Tech
My Newest Project
I just wanted to let everyone know about a new joint venture I took up with my good friend Cory Miller yesterday. I’ll be developing Wordpress themes with Cory and posting them at RockinThemes.com indefinitely. More details to follow in the coming weeks. Life’s always funner when you can do what you [...]
Building Wordpress Themes from Scratch
Since I released my first public Wordpress theme yesterday (a modification of Cory Miller’s RockinBlue theme), I figure there are going to be a lot of new visitors on this site for that reason.
Building themes (or websites in general) has been one of the most rewarding experiences in my tech career (my day job and [...]
My First Wordpress Theme
Recently, my buddy Cory jumped into the Wordpress theme development world. I suppose that after redoing his own blog, he felt comfortable enough with the WP API to attempt to write one of his own. What he ended up with was great!
Being the code junkie that I am, I decided to take a [...]
5 apps I couldn’t function without
I just came across this story on digg and it got me thinking about all the services that I use daily, and that I probably couldn’t do what I do without them. I thought since I have a blog, and therefore blog readers, I’d post some of them here for all you guys to read.
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Incoming links to an average post
Since I am, and probably always will be, a stats freak. I check them at least 50 times a day (seriously). Although I do consider this blog a pleasure, I still want it to be successful. In the blog world, success is measured by your audience size (readers and subscribers). [...]
The spammers made me do it - Akismet
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been receiving a large amount of comment spam. If you don’t know what that is, it’s essentially the same thing as spam email, but instead of sending it to your inbox, they post it as a comment on a blog.
Although WordPress did a pretty good job of [...]
Feedburner now reporting Google Reader Stats
As some of you might remember, I have complained about Google not reporting readership stats to Feedburner, thus not allowing those of us who use Feedburner to get an accurate measurement of our total feed subscribers.
It pays off to be subscribed to the Feedburner blog, since I just saw this post pop into my google [...]
I digg, digg.com that is
Coming on the heels of one of a downer post, I wanted to get something informative and fun out there. Tony Hung, who blogs at Deep Jive Interests, is a favorite of mine (he’ll be in a blogroll post coming up in a couple months). He’ll be interested to know that I discovered [...]
Feed Contest Winner
Congratulations to Ryan for winning our feed contest!
Ryan is a feed subscriber to nathanrice.org (as opposed to being an email subscriber), and reads this site through Feed Reader.
Ryan blogs at www.aspiringindie.com/blog so be sure to head over there and congratulate him, or you can congratulate in the comments.
He is the proud new owner of a [...]
My new favorite blog reading technique
As I stated in my 3 month anniversary post, I’m always looking for new intellectual, humorous, entertaining, or otherwise enjoyable blogs to read. Sadly, there aren’t a whole lot of blogs who I consider “knock-outs” and therefore I visit their site about once a week instead of subscribing to their blogs in my Google [...]