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eval() error check
We all know how dangerous eval() is in terms of security, but still it is the necessary evil sometimes. I’ve been developing a script last week that required eval() execution. I did pretty granular input validation with regular expressions and known troubleish test cases. Still, some expressions passed to the eval() function were prone to…
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Recommended WP hostings – Podcast
Recently I found a research on WP hosting providers by WPShout – http://wpshout.com/wordpress-hosting-review/ . It is a pretty good review and I have used servers from most of the hosting providers listed there so I decided that this could be my next podcast. In this review I’m going through the list from the site summarizing what is…
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The Business-IT Industry Relationship
The WordPress platform allows for a number of users to build business ideas over a number of options. Browsing online or offline (at a WordCamp or a regular WordPress meetup event) we could get in touch with WP developers, designers, writers, system administrators, support engineers and other technical. On the other hand, small teams are…
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Xdebug for Fedora with PHP 5.3
In February I wrote a guide on setting up Xdebug for Eclipse usage under Ubuntu. Using a neat debugger while exploring an existing WordPress project is a must and among the two possibilities (the Zend one or Xdebug) I use Xdebug. However, setting it up on my ThinkPad took a bit more time due to…
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Quick tip: get_terms with all terms
The get_terms WordPress function is listing all your terms for a given taxonomy (or taxonomies). However, the default callback returns only the terms with entries. Therefore your empty terms won’t be visible unless you use the hide_empty parameter with a false value, like this: [php] $product_terms = get_terms( ‘product’, array( ‘hide_empty’ => false ) );…
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Prodcast.fm – A New Productivity Podcast
My friend Slobodan has just started his new podcast – ProdcastFM. The podcast would be focused on productivity and efficiency, which happens to be an important topic for a lot of people in the WordPress community – freelancers, consultants, clients, employers. To stay “on-topic”, after all, I’ll also share few of my productivity tips: We…
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Sass in 5 – slides from OpenFest 2012
I had a lightning talk about Sass over the weekend at the largest open source conference on the Balkans – OpenFest. We’ve been using it in the past few projects and the improvement in the CSS code design is remarkable. Sass in 5 from Mario Peshev Sass is pretty handy when comes to a CSS file…