I recently read an article about CodeEval, a free gamified website for ranking developers, and bringing employers and developers together. Essentially, a developer can sign up, complete coding challenges, and earn badges and a “Hacker Ranking” that will compare his or her skills to others who have signed up on the site. Also, completing some … Read more
Since Twitter upgraded the Twitter REST API to version 1.1 earlier this year, a simple HTTP query against the API no longer works. You now have to include authentication information which would require redevelopment of many programs that perform this previously simple action. I wanted to include the number of Twitter followers on this blog … Read more
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved is a great plugin to format source code on a WordPress.org blog. Also, WordPress.org blogs can now allow you to use Infinite Scroll, which uses AJAX to load posts as you scroll down the blog. The problem is that once you begin scrolling past the first block of posts that were initially loaded, … Read more