Exporting comments from Facebook Comments to Disqus

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 […]

7 tips for writing better CSS

CSS stylesheets are a fundamental part of the web, but they are also one of the most neglected parts of modern web applications. Traditional programming languages give you a ton of organizational features: namespaces, classes, scope, blocks, etc. CSS has none of these constructs. I recently released the WordPress theme that runs this blog on […]

Same origin policy and a buggy WordPress plugin

Update I don’t use the plugin mentioned in this post anymore. On this blog, I use the Crayon syntax highlighter for WordPress to render all the code snippets, since this is a programming blog after all. Crayon is one of the more popular highlighting plugins, as clearly demonstrated by the sad condition of its support […]