About 14 months ago, The Daily Californian switched from Disqus to Facebook Comments in order to clean up the comments section of the website. But recently, the decision was reversed, and it was decided that Disqus would make a come back. I worked with one of my Online Developers to facilitate the process. One of […]
From 1999 to mid-2011, the Daily Cal used an in-house CMS to run the website. It contains around 65,000 individual articles and thousands of images. But ever since we moved to WordPress, the old system has been collecting dust in the corner. It was about time that all of the old CMS content was archived […]
Near the end of Spring Break, I helped build the back-end for the Daily Cal’s Best of Berkeley voting website. The awards are given to restaurants and organizations chosen via public voting over the period of a week. Somewhere during the development, we decided it’d be more effective to implement fraud detection rather than prevention. […]
Update I’ve updated the code and text of this post to reflect the latest version of the code. For one of the projects I’ve been working on recently, I needed huge amounts of filler text (we’re talking about a megabyte) for lorem ipsum placeholder copy. Copy is the journalistic term for plain ol’ text in […]
At the Daily Cal, we maintain a ton of CSS code for our website’s WordPress theme. But instead of using a single enormous stylesheet, we check in SASS files to version control which are recompiled on deployment (or for development testing). In one directory, we have a bunch of scss-type files like so: ./ ../ […]