Pinterest-like Interface to eBay

PhoneGap is a great framework for building native iOS, Android, etc apps with just HTML, CSS & JS. However, there is a slight misconfiguration in the way PhoneGap sets up new Xcode projects, and this will not allow 3rd party analytic packages to work correctly. Services such as Flurry and Tapjoy require you to add…

In the past couple of days, many client sites have gotten notices from Google Webmaster Tools about being unable to access CSS and JS files. The most widespread issue was blocking of wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin in the robots.txt file. Googlebot is now smart enough to not crawl these items by default, so they can…

Alex Chan wrote a 1000 word blog post about a 35 line python script to archive his Pinboard bookmarks. Here’s what I’ve been using since I’ve started using Pinboard, which is close to Alex’s solution but only one line: curl https://ME:[email protected]/v1/posts/all?format=json -o ~/Dropbox/pinboard-backups/pinboard-`date +%y%m%d`.json This does not create separate yearly folders for the backups, and the output…

If you have a custom menu on your WordPress site, and you’ve found that after adding so many items, saving the menu will remove the last few items from the list. This will generally happen if you have many sub menu items. The main culprit is the “max_input_vars” PHP setting. By default this is set…