Mitchell McKenna - imported from mento.info http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com How to Include JavaScript and CSS in Your WordPress Themes and Plugins http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10837/how-to-include-javascript-and-css-in-your-wordpress-themes-and-plugins

So your working on your WordPress theme, and need to include some javascript or css, just throw it in the header or footer right? Well, actually Wordpress has it's own preferred way of including js and css. If you follow their best practices, you can avoid the risk of conflicting with other themes and plugins.

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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:18:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10837/how-to-include-javascript-and-css-in-your-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/how-to-include-javascript-and-css-in-your-wordpress-themes-and-plugins
Bootswatch: Themed swatches for Bootstrap http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10825/bootswatch-themed-swatches-for-bootstrap

I recently posted a link to "Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrap" which allows you to pick different colors for your bootstrap elements, but this goes a step further. It provides examples of how easy it is to swap out color palettes and fonts for Bootstrap.

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:54:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10825/bootswatch-themed-swatches-for-bootstrap/bootswatch-themed-swatches-for-bootstrap
SimpLESS - Cross-platform LESS CSS Compiler http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10806/simpless-cross-platform-less-css-compiler

One of my only issues with ever popular LESS.app is that it's not available on Windows or Linux; I often switch between linux and mac environments so I was glad to see SimpLESS does just that, a less compiler for all 3 big operating systems.

SimpLESS will watch files for when you save them and compile your LESS files on the fly to css. It supports @import parsing, minificaiton, and will display syntax errors if you have an error in your syntax.

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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:46:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10806/simpless-cross-platform-less-css-compiler/simpless-cross-platform-less-css-compiler
Zocial | CSS3 Button Set http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10763/zocial-css3-button-set

CSS3 button set with 42 login/social icons. It’s image-free, small and easy to use. CSS buttons have a number of obvious advantages in comparison to image buttons: editable labels, smaller bandwidth consumption, graceful degradation, and editable size. Available on github.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10763/zocial-css3-button-set/zocial-css3-button-set
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrap http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10764/beautiful-buttons-for-twitter-bootstrap

An extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. Just adjust the sliders on the left and copy the CSS in from the box below.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:04:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10764/beautiful-buttons-for-twitter-bootstrap/beautiful-buttons-for-twitter-bootstrap
Bones - The HTML5 Wordpress Starter Theme http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10740/bones-the-html5-wordpress-starter-theme

A blank WordPress theme to start your next custom WordPress theme from. Available as both a responsive and static theme. Using the 960 Grid. Built Around HTML5 Boilerplate. Insanely Detailed & Organized CSS File. Easy to Customize & Expand Upon.

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Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:49:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10740/bones-the-html5-wordpress-starter-theme/bones-the-html5-wordpress-starter-theme
jQuery UI Bootstrap – A Twitter Bootstrap Inspired Theme For Your jQuery UI Widgets http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10719/jquery-ui-bootstrap-a-twitter-bootstrap-inspired-theme-for-your-jquery-ui-widgets

jQuery UI Bootstrap offers a clean implementation of the Twitter Bootstrap design as a jQuery UI theme that can be applied to widgets . It also includes a 'cleaned up' version of Bootstrap which can be used alongside this particular theme without needing to worry about styles colliding.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:47:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10719/jquery-ui-bootstrap-a-twitter-bootstrap-inspired-theme-for-your-jquery-ui-widgets/jquery-ui-bootstrap-a-twitter-bootstrap-inspired-theme-for-your-jquery-ui-widgets
Iconic Icon Set – 177 Icons (Vector, Type, Raster) http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10579/iconic-icon-set-177-icons-vector-type-raster

Iconic is intended to be minimal renderings yet unique in form. Alternatives for several marks have been added for greater choice in style.

Works in all sizes; one main goal for these icons were to have them maintain high legibility over a large scale range. Almost all of the icons in this set will work from 8×8 pixels to however large you need to go. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats.

All raster-format icons come in 5 sizes; 8×8, 12×12, 16×16, 24×24 & 32×32 pixels as well as 14 colors. This set is currently licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

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Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:43:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10579/iconic-icon-set-177-icons-vector-type-raster/iconic-icon-set-177-icons-vector-type-raster
GitHub Buttons with Watch and Fork Counts http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10487/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts

Mark Dotto of Twitter has created GitHub buttons to provide consistent, easy-to-use links back to a GitHub project. The buttons are very similar to the kind of social buttons for twitter and Facebook you see on blog posts. For their initial release functionality is limited to a static link back to your repo and dynamic counts for the number of watchers and forks on any public repo. In the future it will expand on this to support user profiles and dynamic buttons via oAuth.

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Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:41:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10487/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts/github-buttons-with-watch-and-fork-counts
neo4j: Graph / Hierarchy NOSQL Database http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10483/neo4j-graph-hierarchy-nosql-database

Neo4j is an open source graph database, storing data in the nodes and relationships of a graph.

