Wordpress plugin: excerpts deluxe

Today I’ve written a small plugin that displays excerpts in Wordpress with style. Download it here.
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Capistrano now supports staging

Grrrrrreat news: Capistrano now supports multiple stages. Will use that for sure!

Pagination in Rails

We all know pagination is going out of Rails core pretty soon. If you’re still using the built-in paginator classes, stop doing that! Seriously. They’re supposed to be baaaad for ya, or so I have heard.
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Rails migrations: no find or create for you

I got bitten by this bug today. Migrations in Rails are sold to us developers as the bee’s knees. Truthfully they are a godsend. But sometimes stuff just does not work.
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How to fix is_home() in Wordpress 2.1+

Wordpress introduced a great feature in version 2.1: a static home page. Twas the feature that made WP a viable CMS. But unfortunately it broke the internal is_home() function. Here’s how to patch that.
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MacBook blinding screen of death fix

Ever used Fast User Switch on a MacBook and were greeted with an ugly bright / washed out and barely usable display? Here is the fix. Works!

Cool tools

For web developers, there are so many cool tools right now it’s not even funny. Here are just a few.
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Custom wordpress title

Today I released my first public Wordpress plugin: Custom Title. Just a tiny plugin that allows you to change the html title of any Wordpress page.
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Rails

This post is here to test my new plugin.

The plugin displays a list of pages in the same category as the current slug.

If a list is displayed under this post, it appears to work quite nicely!

Microsoft hates unit tests

Microsoft does not want a third-party unit testing framework in Visual Studio Express. Their reasoning? “It’s too complex for the typical VSE user.”
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