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I promised (in the Tree Link project) to post the “Trees For The Future” certificate when it arrives, so here it is

On an unrelated note, I’m having trouble with my wisdom tooth. Posting frequency will be diminished for a while.

[Here's some list-cliche-filler stuff while I fight off a (hopefully) temporary bout of unproductivity and dentists]

WordPress internals are documented pretty well, but sometimes finding the right API/Codex page can take a while. That’s why I’ve decided to put together a comprehensive list of all APIs used by WordPress to [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve always cared about WordPress performance. I’ve optimized my database, tweaked the server’s configuration, used plugin profilers and installed WP Super Cache and PHP Speedy WP – the “heavy artillery” of performance-related plugins. However, only recently did I decide to finally track down and fix all the remaining subtle [...] Continue Reading…

In this post I’ll discuss some of the failings of existing RSS readers and suggest a few wistful and highly hypothetical improvements. The genre is moderate technobabble, the layot – web2.0 bulletpoint-y. A lot is left to your imagination to allow for personal interpretation (and other things that rhyme [...] Continue Reading…

If you’ve ever tried to write a program that fetches search results from Google, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the excrutiating annoyances of parsing the results and getting blocked periodically. Run a couple hundred queries in a row and bam! – your script is banned until proven innocent [...] Continue Reading…