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Microsoft, when they rolled out Windows 11, made some changes to their File Explorer that slowed me down as a developer. I needed to restore the Windows 10 behavior. The Windows 11 task bar always combines icons from multiple instances of the same app into one. To find the instance you want you have to … Read more
These are my rough notes on the steps needed to set up a VM to do WordPress development with PhpStorm. Create the VM Download the Ubuntu .iso file and create a VM using your virtualization program. Give the VM at least 6GiB of RAM and two processors to work with. For best results give it … Read more
This is the data definition language used by the Index MySQL For Speed plugin to add and remove high-performance keys. This is the code used for older versions of MariaDB and MySQL, the ones supporting the Antelope version of the InnoDB storage engine. Notice that each table gets just one ALTER TABLE statement. This allows … Read more
This is the data definition language used by the Index MySQL For Speed plugin to add and remove high-performance keys. This is the code used for recent versions of MariaDB and MySQL, the ones supporting the Barracuda version of the InnoDB storage engine. Notice that each table gets just one ALTER TABLE statement. This allows … Read more
Problem: How do I get the UNIX timestamp for midnight local time in php? Why would I want this? To schedule a daily processing event at 00:05 every day, we might use This is handy for running various overnight work at a particular time of day in local time. What does “local time” mean in … Read more
The unity of NATO, and the effectiveness of the world-wide new attitude towards BS on the intertoobz, owe a lot to something really radical pulled off by the foreign policy dream team Biden put together: Ambassador William Burns, now director of the CIA. Anthony Blinken Secretary of State Avril Haines Director of National Intelligence. They … Read more
Have you ever written any WordPress code that needed to register a lot of hooks — a lot of actions and filters? Have you ever forgotten to put the right number of $expectedArgs into the call to add_action() or add_filter()? Worse, have you ever forgotten your call to one of those? No more! This article … Read more
This, a work-in-progress, is a list of good tools for WordPress developers. Plugins Query Monitor by John Blackbourn. Monitors pretty much everything that happens on WordPress page views, not just queries. WP Rollback by GiveWP.com. Reinstalls previous versions of themes or plugins. Demo Press by Milan Petrovic. Generates fake content and can create many posts, … Read more
Well, holy cow. Now two different antivirus packages include code to use their hosts’ idle cycles to mine cryptocurrency. Users must opt in to both. But still, if computers were horses we’d say they had parasites and treat them with horse paste (aka Invermectin) to get rid of them. These antivirus packages give our computers … Read more
When developing WordPress plugin for distribution on the wordpress.org directory, we need some tools to automate the release process. It’s convenient to use github (or another source-code control vendor) to hold the day-to-day development source code. And, when we’re ready to release the plugin to the WordPress repository, we need to use WordPress’s Subversion (svn) … Read more