In this tutorial, I will show you the basics of creating a simple Wordpress plugin. After completing it, you will have the knowledge to expand upon it and create your own Wordpress plugins.

For all you Vi using, Emacs haters out there, I will fight you!

I was just reading this article posted on CNET news Apple’s tablet: It’s all about developers and thought to myself, it’s a great day to be a software developer.  This quote from the article got me exceptionally excited.

“Never have developers mattered more. As Apple readies its tablet announcement party for later Wednesday morning, the big question remaining is whether developers will join, or whether they’ll join Google’s Android and Chrome initiatives.”

With the success of the Apple App Store, it seems that everyone is wanting  a piece of the pie.

Amazon is now looking to throw their hat into the ring and is releasing their own dev kit for their ever so popular Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=1000476231

It appears that big name game developers Electronic Arts is also getting involved (WTH?!?!)

This just seems like it will be an epic fail.  Who really wants to play video games on their Kindle?  Maybe they can port Kirby’s Dreamland from the original Game Boy .

Watching this video makes me appreciate the fact that I work from home.

When in XCode on a MacBook Pro, doing a 3-finger swipe up will switch between the .h and .m files.

⌘-option-up will do the same thing

Productivity++

Ok, so this should seem obvious and if I am insulting your intelligence by stating it, I am sorry. One of the main reasons I want to discuss this is, I was asked this exact question in a job interview for Lockheed Martin.

So, I though I’d start this series called Programming Tip Of The Day to write about useful things I come across in programming. Both to educate my readers and as a personal archive of ideas and tips.

I will kick it off today with a quick rant about the ternary operator. I <3 the ternary operator. It’s quick, efficient and saves a lot of ugly code.

While mashing the keyboard (as I often do when debuggin poorly written outsourced code), I stumbled upon a very useful OSX hotkey.

⌘-option-d

This command will cause the Dock to go in and out of auto-hide mode.

Not the most useful, but very helpful to geeks like me who rearrange their desktop every day.

TwitPop is a Wordpress plugin I wrote with one goal…To make you more popular on Twitter. There are sites that spring up from time to time claiming to get you more followers on Twitter if you follow X amount of people on the follow train. Well, now you can create your own Twitter train on your wordpress blog and really get more followers.