Chomper Stomping | jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected

jQuery/JavaScript/CSS 3/HTML 5, Java/PHP/Python/ActionScript, Git, Chrome/Firefox Extensions, Wordpress/Game/iPhone App Development and other random techie tidbits I've collected

WP phpBB Bridge: Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given

Warning: mysql_set_charset() expects parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in wp-content/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/inc/widgets/wpbb_topics_widget.php on line 149 This is an error caused by the fact that the WP phpBB Bridge plugin is naively written in places. For instance, in this case the plugin authors don’t expect you to be using a socket instead of a port. Looking [...]

Events Calendar Pro Nav Formatting Messed up on Empty Calendar

The Events Calendar Pro (from http://tri.be/) has a few problems. If you are trying to figure out why a calendar with no events in that month has completely screwed up header navigation, just put this line of code inside of table.php in the top of the display_day function (put it directly before the for loop): [...]

OH SHNIKES, WE’VE BEEN HAXORED!!!

Yes. It finally happened. After… 6 years? on the web I finally got hacked. Two domains affected: http://cmcculloh.com http://hallelujahbutton.com (this also of course affected all sub-domains of cmcculloh.com, such as blog.cmcculloh.com). This morning I went to my site and was told by Chrome that I wasn’t allowed to go in because my site was going [...]

WordPress Settings API – Adding Options to Existing Page

Adding new options to an existing page in the dashboard in wordpress can be maddening. I’ve literally spent 15+ hours dealing with this horrible API at this point. To the point where I wrote two different wrappers for it. Here are some notes chiseled along the way for any poor soul following me down this [...]

Teaser of things to come…

Lots going on at ChomperStomp right now. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in work and in babies (3 month old and 2.5 year old). Here’s a little teaser for something big I’m working on: That’s right, custom user ratings in Continuum Coming November 1st! (will require either Continuum 1.9 or Continuum Refactor 11.1101, both [...]