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

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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

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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

Using PHP to Scrape the Report Card from a Code School Profile – Part 2

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Earlier this week, I described how to use PHP to scrape the report card from a Code School profile. Now, it must be displayed. I chose to display mine in the sidebar of my blog. To do this, jQuery and CSS will be your friends. It’s pretty simple, and this isn’t the only way to … Read more