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First Impression of Windows 8 (Developer Preview)

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Jonathan Sampson

I downloaded the developer preview of Windows 8 a few weeks ago so that I could begin playing with Internet Explorer 10. After setting up a new partition and loading the OS into a dual-boot environment, I was quickly up … Continue reading →

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Sometimes jQuery is (not) the Answer

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

It’s difficult to say, as much as I love jQuery I must admit that it is at times the wrong route to take when addressing a problem. While looking over a few questions on StackOverflow today I came across a … Continue reading →

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Unexpected Results While Styling WordPress Menus

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Today I sat down to convert a static theme consisting of nothing more than HTML and CSS into a WordPress theme, complete with calls to functions like wp_nav_menu() for the construction of the menu’s. For this particular theme I began … Continue reading →

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Using Views in Kohana 3

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

What is a View? If you’ve never worked with Kohana Views in the past, they’re not hard to understand. Controllers handle most of your logic, Models handle the database communication, and Views handle the presentation of the data (generally-speaking). In … Continue reading →

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Quickly Adding Thumbnails to WordPress Archives

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Post thumbnails make archives look much more attractive in my personal opinion, yet they are not natively displayed in the otherwise-beautiful theme shipped with the latest version of WordPress, Twenty Ten. As is the case with most WordPress stuff, this … Continue reading →

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Install and Setup of Kohana 3, The

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jonathan Sampson

Kohana is the wildly popular PHP Framework used by many developers all over. I’ve used it numerous times in the past on some rather different projects and found it to be pretty versatile and reliable over-all. One of my largest … Continue reading →

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