I’ve recently had to upgrade several blogs from WordPress 2.7 to 2.8. Here are some plugins that caused me to rip chunks of my hair out.

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A lot of change has happened in these past few weeks: I moved in with my girlie friend, bought a new MacBook, started learning Objective-C for building iPhone apps and moved from Dreamhost to Slicehost.

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I figured it was time for a “fresh” and swurvy new look. I spent a lot of time making sure things were pixel perfect before I launched this - so if you find anything that looks a pixel off, please, send me hate mail.

On a related note, if you liked my syntax colors used in my code blocks and you use Notepad++ then you should check out the theme I did! Installation instructions are in the zip file.

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Outputting SQL information is incredibly valuable when you’re trying to debug your app. If you’ve ever used CakePHP then you’ve seen the query output appear at the bottom of your page.

I’ve whipped up a little class that allows you to:

• See the query outputted as a string
• See what file the query was called from
• See what line the query was called on
• How long it took to run that query
• The total time to run all the queries on your page

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With the growing adoption rate of Javascript frameworks such as jQuery and Prototype, some people wonder “Do I need to learn POJ (Plain Old Javascript) before I learn a framework?”.

If the question is “Do I need to?” the answer is no. If the question is “Should I?” I would say yes, if you’ve got the time and are ambitious to know what’s happening behind the scenes, jump in and do so. I don’t think learning a framework is an excuse for not learning Javascript, I think most people who use a framework have at the very least, a basic understanding of how Javascript works. If you know basic Javascript, got hooked on jQuery and are now a jQuery Sensai, I would say it’s time to download a copy of jQuery uncompressed and really figure out what’s happening when you call your favorite jQuery methods.

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