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By bgt, on 6th March 2012 Have you ever wanted to see what your website looks like in an older (or newer!) browser than you are using? Then try Browserling interactive cross-browser testing platform
Warning: this program is seriously useful, and after you really get to like playing with the different versions there is a Time’s Up message which gives two . . . → Read More: Browserling Interactive Cross-Browser Testing Platform
By bgt, on 10th April 2009 We came accross a bug in a bot filtering page the other day. The page called a routine which used a regular expression to check for validly formatted input. The function was called from several places and worked fine. In just one branch it appeared to fail to validate the input, and continued execution of . . . → Read More: Make sure you exit after a PHP Header Location
By bgt, on 27th March 2009 In order to customize a WordPress theme, you may need to decide which template file needs editing in order to provide a conditional display. Say you want to have a link to you favorite book retailers which only appears on your books page http://techcosupport.com/press/category/books/, then you may need to build a custom template for that . . . → Read More: Customising WordPress Using Templates
By bgt, on 26th March 2009 If you are considering customising WordPress, you may be interested to know that it can be configured to use custom Page Templates for different Pages. This means that several or all pages could have their own unique Page Templates and so appear completely different.
If you want to create a custom page template called MyTemplate, . . . → Read More: Customising WordPress Using Page Templates
By bgt, on 7th February 2009 The term Agile is one of the buzz words in the Business Analysis press at the moment. Agile methodologies promote a project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation. It uses a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, and a set of engineering best practices that allow for rapid delivery of high-quality . . . → Read More: Successful Development with Agile Methodologies
By bgt, on 6th February 2009 Sometimes we work for customers who have high security environments, with restrictive settings that can cause problems for developers. An example recently occurred after a Microsoft security scare, and the security policy was tightened to exclude ActiveX controls and client side scripting. When I noticed the dreaded Information Bar drop down on IE7 helpfully warning . . . → Read More: A day in the life of a WordPress Blogger
By bgt, on 26th January 2009 We came across this really helpful resource on codex.wordpress.org which tells you how to fix up your WordPress theme, and make it Widget ready. Widgets are now a standard part of the WordPress install so to reach the broadest audience all modern themes should support them, as well as supporting old style sidebars.
You need . . . → Read More: Widgetizing Themes
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