Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Today I Learned About WordPress Category Templates

Today I learned about category templates in WordPress. There is a simple, yet rarely used feature, that allows you to display content based on a specific category. For example, if you have 10 categories, with ID’s 1-10, and you want to show your visitors something different for each of these 10 categories, you can create files with this naming convention: category-1.php, category-2.php, and so on. When the URL http://mydomain.com/category/coolcat is entered into the browsers address bar, and WordPress sees a category request...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Kindle Is Convenient But Not Always The Best Choice

I know that’s a bold statement, not cost affective. Why am I saying that? Let’s look at a few things. Utah author Brandon Sanderson (who, by the way is finishing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series), has The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2) for sale on Amazon in paperback for $7.99. The Kindle version of this book is, $7.99. No savings, and...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Now You Can Access Google Tasks In Mail, Calendar and Mobile Applications

Finally, Tasks are part of the Google calendaring application. The Task feature has been available for a while now, but it wasn’t available as part of the calendaring system, where I believe most people want and need to use a task management system.As is typical with Google, it’s not a flashy part of the calendaring system. Looking at the image below,...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Beautiful Views

This was the best vie...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Importance Of People Versus Technology

People are where it's at. Technology is just a vehicle.Today is April 1st. Typically people see today as the start of Spring. A time to renew. A time to access our plan for the year, and make some course corrections.PodCampSLC 2009 just wrapped up a few days ago. Having the opportunity to meet people I have only interacted with through technology was awesome. I think it is vitally important for people to meet face to face. You can't hide behind a screen. Venture out. Meet up. There are so many things going on out there, you...
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