Posted by Artem Russakovskii on January 15th, 2010 in
Programming,
Wordpress
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who read and gave their 2 cents about the [Wordpress Plugin Development] How To Include CSS and JavaScript Conditionally And Only When Needed By The Posts post. The article was well received and will hopefully spark some optimizations around loading styles and scripts.
Here are some discussions and mentions around the web:
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on January 13th, 2010 in
Tips,
Tutorials,
Wordpress
Updated: January 15th, 2010
Introduction
In this tutorial, I am going to introduce a Wordpress technique that I believe was unpublished until I raised the question a few days ago on the Wordpress forums.
In short, the problem I was trying to solve was plugins unnecessarily loading their JavaScript and CSS on *every* page of the blog, even when doing so would achieve absolutely nothing and the plugin wouldn't…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on December 20th, 2009 in
Tips,
Twitter
Ever since the introduction of the official Retweet button, I've wanted it to be a little more interactive. I usually want to add my 2 cents into the tweet I'm about to retweet but the default RT button just doesn't allow for it – Yes is the only option:
Troy's Twitter Script
Enter Troy's Twitter script for Firefox that I reviewed…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 24th, 2009 in
Programming,
Technology,
Tips
What Is This All About?
If you, like me, love StackOverflow, SuperUser, ServerFault – the community programming/software/sysadmin Q&A sites built by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood and you are an active member of these sites, you owe it to yourself to install this underappreciated and unadvertised greasemonkey script:
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 11th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Stuff,
Technology
Updated: October 6th, 2009
WTF
I don't know about you, but I'm incredibly sick of Facebook quizzes. Yeah, shit like this which occupies 90% of my news feed:
And to make matters worse, Facebook provides no means to block these quizzes and rid your profile of them forever. The only thing you can do is block each individual quiz. But just like weeds in your backyard, when you block one, three more rise…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on March 17th, 2009 in
Awesomeness,
My Favorites,
Technology,
Twitter
Updated: April 10th, 2009
Recently I read an article on the Six Revisions blog that discussed 10 seemingly simple improvements to the twitter interface. They included such things as nick autocomplete, mentions, groups, and more.
You could only dream about such twitter improvements… that is until you use the Troys Twitter script. Just perform the following steps and you will have the features I describe in this article. Here we…
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on March 5th, 2009 in
Linux,
Perl,
Programming
Updated: June 9th, 2009
Problem
While writing a 1093985th Perl script the other day I was facing the following dilemma:
- Let’s say there is a local library, called TheUberLib.pm. It is so uber that most of my scripts, located all over the machine, include it.
- Now, let’s also say that there’s an even more uberly important binary called run_me_now_or_you_will_die but the only way to find it is by using a relative path
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Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 28th, 2007 in
Programming
Updated: May 23rd, 2009
Removes all ftprush queue items that don't download to localhost. It is useful to run if you FXP a lot of files back and forth and want to clean up the queues from time to time, but don't want to delete anything that is downloading. Feel free to make a shortcut to this script and run it any time you want.
Note that this script is only compatible with the…
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