November 28th 2011
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Getting the Custom Sidebars plugin working for WordPress

The WordPress plugin Custom Sidebars is a valuable and powerful plugin and can help site owners and editors create custom experiences across their websites. Myself and others I work with were confused by the UI of the admin area of the Custom Sidebars plugin and its convoluted setup workflow so ...

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July 11th 2012
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How to compare two remote branches using git

I can't believe it took me so long to find the answer to this question. Hopefully this will help others out. git diff --name-only origin/release-candidate origin/master Before I deploy my newest code to production I want to double check that the files that I think I'm pushing out are the ones I'm ...
April 26th 2012
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Valid Scrabble and Words With Friends words that are also first names

This is a list of first names that also have a meanings as regular words. It began as an amalgamation of two separate lists I found at Knowgramming and wiki.answers.com and has grown over the last year as I came across new ones. Feel free to add to the list ...
January 24th 2012
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Feedback for the Nest Learning Thermostat

I got a Nest thermostat and have been very happy with it. They emailed me recently to take a customer survey so I'm sharing my comments here, too. I was stumped trying to set the Away state from my iPhone app to the point where I just adjusted the temperature down ...
November 28th 2011
Tags: WordPress

Getting the Custom Sidebars plugin working for WordPress

The WordPress plugin Custom Sidebars is a valuable and powerful plugin and can help site owners and editors create custom experiences across their websites. Myself and others I work with were confused by the UI of the admin area of the Custom Sidebars plugin and its convoluted setup workflow so ...
August 1st 2008
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Ruby on Rails for Mac OS 10.4.7 Tiger

I bought a couple of Ruby on Rails books hoping to learn my way around the development platform but have been pretty confused with getting the environment set up. I get by so much on pages like this when I'm troubleshooting I figured I'd put this up to help anyone ...

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