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How to Quickly Create Reusable Color Palettes in TextMate
Below is a quick video tutorial of using Mac OS’ built-in color picker to create color palletes for use in your CSS documents.
I love jQuery
The theme GeekOut, which as of this moment I am using on this site and may release once I decide to go in a different direction with the design, uses jQuery to accomplish a number of things. 1. The animations that are featured both in the navigation and the social media icons I’m using the jQuery an…
Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs
I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…
Building stuff
We have a sort of tradition in my little family. Every Saturday we get up and make breakfast together. Sometimes we make Eggs, Bacon, biscuits and hash browns, other mornings we have waffles or pancakes. It’s always a fun way to start the day together. The next thing we do is something productiv…
Exploring Mobile Web Apps, day 1
Tonight I cracked open jQTouch and started poking around. First let me say that this thing is incredible. It’s really impressive. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s only jQuery and CSS3, but it’s really impressive. From Jonathan Stark’s talk I knew he had a text…
Adding PHP powered color control variables.
I’m not sure if this was a waste of time, but I’m not in love with the colors I’m using on my site. When I built the theme, I kind of knew I’d get tired of the colors, so I made an index at the top showing what colors were used, it looks like this: /* Colors Used:===================…
Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 2
In this tutorial, I cover how to use custom fields to embed an mp3 into your website (without installing a plugin).
Plugin Released: “Category Expander”
Tim and I finished a plugin today. It is the first plugin that we are officially releasing to the public. The plugin title is “Category Expander”. You can see it in action on the sidebar. Through the settings menu in the WordPress dashboard, you can choose which categories you’d l…
WordPress Plugin: Slim Title
By default, if a post is set to visibility: Private, or Password Protected, the word “Private:” or “Protected:” is prepended to the title. With a simple google search I found a code snippet that worked in replacing those words with nothing, or if I so choose, anything I li…
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GeekOutWith.me is a site where I write about adventures in web development. In real life, I'm Joseph Hinson, Christian, Husband, Father and web developer for Out:think Group. To see some of my work, go here.
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