away. I’ve seen people posting saying they didn’t know where to look for timthumb.php or if their themes used it so I threw together a quick plugin to find references to timthumb in your WordPress install. The [...]
These questions are also why comparisons don’t really make any sense. Julius Caesar was weeping for all the wrong reasons. Alexander and he had different visions, they were looking to build different things in different times. Similarly, it was meaningless for my 17-year-old self to measure myself against a very different person’s desires at a [...]
I found an interesting piece of software tonight. Doggelganger compares an image of your face to a database of adoptable dogs, and identifies the best match for you. If the software truly does do facial comparison on the dogs in the database it could have lots of interesting applications in dog identification.
Really interesting talk on how the fashion industry thrives without patents and copyrights. The video is very relevent to a lot of the news I’ve read about software patents and patent trolls.
In the last week I’ve become very interested in how much a group of hackers could change the landscape of an area just by providing apps that open up data resources and make them easier to access and use. I initially got the idea from @onyxfish‘s Hack Tyler project. However, what I’m most interested in [...]
I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for a while now. It would be great if we could get more shelters running like this. In Utah we are lucky enough have No More Homeless Pets which provides spay/neuter, vaccinations and many other veterinary services at reduced prices, but I’d really like to see more shelters [...]
