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February 20, 2013

Mid-Season Assessment: NBA Season Still Worth Watching?

I can’t remember an NBA season with so many high profile players landing on the injured list. The most devastating ones to me are the season ending injuries to Boston’s Rondo and Sullinger. As the Celtics are my favorite team to watch (all be it while playing in a very unwatchable way), those injuries were …

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by Peter Knight
  • NBA
  • Personal
February 5, 2013

CSS3 PIE 2 and WordPress integration

A new release of CSS3 Pie has been announced, PIE 2.0 Beta 1. It comes with lots of goodies such as a bit of background size support and rgba support in simple linear gradients and box-shadow rendering. For a more precise break down check out the release post, as not all of the newly supported …

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by Peter Knight
  • CSS
  • Uncategorized
  • WordPress
  • PIE
January 19, 2013

10 Different Solutions To Share Your Local Wamp/Lamp/Xamp/Mamp (WordPress) Sites

If you are developing sites on your own machine, you probably have run into a situation where you wanted to share what you’re working on with another person. Or, you want to test your locally hosted site on another device, say a mobile phone. Most web developers will develop locally because it’s a lot faster …

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by Peter Knight
  • Tools
  • Workspace
January 7, 2013

Woocommerce Tutorial: Better Product Listings For Imageless Products

Recently I’ve been working on my second WooCommerce project and I’ve found it quite a flexible solution so far. Woocommerce pretty much expects products to have images and the templates expect there to be a product image, so when you have a product without an image (because it’s a service and not a physical product …

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by Peter Knight
  • Coding And Design
  • WordPress
  • WooCommerce
January 3, 2013

Why Does Kevin Love Not Improve The Timberwolves Record?

There are few players that can stuff a box score like Kevin Love can. He may go down as the best rebounder in NBA history. He can also shoot threes. Last year he sported a PER of 25.41. A talent like that doesn’t come by often, but why on earth doesn’t his team have a …

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by Peter Knight
  • NBA
  • Personal
December 10, 2012

Short Body Classes For Page Templates [WordPress]

Styling page templates with CSS is made even easier with the body_class() function which appends all kinds of handy classes to the body element. If you want to make the home page have a unique style, you could do things like: .home { background-image: url(awesomebackgroundimage.jpg); } Targeting specific page templates is possible to, but the …

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by Peter Knight
  • Coding And Design
  • WordPress
November 9, 2012

Custom Functions With LESSPHP: Cheat sheet

My favorite feature of the fantastic lessphp library is the ability to easily add in your own custom functions. This makes working with LESS truly flexible as you can add a bunch of features that less doesn’t already have. Imagine having a css preprocessor that will do anything at your whim, well with lessphp you …

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by Peter Knight
  • Coding And Design
  • LESS
  • lessphp
October 28, 2012

Story lines To Watch This NBA 2012-2013 Season + My Predictions

I share what I think are the most intriguing story lines to watch in the NBA this year.

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by Peter Knight
  • NBA
  • Personal
October 25, 2012

How To Show A Sortable Last Modified Column In The Manage Posts Screen [WP]

So you want to quickly find posts that were recently edited? Here’s a quick WordPress guide to adding a sortable column to the post managing screen that displays the last modified date. This example can be easily modified to work with another type of field or a specific post type. Step 1 So to start, …

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by Peter Knight
  • WordPress
October 24, 2012

Transparent PNGs and IE6: Some False Hope

While working on achieving the best possible crossbrowser compatible experience, going as far back as Internet Explorer 6, I was excited to see a site called Tinypng.org. It’s aim is to create a smaller version of your png assets while preserving transparency as it converts the file from 24 bit to 8 bit. It does …

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by Peter Knight
  • Achieving Crossbrowser Compatibility
  • Coding And Design
  • CSS
  • ie6
  • internet explorer
  • png
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