I have used GoDaddy for hosting this blog for several years now, and I can say that I have not always been happy about it. I have used a free service called Monitor.Us to let me know when the website was down, and until recently, it was down quite a lot more than I thought … Read more
Of all the blogging platforms I’ve tried, WordPress is my favorite. If it is self-hosted, it is easy to customize. One of the pitfalls of customization, however, is how easy it can be for a plugin of dubious quality to wreak havoc on your site. One of the problems I have had is that while … Read more
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