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 and add it
Second, [...]
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 site development?
Stepping back for [...]
Sidebar Category Links in Wordpress
Turns out its pretty easy to add a new category sidebar link in Wordpress if you aren’t using a sidebar widget. For example, check out the new Useful link area that I’ve added to this site to list any articles I’ve written that may be considered useful.
To do this, I opened up the Sidebar template [...]
Picking color schemes with kuler
Just discovered Kuler today. Looks like a great tool for picking a color scheme for a web site. You can also create your own (but you’ll need to signup for a free Adobe account to save it).