May 31
Make Web Not War 2010 – a recap
With guitarpick dogtags, military paraphranalia and a notebook with the cover text “Why the f@&#* is Microsoft doing this?” Make Web Not War set a new standard for conferences. The first words out of my mouth as I stepped off the plane in Montreal Wednesday afternoon were “What the Fuck!” (yes, I’m a real class [...]
May 27
The Unholy Quatern at Web Not War 2010 in Montreal
UPDATE: The Unholy Quatern session I did at Web Not War 2010 was loosely based on an article I wrote for the Microsoft Expression Newsletter last year. To get a more in-depth walk-through of my work process and some more code examples etc take a look at the original article found here. After 8 years [...]
May 14
Cool Author Box: Free WordPress Plugin
After designing and building the Fancy Profile Box for the Pink & Yellow Media site I published an article on how to recreate it as a cool author box in your WordPress blog. This tutorial spurred a lot of interest and I got several emails and tweets asking me to convert it to a plugin. [...]
May 10
Twitter force-follow exploit makes us all friendless
Last night our dear friends at Gizmodo released a simple exploit that allowed you to force Twitter users to follow you, an exploit already nicknamed “twape” (a combination of the words “twitter” and “rape”… classy). The exploit was ridiculously simple: Just write the word “accept” in front of a username (so for example “accept mor10″) [...]
May 07
Build a fancy WordPress author box
If you have a WordPress site or blog with multiple authors it might be useful to create a custom author box for each of them so the readers can get more information about the author and see their other posts etc. This tutorial is an extension of my Fancy Profile or Author Box tutorial from [...]
