Music Remixes

Those of you who know me know that I am a huge fan of old-school video game music – especially remixes, which is largely why I founded 8BitCool.  Well, maybe it’s just retro music, in general.  I recently came across a Doo-Wop version of “My Heart...

Hiding WordPress backend menu items

I’m reworking a client’s site and am replacing their functions.php.  In there, I found a function that I wrote to remove specific menu items from the WordPress Administrative area.  For future reference, here it is: /** * Several menus items are shown to...

A call stack for PHP

So, I’ve not come across any useful tool, like VisualStudio, that has an interactive callstack.  Next best thing?  This function from PHP: debug_print_traceback. Give it a go.  Besides just a bunch of echo/die statements, you might want to use...

Odd SSL forcing

I’ve been with my wife at the hospital today and have been working on the BluePrint-Q Tones while she rests.  Inbetween sessions, exactly one of the websites that I develop on localhost stopped loading properly.  I saw a ton of errors like this in the browser...

Surface resolution

I’ve been working with a Windows Surface Pro 3 for the past year now.  Speed is great for my work, I’m able to play some of the latest games, and it is super-light.  However, its biggest detractor is this flimsy keyboard that makes it difficult to work...