Blog - Web Development - Kenny Carlile

Multiple GitHub Pages Sites with One GitHub Account
Published: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Category: web-development

You’re probably familiar with GitHub Pages and how you can host HTML (or Jekyll-generated HTML) as part of your GitHub account. Most of the documentation says that you can host one site per account, but there are some references to hosting multiple sites on a single account. After a bunch of digg... Read more >>

Flash Chord - Practice chords, scales, or arpeggios with an endless stream of randomized chords!
Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Category: web-development

I’ve recently published a new project called Flash Chord (at FlashChord.com) which is a web-based tool for practicing chords, scales, and arpeggios against an endless stream of randomized chords. I’ve used various backing tracks and other tools, like iReal Pro, for practicing chords and scales... Read more >>

Drupal Module - Brickset Connect 8.x-1.0-alpha1 released
Published: Sunday, August 25, 2019
Category: web-development

I’ve published the first release (8.x-1.0-alpha1) of a Drupal 8 module I’ve been on which I’ve been work for a couple of months. Brickset Connect allows a user to connect to the Brickset.com API and query Lego set information about a given set number and create a node with that data and associate... Read more >>

Webinar - An Inside Look: Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder Exam [June 23, 2015]
Published: Saturday, June 27, 2015
Category: web-development

I was recently asked by Peter Manijak of Acquia’s cetification program to participate in a webinar (with Peter and Jeff Beeman of Acquia) on the topic of providing an inside look into Acquia’s Certified Drupal Site Builder exam. Last February, I helped create the Site Builder exam and revise the ... Read more >>

Drupal - Getting Clean URLs To Work With GoDaddy Shared Hosting
Published: Friday, April 23, 2010
Category: web-development

If you’re using GoDaddy for your web hosting and you’ve installed Drupal on your shared hosting (Economy, Deluxe, or Unlimited hosting plans), then you may have run into the issue where you can’t enable Clean URLs for Drupal. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix. Unfortunately, the fix is so easy, I’... Read more >>

WordPress - Making Yoast Breadcrumbs Behave Like A Good Boy
Published: Sunday, April 04, 2010
Category: web-development

I mentioned in a recent post (okay, very recent) that Yoast Breadcrumbs needed some tweaking to get it to behave the way I wanted it to. This post will outline the changes that I made to my theme to get Yoast Breadcrumbs to cooperate. First, check to see if the plugin is installed and enabled. I... Read more >>

WordPress - Displaying Custom-Formatted Links To Page Children
Published: Saturday, April 03, 2010
Category: web-development

This is just a quick and easy tip, but it was harder to find the answer to than I would have expected. (…or maybe I just didn’t appease the Google Gods correctly when searching.) If you have a page hierarchy within your WordPress site and you want to display (such as in the sidebar) the immediat... Read more >>

GoDaddy Shared Hosting Multiple-Domain And Subdomain Management
Published: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Category: web-development

If you use GoDaddy’s shared hosting plans that support multiple domains (the Deluxe or Unlimited plans) and you’ve tried to manage multiple domains and subdomains, then you probably are already familiar with the organizational frustrations that can occur. In a standard web server environment, ea... Read more >>

Yet Another List Of Recommended WordPress Plugins
Published: Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Category: web-development

I know there have been a zillion and a half posts written about the best plugins for WordPress, but I thought I would throw my hat in the ring and offer up my favorites. Some are the common ones that you’ll find on many other lists, but some are ones that I’ve had to dig for to fulfill a unique n... Read more >>

Encoding Time Cues Into YouTube URLs
Published: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Category: web-development

I recently wanted to send someone a clip from The ‘Burbs on YouTube, but I wanted them to see a specific line from the movie. I knew that if you added a timecode in MM:SS format to a comment that YouTube would parse that as a link to that timecode in the video, but I figured they had to have a wa... Read more >>

Wordpress 2.5.1 Bug - Admin Can't Publish
Published: Monday, July 14, 2008
Category: web-development

In Wordpress 2.5.1, after you’ve created additional publishing users, the administrator account can no longer publish posts or pages. Or rather, the administrator can publish, but it appears under another user’s name as the administrator’s account is not an option in the drop down. After quite s... Read more >>

Kobayashi Maru For Developers
Published: Friday, June 20, 2008
Category: web-development

Being the geek that I am, I remembered the reference to the Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek many years ago, but I was surprised when one of my professors in college brought it up in reference to a sorting algorithm. His linking these two references changed the way I thought about solving problems. ... Read more >>

Yahoo vs. Eric Meyer CSS Reset
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Category: web-development

In my post titled WebVisions 2008 Conference Debriefing, I mentioned the concept of a CSS reset and provided links to two versions: the Eric Meyer CSS Reset and the Yahoo UI Library CSS Reset. Both address the issue of browser having their own internal stylesheets that don’t necessarily match. F... Read more >>

Remove Fancy Quotes From WordPress
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Category: web-development

If you’re annoyed by the fancy quotes that WordPress replaces your normal quotes with (i.e. “these quotes” rather than "these regular quotes"), there’s an easy way to get rid of them. Just use Semiologic’s Unfancy Quote Plugin For WordPress and presto chango, your fancy quotes are gone! I had fo... Read more >>

Remove Generator Field From WordPress Meta
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Category: web-development

WordPress automagically interjects meta content specifying that the generator of the webpage is WordPress and, specifically, what version it is. Like this: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5.1" /> If you want to remove that, there’s an easy way to do it. If you don’t already h... Read more >>

Sending Email From PHP On GoDaddy (And Possibly Other Hosts)
Published: Monday, June 16, 2008
Category: web-development

Recently, while working on the temporary site for Moonfar, I wanted to send the user an email as confirmation that they had signed up for email notifications. Essentially, you define the recipient, the subject line, the body, a few headers, and then call the mail() function while passing those pa... Read more >>

WebVisions 2008 Conference Debriefing
Published: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Category: web-development

I recently attended the WebVisions 2008 conference in Portland, OR. It was my first conference, so I can’t speak to the quality with much experience. However, my general opinion was that there was some good, some bad, and some ugly, as one might expect. That said, the good was well worth the expe... Read more >>

Eternally Up To Date Copyrights
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Category: web-development

I can’t tell you how many times, both personally and professionally, I’ve come across web sites that have out of date copyright dates. A living, breathing, up to date site should have a current copyright date somewhere on the page, usually in the footer. Changing the year is easy enough if it’s s... Read more >>

Spam-proof MailTo Links
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007
Category: web-development

I like providing links for e-mail on web pages, but I hate that spam-bots scrape sites looking for e-mail addresses linked in the usual manner. There are many hacks to try to avoid spam-bots The Cander Method Version 1 (AKA: “Make The User Do The Work”) Named for a friend that I learned this fr... Read more >>

Make A File Dropbox For Quick Downloads
Published: Friday, July 13, 2007
Category: web-development

I frequently need to setup a quick and temporary link for file download either for myself or others, but I hate having to create a new page with links to files that are only going to exist for a few hours. Apache and other web servers often provide this functionality with directory browsing, but ... Read more >>

Turn Blogger Into Your Own Blog
Published: Friday, July 06, 2007
Category: web-development

Recently I was working with a client who wanted a blog for their site but they didn’t have the money (and I didn’t have the time) for a completely one-off solution. The initially proposed solution was to simply make the “Blog” link point to a Blogger (which was purchased by Google a while back, i... Read more >>

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