If the leadership of a company does not follow these principles, then what is outlined here will be less effective. You must first get management buy-in, acceptance and participation. If they do not care, neither will anybody else
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JSON Feed Engine
Posted on October 7, 2009 at 8:07 pm / By Ian / In JSON
Tags: engine, feed, JSON, rss
In researching JSON I have been able to develop a simple JSON RSS Feed engine for use by anyone who needs it. With this you can generate a JSON object for use in your JavaScript. What this will allow you to do is parse any feed from any site without the use of AJAX.
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JSON, the Healthy Alternative to AJAX
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 7:47 pm / By Ian / In AJAX, JSON
Tags: AJAX, cross-domain, Javascript, JSON, remote, requests
I’ve discussed a number of topics about AJAX and the advantages and disadvantages of using it. On one post in particular about cross-domain AJAX requests I discussed various workarounds on how to make AJAX calls that are capable of pulling content from another domain. If you’re familiar with this then you know that most modern browsers don’t allow you to [easily] do this. Without some kind of work-around like an htaccess force proxy or PHP proxy it isn’t possible. Every solution I have seen is simply a work-around which is just another way of saying that you’re not really supposed to be doing it. In my research I have come across JSON,which seems to be the healthy alternative to AJAX in that it utilizes existing technology and permissions to allow you to accomplish the same result without having to jump through flaming hoops to make it work.
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WordPress Subscribers Plugin Preview
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 10:30 am / By Ian / In General
Tags: cms, content, management, plugin, subscribe, subscriber, wordpress
In the works now is a brand new plugin for WordPress which will allow visitors to sign up by adding their name and email to a list. Subscribers will then be able to select from a list of predefined interests. Based on these interests, writers and developers can show and hide certain pages, posts and/or categories based on a particular subscribers set of interests which can be very useful for modeling your WordPress content around user interests. Among a ton of other features, the plugin will be able to fully integrate into any theme using a full set of documented functions designed to make it as easy as possible for the developer.
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WordPress Reusables Plugin
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 9:06 pm / By Ian / In PHP, Solutions
Tags: area, content, PHP, plugin, reusables, wordpress
A pretty common feature among content management systems is the ability to pull pieces of content onto a page which have been pre-defined within the database. However, with WordPress you are unable to do this on the page/post level. Only in theme creation are you able to dynamically pull content from other files. This can be extremely useful for content that gets used throughout a site, as it can be very cumbersome trying to update something like a headline that is hard coded onto multiple pages. However, with this plugin you are able to create a reusable for these types of content and manage them in one place rather than editing each post/page that the content is on.
