WordPress Meetup Tokyo -- WordPress Server Optimization
I recently gave a quick talk about how I use Nginx, HHVM, MariaDB with WordPress on this blog at the March WordPress Meetup in Tokyo. Here are the slides: I've published a Vagra...
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SSL and SPDY
In my quest for faster response times and page load speed, I've been playing around with Google's SPDY. I finally got around to getting a SSL certificate for this website and in...
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WordPress on Nginx, HHVM, and MariaDB
Update 2014/4/24 : I've updated the template to work with the latest HHVM 3.0+, and also squished some bugs. I've been talking quite a bit about WordPress on HHVM recently, and...
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HHVM and WordPress
Update 2014/4/17 : This site now runs WordPress 3.9, which seems to be working fine with HHVM. Also, compatibility has improved, thanks to a patch in the WordPress core specific...
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Japanese Input in Sublime Text
I really like Sublime Text. Today, I like it even more. Thanks to a blog post by Uesugi Shu, this long-open bug regarding Japanese character input has a viable workaround! The l...
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Moved... Again!
So, I'm making some changes to this blog. I'll start with the first, which is most obvious. I've decided to change the theme I've been using for 2 years to Expound by Konstantin...
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wp_enqueue your scripts and styles.
The ease of making a WordPress theme is both a blessing and a curse. It allows people to get started with programming relatively easy -- most hosting providers have PHP / MySQL,...
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Ruby 2.1.0-preview2
Ruby 2.1 is coming soon! Personally, I've noticed quite a few speedups, and it seems like they've fixed a large memory problem I was running in to on pre-release staging environ...
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Git and Local / Server Hooks
I have been a proponent of pre-commit hooks for a very long time. After doing some searching, I found this lovely gem. It consists of a bunch of checks before you commit your co...
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Turbolinks and WordPress
Rails Turbolinks is pretty cool, right? I thought it would be pretty cool to use it on WordPress, too. There are probably a lot of bugs, and it probably doesn't work well with J...
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WordPress 3.7: Automatic Updates
WordPress 3.7 was just released. Although there are quite a few features in this release, I want to talk about what I feel is the most important feature: automatic updates . It'...
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Vagrant, WordPress, and Theme Development
I've been playing around with Vagrant recently. It really is a great tool for setting up development environments quickly and cleanly - no more local MySQL databases with 100 se...
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Snoopy
Snoopy Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages. It's intended for use on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari on the iPad) where you can't view-source to poke around...
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Convert old-style Ruby hashes to new-style.
Search: Replace:
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Marshal.dump and load with ActiveRecord
If you aren't familiar with Marshal.dump and Marshal.load , you probably should be. It's used to serialize Ruby objects into binary data - mostly caching. Now, if you're trying...
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Rails Security 101
I've come across too many Rails apps with the secret token in version control. Don't do that.
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Moved!
Just writing to let you know that I've switched servers for this blog! I've been meaning to get this on to a faster server that I have control over for awhile, and I finally got...
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Making a (proper) WordPress Theme
One of the things that I've built regularly are custom WordPress themes for clients. Let me clarify -- a custom theme for each client. One theme per client. So, I decided to try...
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Facebook: Pop-in.
What do you do when you have a Facebook app tab (inside an iframe , mind you) that's externally linkable? Pop-in. Let's break this down. This conditional will be true when the b...
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S3 Uploader
There have been more than a few times where someone needs to send a big file to me. So, I made a quick and dirty tool to allow anyone to upload files directly to a S3 bucket. No...