‘No IE’ WordPress plugin released
Written on October 10, 2009 at 3:14 pm, by Lupo
Today my first WordPress plugin was published at the official WordPress plugin site and it is now available for download. This plugin simply replaces your site’s contents with a message asking visitors to use a better browser if they use Internet Explorer 7 or earlier.
Every web designer knows how annoying it is to deal with internet explorer issues, and how the use of Microsoft’s browsers hinders innovation. But not just that, offering support for IE6 and IE7 normally means a lot of unnecessary extra work and holding back from modern design techniques and technologies (CSS3, png transparency, round corners, HTML5, …).
Programming language popularity
Written on October 3, 2009 at 1:50 pm, by Lupo
As a PHP enthusiast I was very pleased a couple of weeks ago when I read that PHP is already in the top 3 in programming language popularity only after Java and C. This popularity index is based on the number of professional programmers, training courses and vendors.
Source: TIOBE Software – http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Setting up a web server with Apache 2.2.x and PHP 5.2.x with extensions, PEAR, MySQL 5.x and pdo_mysql on FreeBSD 7 step by step tutorial
Written on September 13, 2009 at 9:58 pm, by Lupo
This quick tutorial will show you how to set up a FreeBSD machine (based on minimal install) to run as a web server using Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. This tutorial is based on FreeBSD 7.2 (the current stable release at the time of this writing).
This tutorial builds on the minimal installation described here and assumes you have also downloaded the ports collection. If you haven’t done so please read the following article first: Managing ports in FreeBSD.
Fetching tweets with jQuery and the Twitter JSON API
Written on September 3, 2009 at 11:17 pm, by Lupo
Just thought it’d be nice to share this little script that fetches tweets using a jQuery AJAX request and the Twitter API. The script is based on a snippet I picked up from my good friend Sven Lito.
I’ve added verbose comments in the code itself, so let’s keep this post short 
You can see the working demo here: http://www.lupomontero.com/tuts/jQuery-TwitterAPI/index.html
