By Ammon | Published:
February 25, 2010
When I’m building websites especially, I have to work with a lot of deeply nested files. But typing cd ~/public_html/websitename/wp-content/themes/themename/ in the terminal every time is giving me carpal tunnel, so I found a better way:
First open ~/.barshrc in a text editor and uncomment lines 73 through 75 so they look like this:
if [ [...]
By Ammon | Published:
February 17, 2010
Before you do anything, back up your original config files. I used to just create a copy of the files with the suffix “.bak” (sudo cp example.conf example.conf.bak), which works, but creates a lot of clutter. Now I use a great little utility called etckeeper which automatically places all files in /etc under [...]
By Ammon | Published:
February 11, 2010
The following code, when included in the functions.php file in your Wordpress child theme, will correctly load Mootools and a custom script. This is the only way I am able make custom scripts work, but you hear a lot of stuff out there on the interweb…
<?php
function add_js() {
$stylesheet_dir = get_bloginfo(’stylesheet_directory’);
[...]
By Ammon | Published:
February 1, 2010
I thought I would be a Firefox user till I died, but holy crap Chrome is fast! I can launch Firefox, go make a sandwich, launch Chrome and be browsing before Firefox loads. This is particularly nice on our crappy Windows machines at work. JavaScript is noticeably faster. Chrome seems more stable and [...]