Cross Referencing Posts
By default if you want to link to another post in your WordPress site you have to use an absolute URL. So for example, to link to my post on web development screencasts, I need to add a hyperlink with the full URL: http://blog.praj.com.au/posts/web-development-screencasts/. This isn’t ideal: First, it takes time to find the URL [...]
Minimalist Gmail Firefox Extension
Matt Constatine has come up with a fantastic Minimalist Gmail Firefox extension which cuts out all the guff in Gmail and leaves you with the bare essentials. The other day I was using Gmail without the extension and noticed that Gmail has actually got quite cluttered. If you like it, a donation is the best [...]
That’s nice, but we never use it
Not the words you want to be hearing from your users if you are a developer on a web site or application. Unfortunately it happens more often than you would think. A fantastic new feature is dreamed up and added. It’s tested thoroughly, it looks really good, it will save heaps of time. But no [...]
Dev-Test-Prod
Coming from an enterprise application background (PeopleSoft), I’m used to the dev-test-prod development paradigm: Develop and unit test in the dev environment Migrate and functional/integration test in the test environment Release to the prod environment This is such a ingrained process to me that I thought maybe I should question whether it applies to web [...]
Creating vs Consuming
I read an really good article that mentioned having a balance between creating and consuming. Unfortunately I can’t seem to be able to find it any more. I think the reason is that the concept didn’t hit me straight away… I remember reading the article and then perhaps a day or two later I got [...]