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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 tab...

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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....

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Using two different identity files with ssh for rsa remote authentication keys

I have two different servers I need to connect to, each requiring two different types of remote authentication keys. One requires rsa, the other dss. So I had to make and use two different remote authentication keys, but was un...

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Creating ATG Droplets and serving a default oparam

Creating your own ATG droplets is not difficult. Servicing a default open parameter (oparam) in an ATG droplet is surprisingly extremely easy. ATG has these things called “droplets” that you use from within your ...

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Yet Another Reason to Namespace your JavaScript Variables

If you aren’t namespacing your JS variables, you should be. There are a plethora of great reasons to do so, which I won’t go into here, but I just stumbled upon another great reason today. It makes your code faster....

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Git it now?

Git is amazing. The problem is, it’s hard for a lot of people to get git. Specifically the remotes part. If you are used to CVS or SVN (Subversion) you’re probably used to the idea that when you “commit”...

by Christopher McCulloh

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