Trey Connell

I wanted to implement a simple captcha for for article comments on a site. And by simple, I mean both in aesthetics and in functionality. After looking around, I found this post that described how you could implement a plugin called Simple Captcha in 10...

I purchased the annual subscription to peepcode.com which gives me access to all screencasts and PDF eBooks they offer for one year. If they add new material after I purchased, I still get access to it - as long as my 1-year subscription hasn't expired....

As creative and talented people, web designers and developers sometimes get into a funk - usually called "burn out". I believe much of that funk can be attributed to their ever-dwindling patience with the very people they are there to serve - the...

We use Java as the foundation for our product framework at work. While we've always been pleased with Java compared to the P's in LAMP (PHP and Perl), I've often wondered, "Is there an easier way? Do we really need all these pieces and parts that make up...

I had been rocking along with an older version of Wordpress for about 2 months now - 2.7.1 to be exact. I was hesitant to upgrade to the latest release which as of this time is 2.8.3. I knew that several plugins would be broken if I attempted to upgrade...

I'm working on a project in Wordpress for a customer who wants to have 3 images associated with each post. One of the three images will display depending on the position of the post on the home page. The typical solution is to use custom fields but that...

Sometimes you want to automatically insert copy into the body of your Wordpress post without having to manually paste it in every time. I ran across this handy function from wprecipes.com that does just that: Edit your theme and paste the following...

Web developers and designers all know what a PITA it is to test their work across multiple browsers. At the very least, you're typically dealing with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (and soon IE 8 is coming out), Firefox 2 and 3 (on both Mac and PC), and...

TextMate is a very popular text editor with a lot of features and "bundles" (think "plugins") that runs on Mac OS X. TextMate contains an often overlooked feature for creating nice html versions of your code for display on your site. In order to do this,...

I recently needed to write a quick and dirty script in Ruby to generate 301 redirect lines in an .htaccess file for this site.  The reason being I changed my permalink structure (ack!) and needed to clean up all the 404's showing in Google's Webmaster...

My movie site is coming along well so far. We've made lots of progess on all the core functionality you would expect to see: Movie information Reading movie reviews Creating movie reviews Seeing new members and their activity Rating...

Bookmarking and sharing to social media sites has become a content management standard nowadays. Each story you post should allow your users to email it to their friends or post it to such sites as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, del.icio.us, reddit, digg...