Synopsis WordPress is a powerful multi-user web content management system. Due to its multi-user nature, WordPress has long instituted a full fledged user system, complete with separated roles and permissions for each user. What happens, however, when WordPress is brought into an environment with an existing user repository? Out of the box WordPress has no
Securely Connecting to the WikiMedia Subversion Server from Windows
The WikiMedia Foundation (WMF) provides public access to the MediaWiki code base via a Subversion code revisioning system. For the majority of users who just want to be on the bleeding edge of MediaWiki simply pulling from this public server will suffice, however this only allows users read access to the repository. If you want
My WordCamp Victoria 2012 Presentation: The Proof is in the Pudding – Yep it works with Microsoft
Microsoft has been making a great effort over the years to embrace Open Source technologies and bring further support for Open Source projects to its platform. I was recruited last year by Microsoft to help further the interoperability cause and work heavily with PHP on Microsoft platforms. The platforms and tools of today have reached
Introducing the Meetup API client for PHP
I am working on a pretty major project right now and one of the requirements is the ability to interact with the Meetup API. I looked around and found one existing Meetup client in PHP, however it is horribly architected and as I started using it thinking I could improve it I decided it would
Useful sites for WordPress developers
I was asked by another WordPress developer if there are any sites that I recommend other WordPress developers follow. I do have such a list and decided that I will publish it in the hopes that others will also find these resources useful. This site of course 😀 My WordPress posts The Codex WPRecipes WordPress