An intuitive graph-oriented model for data representation. A disk-based, native storage manager completely optimized for storing graph structures for maximum performance and scalability. Neo4j can handle graphs of several billion nodes/relationships/properties on a single machine and can be sharded to scale out across multiple machines. A powerful traversal framework for high-speed traversals in the node space. Can be deployed as a full server or a very slim database with a small footprint (~750k jar). A simple and convenient object-oriented API.

Unlike twitter's FlockDB, neo4j can handle multiple levels of hierarchy. However where FlockDB is better is it's low latency, high throughput and inherent distributed nature.

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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:44:00 -0500 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10483/neo4j-graph-hierarchy-nosql-database/neo4j-graph-hierarchy-nosql-database
Basic jQuery Slider http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10388/basic-jquery-slider

A simple, no-frills, robust jQuery plugin for creating beautiful slideshows for your featured content.

Basic jQuery Slider has been developed to be as simple and lightweight as possible. Only the essential functionality has been included combined with clean semantic mark-up. This means instead of removing features and bending a slider plugin to suit your needs, you can use this slider and as a base and extend it to be as feature rich, or as simple, as you need.

Slides can contain any valid HTML markup. Slide and fade animations. Supported in all major browsers. Easy to theme. Supports keyboard navigation. Super lightweight, at 4.6kb minified.

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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:03:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10388/basic-jquery-slider/basic-jquery-slider
Exhibition Theme - Free Wordpress Theme http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10387/exhibition-theme-free-wordpress-theme

Exhibition Theme is clean and modern WordPress theme with a blog like design. Great theme for artists to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work. Check out the demo page or the theme video provided to see how it works.

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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:52:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10387/exhibition-theme-free-wordpress-theme/exhibition-theme-free-wordpress-theme
VideoHive - Marketplace for After Effects Projects and Motion Graphics http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10247/videohive-marketplace-for-after-effects-projects-and-motion-graphics

VideoHive by Envato is a Marketplace for buying royalty free open/title sequences and tutorials on motion graphics. The site is home to a bustling community of motion graphics junkies!

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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:30:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10247/videohive-marketplace-for-after-effects-projects-and-motion-graphics/videohive-marketplace-for-after-effects-projects-and-motion-graphics
Notificon - JS Library to Put Notifications in the Favicon http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10217/notificon-js-library-to-put-notifications-in-the-favicon

"Notificon is a javascript class for providing client-side favicon notifications. Instead of requiring a number of favicons be created and served up to the client, you can specify a label and a favicon (default being the current favicon) and it will generate a favicon notification."

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Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:29:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10217/notificon-js-library-to-put-notifications-in-the-favicon/notificon-js-library-to-put-notifications-in-the-favicon
iOS Boilerplate - A base template for iOS apps http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10117/ios-boilerplate-a-base-template-for-ios-apps

The boilerplate includes the following libraries: ASIHTTPRequest, JSONKit, SVProgressHUD and few others.

It also includes helper classes for: - HTTP requests and an image cache (both in-memory and disk-based). - UITableViews and UITableViewCells: fast scrolling, async images, pull-down-to-refresh, swipeable cells. Maps and locations: directions between two points, autocomplete a location, etc.

Note: Some of the libraries here may become obsolete once iOS 5 is released, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996785

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Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:31:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10117/ios-boilerplate-a-base-template-for-ios-apps/ios-boilerplate-a-base-template-for-ios-apps
REST Console - a Google Chrome REST/HTTP Client http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10085/rest-console-a-google-chrome-resthttp-client

Makes it easy to visualise and construct custom HTTP requests to test with any RESTful web service. Syntax highlighting, custom headers and construct POST or Put body via raw input.

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Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:03:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10085/rest-console-a-google-chrome-resthttp-client/rest-console-a-google-chrome-resthttp-client
Guide to Overclocking the HP Touchpad to 1.9Ghz http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10072/guide-to-overclocking-the-hp-touchpad-to-19ghz

The HP TouchPad has a very active homebrew community that makes patches available to help speed up and improve the OS. HP has actually made modifying the OS generally easy to modify. This guide will walk you through step by step instructions how to get the software and patches installed to get the Touchpad overclocked and running as fast as safely possible.

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Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:29:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/10072/guide-to-overclocking-the-hp-touchpad-to-19ghz/guide-to-overclocking-the-hp-touchpad-to-19ghz
leanModal - Super-Light Weight Lightbox Effect http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9812/leanmodal-super-light-weight-lightbox-effect

Looking for something to give a simple lightbox effect (maybe just a login prompt), but don't really want to include something like jQueryUI for just it's dialog effect? This little function is less than 1 KB.

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Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:20:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9812/leanmodal-super-light-weight-lightbox-effect/leanmodal-super-light-weight-lightbox-effect
jQuery Lifestream http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9806/jquery-lifestream

Show a stream of your online activity with jQuery. Great if you want to toss your lifestream into a sidebar on your website. Very simple stream with a icon of the service you posted to and a link to the post. Over 25 social networks supported so far and growing.

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Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:26:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9806/jquery-lifestream/jquery-lifestream
Slides - A Rotating Image Slider http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9801/slides-a-rotating-image-slider

"Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows."

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Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:26:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9801/slides-a-rotating-image-slider/slides-a-rotating-image-slider