Since Amazon S3 supports CORS, you can make AJAX calls to a bucket from any domain. This example loads an alert message and conditionally updates the DOM, but the configuration is the same for any GET request (I haven’t played … Continue reading
As of v.2.0-RC1, Genesis Framework child themes search for a favicon in the child theme images folder and fall back to the Genesis favicon if none is present. I’m working on a theme that calls a multi-resolution favicon from a … Continue reading
I won third place at the Northern Virginia National Day of Civic Hacking, held over the past two days at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, for an automated data cleansing pipeline to address the Institute of Museum and Library Services … Continue reading
I’ve released the source of my Imgur random image redirector under the GPLv2. I wrote it for a friend who wanted to show random images in forum signatures, where only a URL is allowed (no JS or PHP). It can … Continue reading
MySQL connection parameters belong in environment variables, not source code. On Amazon Linux (CentOS), the apache user has no home directory, so there’s no .profile to set them. Workaround: use Apache environment variables. Step 1: create /etc/httpd/conf.d/wp_mysql.conf and set the … Continue reading