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Get Up and Running with Mercurial and BitBucket

Scott Zagar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:07:29 +0000

Over the holidays Santa hooked me up with a MacBook Air. I decided to take advantage of this clean slate and streamline my development process by incorporating version control. Here’s a 10-step tutorial on getting Mercurial and Bitbucket integrated on … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.2: Creating Custom Permalinks for Non-WP Data

Scott Zagar — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:25:24 +0000

This short tutorial explains how to use WordPress filter hooks to create a custom permalink structure based on data from a non-WP database, and how to access and use URL variables within custom templates. Today I had the task of … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Historical Significance of JavaScript

Scott Zagar — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:55:55 +0000

Over today’s Saturday morning coffee, I tuned into the Yahoo! public lecture series given by JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford. In the first lecture, Crockford presents the history of computers and programming from the JavaScript developer’s perspective. Here I’ve distilled the gist … Continue reading →

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Kohana 3.1: Snippets

Scott Zagar — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:47:59 +0000

I’ve been working on an app using Kohaha 3.1 HMVC PHP framework. Although I’m stoked on Kohana 3.1, the documentation isn’t as easy to get at as I’d like. So here we go: snippets! Mostly for the Query Builder. No … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.2: Writing a Plugin, part 2 of 3

Scott Zagar — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:13:32 +0000

In this tutorial we will implement an an object-oriented solution into our admin pages. What we’ve done thus far in Part 1 could be used as a basic starting point for any plugin. We created the plugin and the initialization … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.2: Writing a Plugin, Part 1 of 3

Scott Zagar — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:59:25 +0000

In this three-part tutorial I will cover the steps to creating a WordPress 3.2 plugin to manage a Web Projects portfolio. This part focuses on setting up the plugin and WordPress 3 administration screens. Part 2 focuses on implementing essential … Continue reading →

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Drupal 6: Text-based Blog Pagination

Scott Zagar — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:52:27 +0000

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add text-based next/previous pagination functionality to a Drupal blog. I needed next/back article pagination for my Drupal blog on my other web site. What I wanted on my Drupal blog is essentially … Continue reading →

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WordPress Snippet: Hide Page Titles of Select Pages

Scott Zagar — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Here is a quick programmatic usage of three lines of PHP along with the custom fields for pages to control whether the page title is displayed. The problem presented itself to me on my “Profile” page, where I have a … Continue reading →

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Hello, world. This is going to get complicated.

Scott Zagar — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:00:16 +0000

Welcome to my new web site. For this iteration of zagar.biz I’ve decided to use WordPress. In the past I’ve used my own CMS, but WordPress 3 is looking pretty good now so I will move over to it. I’m … Continue reading →

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