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Auto-activate widgets in WordPress MU August 15, 2009 6 Comments

I was recently involved in a project where it was required that each time you add a new blog on WordPress MU, that it automatically assigns a set of default widgets and activates all the plugins. Finding a plugin that activates all plugins on blog creation was easy, there's one out there called Plugin Commander and it's awesome - you can also mass... Read more »

WordPress 2.8 – Upgrade Gotchas June 18, 2009 3 Comments

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. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade: I found it strange how it didn't tell me that I needed to upgrade to the latest version, instead I got the message from WordPress' built in notification. When I went into this ... Read more »

new Things(array(‘objective-c’, ‘macbook’, ‘slicehost’)); May 12, 2009 3 Comments

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. To be honest, I'm in love with Slicehost. Having my own VPS is like getting my very own pair of underwear, no more sharing with hundreds of ne... Read more »

Redesign & Notepad++ Theme! April 13, 2009 5 Comments

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... Read more »

Outputting an SQL query log March 18, 2009 1 Comment

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... Read more »

Growth of Javascript frameworks March 5, 2009 0 Comments

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 happeni... Read more »

Oldies but goodies February 3, 2009 0 Comments

I was rummaging through some old hard drives and websites yesterday and found quite a gem. It's a slideshow of our band playing one of our first gigs. View the slideshow here The first set of 2005 was a show put on by Campbell Collegiate high school and contained a few other bands. The second set of 2005 was a when we played our dem... Read more »

Optimizing is always good January 24, 2009 0 Comments

I had some time today to re-visit some of the javascript on TaxiMe. I know it uses a lot of it. So here are some key things I've done to help bring down the load time: Use a javascript minifier: Since I load in about 4 javascript files I figured i should probably serve them up as small as possible. I went out digging and found a PHP javascrip... Read more »

TaxiMe goes mobile! January 19, 2009 2 Comments

This weekend I had spent a lot of time on TaxiMe and am proud to say, we support all mobiles! If you go to http://www.taxime.ca/ on your mobile you will be redirected to http://m.taxime.ca/. I have also added a subdomain for each city TaxiMe supports - this has helped tremendously in appearing near the top in Google. Anyways, I've already repe... Read more »

TaxiMe gets a Christmas present from CBC Regina December 29, 2008 1 Comment

I just got back from Christmas holidays in Regina when my cell phone rang - it was CBC Regina wanting to talk about TaxiMe! With it being live and all, I had some goosebumps accompanied by some dry mouth while I was talking on the phone. I went to their website to get the audio file and much to my disgust it was in a .ram file format. I spent... Read more »

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Hi interwebs! My name is Jordan Boesch and I like to dabble in various web technologies. My dabbling time usually consists of jQuery, WordPress and baking with CakePHP.