Category Archives: Web Design & Development

Survey of Best Programming Practices

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 by Seán Hayes

I was having a talk today with some colleagues about the scarcity of web developers, and even software engineers, who use best practices such as: using version control using a bug tracker writing unit tests using a programming framework In … Continue reading →

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Just Moved to RackSpace Cloud Servers

Posted on Sunday, September 6, 2009 by Seán Hayes

Sorry for the down time, I just moved to RackSpace and got everything up and running. I had some problems migrating WordPress and getting it working, which stemmed from the fact that it was using too much memory. I ended … Continue reading →

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Redirection WordPress Plugin

Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 by Seán Hayes

So when I first set up this blog I opted for the /archives/%post_id% permalink structure, which I liked because it was short, elegant, and used unique identifiers. I didn’t like the idea of date and slug based permalinks since they … Continue reading →

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WordPress Twitter Better Plugin

Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 by Seán Hayes

One great way I recently found to publicize new blog posts is with the Twitter Better WordPress Plugin. It serves 2 functions: Shows your latest Twitter posts Optionally updates your Twitter status when you save, publish, and/or edit a post, … Continue reading →

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