Accessibility Wins
April 2, 2015Accessibility is an important, yet way too often overlooked area. Accessibility Wins is a tumblr blog dedicated to showcase accessible user interfaces. Like it!
April Fools
April 1, 2015Today is the day of silly announcements and made-up stories. And despite the fact that we all know very well it’s the 1st of April, we often still tend to believe at least some of them. I’m normally not that much into those things and get bored of Aprils Fools’ quite fast, but there were some today that i found quite funny. Here’s a collection of some of them.
Yoast acquired by Crowd Favorite
This one is pretty well done and included two very well written announcements on both their company blogs about the acquisition. They got me for a second – well done!
WordPress will be bundled in Jetpack
PostStatus wrote a post about how WordPress will soon be directly packed into JetPack as a new module. Including this gem of a sentence:
While there was some controversy over the decision to make WordPress a Jetpack module, in the end the leaders of the respective organizations prevailed to make it happen. The CEO of Automattic worked with the co-founder of WordPress directly, mediated by the head of the WordPress Foundation. Matt Mullenweg said the meetings were very productive.
WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web
Amazon.com takes the homepage back to the 90’s
Amazon changed the homepage to this thing that was amazon.com a long time ago. Would be interesting to know how such a joke affects sales on a huge site like Amazon.
CodeSchool – GeoCities Style
CodeSchool did this special “GeoCities” version of their homepage which will give you a warm nostalgic feeling with all it’s bouncy GIF animations, Comic Sans Text and some bright neon colors to choose from.
Amazon Dash Button
A button to order stuff that you need regularly, without ever having to pull out your phone or computer. This one was announced by Amazon yesterday, so we can’t be 100% sure yet if really a real thing or just a well executed joke. We’ll see, soon.
I’m sure i missed a ton of other things today. What were your favorite jokes today?
register_meta()
March 31, 2015The solution is easy and relies only on core functionality. It’s a simple function called register_meta(). This function is almost identical to the more commonly used register_setting(). When we use register_setting(), we are able to register a callback function. That way, when anyone saves this setting that’s being registered, it passes through that callback for sanitation and validation.
We can do the exact same thing for meta fields with register_meta and not just post meta, but any type of meta data. And, it’s easy to do.
Didn’t know about register_meta() and i think i need to rewrite some stuff now.
Beau Lebens: WordPress As The Backbone(.js)
March 30, 2015A great presentation by Beau Lebens about how to build dynamic Applications using Backbone.js and the upcoming WP-API.
Using Nonces to prevent Request Forgery
March 29, 2015Put simply, CSRF is when bad guys try to trick users (usually someone with access to the WordPress dashboard) into doing something they didn’t intend to do.
This article on CSS-Tricks is the second in a series of articles about WordPress Frontend Security. In this one Andy Adams explains CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and what nonces are, how they are used in WordPress and why it’s so important that you use them.
Birdly
March 28, 2015Birdly is a pretty cool project which intends to simulate flying like a bird in a full body simulator. It uses an Oculus Rift, a moving platform, wind, tactile feedback and even different smells to create a truly virtual reality experience.
I would love to try this thing out for a fly once and there could even be a chance given that it’s developed here in Zurich at the University of the Arts.
I like the way this guy is thinking.
The Reinvention of Normal
March 26, 2015“Go straight off the wall” said his dad and Dominic does just that. The film follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist / inventor / designer, on his quest for new ideas….Transforming the mundane and ordinary into something surprising, wondrous and strangely thought provoking.
The user is drunk
March 25, 2015Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it.
You can’t test that. I’ll do it for you.
WHAT: I’ll get very drunk, and then review your website. I’ll send you a document outlining where I thought the website needed help, and a screencast of me going over the website.
HOW MUCH: $150 per site.
There are some ideas in this world where you cannot tell if ridiculously stupid or simply genius. This is one of those.
CSS-Tricks – An introduction to WordPress Escaping
March 24, 2015If you’re a WordPress developer that writes HTML/CSS/JS (which is 100% of theme developers and 99% of plugin developers), you need to know the basics of front end security for WordPress. WordPress gives you all the tools you need to make your theme or plugin secure. You just need to know how and when to use each tool.
CSS-Tricks published a good introduction to Escaping in WordPress and why it is so important. There’s no excuse anymore to not make your front end code secure.
Introduction to WordPress Front End Security: Escaping the Things