Author Archives: Dan Cole

WordPress Stats Teaser

By Dan Cole | Published: March 8, 2010
I’ve begun working on a Python program that does data-mining and graphing. It’s not yet completed, but I wanted to do a little teaser of things to come. Below is a bar graph of all of the comments made in WordPress Trac on the weekday they were made. Take from it was you wish. The data [...]
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Project Listing Site

By Dan Cole | Published: February 12, 2010
I’m going to slowly change this site over to a project listing site for the most part. seams like the best plan for my schedule.
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Technical Art

By Dan Cole | Published: October 2, 2009
I thought I’d post a picture of the usage of my hard drive. The Fedora (Linux) Operating System provides a cool picture of how much space each folder takes up.
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How do WordPress Hooks Work?

By Dan Cole | Published: June 20, 2009
Why were WordPress hook created? Why do we need them? WordPress hooks solve a fundamental problem with dynamic function calls in PHP: How do you insert 3rd party functions with a static function call? But also, how do you use one single call to include an unknown number of functions? What are functions and function calls? Looking into [...]
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A Bad Tip For Speeding Up Your Site

By Dan Cole | Published: June 3, 2009
I take most things with a grain of salt. One thing in particular keeps popping up and because of my web experience I just have to question and test what I’m being told. The tip in question is converting particular PHP tags into static HTML to speed up your site. It was #2 on Pro [...]
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The IE6 Problem In My Eyes

By Dan Cole | Published: June 3, 2009
I’ve written CSS for almost a decade and it has lead me to develop a natural instinct to write code the right that just works for every browser. This has two part however, the first is that I don’t often go out creating the most uniquely code sites and the second is I’ve found the [...]
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Standard Theme Hook Names

By Dan Cole | Published: May 19, 2009
To make customizing WordPress themes easier, theme developers have started to include hooks in their themes. They are often referred to as WordPress Hooks, because they use WordPress function to manage them and do the heavy work, but they aren’t bounded by any naming convention or locations in the WordPress Software or any of its [...]
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WordPess Theme Modifications

By Dan Cole | Published: May 19, 2009
Earlier this year it was predicted that theme frameworks were going to be the big thing on the block and with that came child-themes. As with anything, there are different view points as to what a WordPress themes should be, what frameworks should do, and how to modify themes. This has lead to some interesting [...]
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