Production vs. Developement for Debugging Recently, we ran into an issue on a Rails application we are hosting on Heroku, which caused a dreaded 500 error. In the development environment, Rails spits out a helpful HTML page showing information about the error and the stack trace from the request. There are also many tools to [...]
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Basing your Design on an Existing WordPress Theme
Design WordpressWordPress is not only one of the most popular blogging platforms these days, but also a powerful and highly customizable CMS (content management system), making it a smart (and popular) choice for a very wide range of sites – from e-commerce and magazines to your typical personal blog. Both free and paid themes makes it [...]
Google Chrome Browser Trick: Clear your Cache for a Single Page
ProgrammingThe browser cache is a wonderful thing. Automagically, large files such as images, media, CSS and javascript will download to your hard drive when you first visit a site. What this means for you is that websites will load much faster the second time you visit them, because many of the files required to view [...]
HTML/CSS – Implement Drop Caps with Underline Using First-Letter CSS Selector
Design ProgrammingA few weeks ago, I was having some problems trying to implement a heading design from PSD to CSS. The headings in the design were using ‘drop caps’, which means the first letter is significantly bigger than the rest of the word. In addition this specific implementation required that the first letter was not underlined, but that every other [...]
WordPress: Get the Excerpt Automatically Using the Post ID Outside of the Loop
ProgrammingIn WordPress the_excerpt() needs to be run inside of the loop. If you try to use the_excerpt outside of the loop you get a big fat nada. In addition we find it to be the easiest for end users to automatically generate excerpts based on post content, instead of requiring them to use the excerpt [...]