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So Today I encountered a weird bug in MAMP PRO 2.0.1:

After doing a restart of MAMP PRO, MySQL was loading, but didn’t load. None of the settings were accessible, even after I killed everything and restarted it. This happens when you add a new “host”, and don’t specify the file-path (“Disc Location”). To get out of the loop here is what you have to do:

1. Start MAMP PRO
2. Open Terminal
3. Enter: /Applications/MAMP/bin/stop.sh

Whola! 

I’ve been working on the next step and bugfixes (yes, I found them) while working on the additional screencasts for Blankwork, and I’ve accidentally moved Blankwork to version 1.1

I really hope I will be able to publish it soon. Until then, – I’ve made the first (out of 3) screencast on Blankwork. This one is a “teaster trailer” kind of a video. I’m not doing much of explaining here, I’m rather just doing a quick show&tell how blankwork works.

Any feedback is very welcome on the video, so tell me if you have any thoughts about it .

I have had a repeated need for this.

Baiscally what it does it turns:

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<option value="99">Awesome Number</option>
3
<option value="100">Top Number</option>
4

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Awesome Number is 99
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Top Number is 100
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Sometimes useful, decided to save & share

Search:

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/<[^"]*value="([^"]+)">([^<]+)/

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A while back I heard Douglas Kirkland say “The best camera to use ? The one that you have with you.”, and that phrase has haunted me ever since. Even though I’ve wanted to have a DSLR for a long time now, and still haven’t managed to buy one, today I decided that it was time I got a camera. A camera that I can have, and have with me. And I think it is a good starting point at the moment. Read more…

A regex pattern to fix 1st level domains. Useful for when data is submitted from users:

Turns this:

google.com
www.google.com
google.com/
http://google.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com/

Into This:

http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.google.com

Expression:

Search: 
((http:\/\/)?(www\.)?([\w\d-]*?\.)(\w{2,4})/?)
Replace:
http://www.$4$5

	# Fix the URL:
	$fixedURL = preg_replace('/((http:\/\/)?(www\.)?([\w\d-]*?\.)(\w{2,4})/?)/i', 'http://www.$4$5', $previousURL);

Just in case someone needs this some day.

Usage: [0] => Region Title, [1] => Min ZIP Number, [2] => Max ZIP Number

$denmark = array(
array('København', 1000, 1799),
array('Frederiksberg', 1800, 2999),
array('Nordsjælland', 3000, 3699),
array('Bornholm', 3700, 3799),
array('Færøerne', 3800, 3899),
array('Grønland', 3900, 3999),
array('Øvrige Sjælland', 4000, 4999),
array('Fyn', 5000, 5999),
array('Sønderjylland', 6000, 6999),
array('Vestjylland', 7000, 7999),
array('Østjylland og Midtjylland', 8000, 8999),
array('Nordjylland', 9000, 9999)
);

Now this took about a half an hour until I figured this out. Posting this, just in case someone finds it – I hope I save you 30 minutes.
I fetched a link from HTML content with preg_match(), and I had to replace some data in that link.

str_replace("upgrade-plugin&plugin",'update-selected&plugins', $updateItem);

str_replace("upgrade-plugin&plugin",'update-selected&plugins', $updateItem);

html_entity_decode()

The new WordPress Custom Post types are awesome, and if you do want to categorize them differently, you can even add your own Taxonomies for them (like categories, tags, and even introduce your own names, like “colors”, “style”, etc. etc.). All seem unlimited, but I found myself struggling finding a way to reasonably display them afterwards.
Hope this function helps, if you ever find yourself in my position

function get_taxonomy_display($taxonomy_name) {
return strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $wp_query->post->ID, '$taxonomy_name', '', ', ', '' ) );
}
$custom_categories = get_taxonomy_display('enter_your_taxonomy_name');
echo $custom_categories

CSS Pseudo Classes are just plain awesome.

Unfortenatley Internet Explorer 6 and 7 doesn’t support them. I am very thankful that I found a Javascript Fix for that, so I wanted to share.

This little awesome JavaScript not only fixes that, but a whole bunch of unsupported things in IE.

[info]List of fixes: http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/test/index.html [/info]

[download]http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/[/download]

While creating my Blankwork I was looking for different examples of archives pages, since I never used them much. In the end, I was pretty disapointed with all of them.

For example, an else if statement list with opening PHP tags every time, repeating same text and adding comments in between. In my code editor it looked like one big rainbow. An example (which is short and a bit more readable):

<?php /* If this is a category */ if (is_category()) { ?>
 <h2>Archive for category &#8216;<?php single_cat_title(); ?>&#8217; Category</h2>

 <?php /* If this is a tag */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
 <h2>Archive for tag &#8216;<?php single_tag_title(); ?>&#8217;</h2>

I like when everything is clear and easy readable even in code. of course you can dig-through anything, but I made this little snippet just for those, who want a little more clean archives code.

So, I made my own little snippet, which is a bit more Designer friendly, here you go:

<?php if (have_posts()):the_post() ?>

 <?php
 // Switch Archive Names
 // If a category, set Category title
 if(is_category()):
 $return = single_term_title("", false)." Category";

 elseif (is_tag()):
 $return = single_term_title("", false)." Tag";

 elseif (is_day()):
 $return = the_time('F jS, Y');

 elseif (is_month()):
 $return = the_time('F, Y');

 elseif (is_year()):
 $return = the_time('Y');

 elseif (is_author()):
 $return = "Author: ".get_the_author();

 else:
 $return = "s";

 endif;
 rewind_posts();

 // If there is something to return, add a "for" before
 // For example "Blog Category " to "for Blog Category"
 // When Return is displayed, it should look like:
 // "Archive for Blog Category"
 // -or-
 // "Archive for Author: admin
 if($return != NULL) $return = " for ".$return;
 ?>
 <h2>Archive<?php echo $return ?></h2>

When I first started theming WordPress, most difficult thing for me to do was to find something that I could base my work on. I didn’t exactly start everything from scratch. Well – in the end I had to, because I couldn’t find any blank frameworks for WordPress.
While I did find about 10 stripped down templates – most of them didn’t suit my needs. I wanted a simple tiny framework to base my own code on, not tons of code that I have to dig through and then try to fit my work in.
So – I am working on The BlankWork, which is going to offer a basic (tiny tiny) framework to start your theme on. Currently I’m thinking of making the BlankWork in some ways like Initializr, so when downloading you would get some options (whether you want reset css or not, or maybe you want some predefined css styles, or maybe you want threaded comments, etc. ). This is definitely going to be open-source and I hope that with time I will succeed finding some contributors to the development and updating the theme as well.
I am so sure of this, that I already bought the domain – blankwork.net, I can’t wait, I can’t wait.

Changelog:
- Changed the order in what script executes. Now changes to styles are instant and working in Chrome, FireFox and IE7+
- Changed the location of switch page, Go to http://www.themer.me/css-switch-script , look for future updates there!

Download Script Here