Author Archives: Chris M.

Introducing Zit, an object-oriented dependency injection container

I’ll admit right now that I’m fairly new to the world of dependency injection containers.  I usually do my dependency injection “manually” and have always thought that there must be a better way. Then I came across Pimple, which is … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs went to Cupertino, and all I got were these lousy revolutions…

I came up with a great tee shirt idea.  I’m going to print a few.  You can buy one if you want. Link to this post!

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ExtendBetter Beta (a better WordPress plugin search)

After fighting with the WordPress.org plugin directory for years, I finally decided to do something about my frustrations. I was sick and tired of poor search results, and I found it impossible to sort those results in any meaningful way.  … Continue reading

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30 Days with Occam’s Protocol

Over the last couple of years I’ve experimented with a number of different forms of exercise (mostly running and weight training). For the month of April, I will be testing Occam’s Protocol, a high intensity, low volume weight training approach … Continue reading

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Set OmniFocus As Your Homepage

I’ve found that OmniFocus is by far my favorite task list manager, but one thing I always wished it could do was show me my lists in my browser (which I spend a lot more time in than in OmniFocus).  … Continue reading

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Using Modulo Operations for Even-Enough Distribution

If you don’t have to deal with large groups of data, this post is not for you.  But if you do, and aren’t familiar with the modulo operator, read on. Link to this post!

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Top WordPress Actions/Filters

Today I downloaded just about every WordPress plugin that exists (or the top 8,000+, at least) and parsed out the actions and filters that each plugin hooks into.  I’m going to be looking at that data to help determine the … Continue reading

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Zend Debugger Safari Toolbar

Update: It turns out Safari is more problematic than Firefox, so I’ve switched back.  I have no plans to finish this project.  Feel free to fork it on GitHub. When Safari 5 came out I decided to make the switch. … Continue reading

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Optimize Legibility in Safari 5

Just saw this (via Daring Fireball): Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures And thought, “there’s gotta be an extension for that.”  Well, looks like there isn’t… so I made one: Enjoy! Link to this post!

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Safari Toolbar CSS

By default, Safari extension toolbars are just plain old HTML. That means that your toolbar is going to look a lot like: Wouldn’t it be nice if instead it looked like: I’ve developed a (very) simple CSS file that styles … Continue reading

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