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
In the About.Me widget that I currently have on the right sidebar of this blog, there are quite a few HTML image tags used for the different social networks linked below the photo and bio. None of these img tags had alt tags, which are used by Web crawlers when indexing websites. Many SEO experts … Read more