Getting Quotes Right! Every Time! No Excuses!

Perhaps the most frequently misunderstood element of web development is character sets and, in particular, quotes. Devs, editors, and writers love to blame anyone and anything – Microsoft, Word, RSS, the WYSIWYG – for their quote woes. They throw around terms like “curly quotes”,“smart quotes” and “Microsoft quotes” – as... [Read More]

Write a Twitter Bot in an Hour (or less)

Carve out some space on a public server of yours (you’ll need PHP 5.3+ and curl). Register your “app” with Twitter. This might be the hardest part. See: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth Scribble down the various keys you create. Grab https://github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth and place that on your server space Write a simple script. A... [Read More]

When Placeholder Names Stick

Let's just call him He-Man for now. We can change it later.— '80s Don Draper (@80sDonDraper) July 16, 2013