Let’s talk about web hosting, if you have the intent of being a web hosting provider. If you’re ever messing around with VPS hosting plans, or want to create a reseller system without having to pay for the expensive cost of WHM/cPanel for several of your customers, you may be looking for alternatives. For the first time, I’ve found a pretty solid, open source, free alternative called Froxlor. This is a fork of the SysCP control panel project. Among other cPanel knockoffs, nothing comes close to being as reliable and customizable as Froxlor. [...]
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Building a Quick, Searchable FAQ in jQuery
February 22, 2012, Mike McKeeThe other day, I found a quick little trick to create a searchable FAQ in jQuery. You’ll need some HTML and jQuery skills to do this. [...]
Faster 2.0 Beta Has Arrived!
February 13, 2012, Mike McKeeFor you fans of the FasterMVC framework, the beta 2.0 has arrived and is looking rock solid stable, ready for production. I just need some feedback to see if there are any major issues. [...]
Stay Tuned — Changes Coming to FasterMVC Framework
February 8, 2012, Mike McKeeFor those of you who don’t know, the FasterMVC framework for PHP is a slowly maturing, minimalist MVC framework, hosted up on Github for all to use for any purpose necessary. Some major product vendors are even starting to use FasterMVC in their products. One product launched and battle-tested Faster, and that feedback improved the current release that you can download from Github. However, from all this feedback, the following are significant changes that I’m working on and hope to have a new 2.0 release soon… [...]
Detecting Theme Activation in WordPress
January 6, 2012, Mike McKeeUnfortunately WP doesn’t support detecting when a theme is activated or deactivated. So, you have to call these two functions from your functions.php of your theme: [...]
How To Make Chrome Text for Webkit Browsers
January 6, 2012, Mike McKeeSuddenly there’s a way to make chromified text for Webkit-based browsers like Google Chrome and Apple Safari, but without impacting the look on non-Webkit based browsers. The trick is to combine text-shadow (yes, oddly enough!), webkit gradient backgrounds, background clipping to text, and background size. [...]
Interested in Your WordPress Theme Best Practices
January 4, 2012, Mike McKeeWordPress continues to improve and evolve. I’d like to hear your best practices for WordPress theme development, but this kind of bleeds over into plugin development too. Care to share? Here are some of my tips.
On PHP Scalability
December 30, 2011, Mike McKeeSo tonight I had a brief question with Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the PHP language that my livelihood depends upon. He appears to be looking to work somewhere else, and so I posed this to him:
So what are you looking to do now? And have you ever thought of making a PHP compiler or an easy setup PHP web farm?
His response was good, so I wanted to share it with you: [...]
How To Get More Users off of Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser
December 20, 2011, Mike McKee
Many users simply are not technical enough to realize the importance of using a fast, secure, capable browser. They’re stuck on Internet Explorer. However, here’s a campaign you can employ to get users onto a more capable browser — Google Chrome. Users will still use Internet Explorer, but many pages on the web that they visit will be rendered in Google Chrome in a plugin inside of the Internet Explorer web browser. The users won’t complain because they won’t really notice the difference. If we technical web developers band together and do this, the statistics for Internet Explorer will continue to sink, and we’ll force Microsoft to get more serious with their web browser, making it more like Google Chrome. Here are the steps.
Questions To Ask about Your Favorite PHP MVC Framework
December 11, 2011, Mike McKeeThere are a lot of PHP MVC frameworks out there. Some do things similarly. I wanted to pose some questions to you to think about regarding your favorite framework, and to wonder if an implementation of a feature is good or bad. [...]
