WordCamp PDX ‘09 Day 1 – What I came away with

I just attended WordCamp Portland ‘09 Day 1 (Sat, Sept. 19 2009) an this is what I came away with…

Session: Jason Grigsby – Speed Up Wordpress. Make Readers Happy and Your Site Green

Setting expires headers really does matter in the battle for page loading speed/efficiency.
SpriteMe makes CSS sprite implementation so easy there’s little excuse not [...]

Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert

So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload market  by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…

Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit

So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.

Warning: FileZilla FTP Passwords now Stored in Plaintext

I feel that this should be brought to the attention of FileZilla users out there even though it may be a huge concern. (Lots of apps do this but potentially giving up FTP access info to a bunch of servers you are responsible for is something to be avoided). Jump to the Important Stuff

Echo PHP Nested Array Contents + Keys

I’ve always had some trouble with the syntax for accessing Nested Arrays and their Keys in PHP so I wanted to make note of this.

MySQL: Convert all Values in Column to Upper Case

Recently using osCommerce I had a customer who wished to have all the products’ names in uppercase but they had been entered in mixed case. After having some trouble finding a simple answer through Google, I pieced together this simple query that can also be adapted to other situations.

The below is a MySQL query to [...]