Using CSS to Create Resizable Columns in WordPress with Thesis Theme…Part Deux!

CSS variable declaration and use

About three years ago, I wrote a post about dynamically resizing the content column in WordPress.org when using the Thesis theme. The method described in that post worked fine until Thesis 2.4 was released last August. At that time, I noticed that my columns were no longer the full width of the window, and did … Read more

End of Another Year! … and a Minor Update to the Code School Profile Scraper

CodeSchool logo

It’s hard to believe 2016 is already drawing to a close. It seems like just yesterday that I was writing about using PHP to search through my source code! Though I wouldn’t call this an intractable problem, I did notice something annoying when looking at my Code School profile on the sidebar of this site. … Read more

Learning Enough to be Dangerous – Go From Being a Novice to an Advanced Developer

current courses at Learn Enough to be Dangerous

While I think the venerable Ruby on Rails Tutorial is still the best way to learn Rails, jumping into this tutorial can be challenging for those who are new to programming. With the fourth and latest beta of Rails 5 being released this past week, it is appropriate that Michael Hartl, the creator of the … Read more