Bryan's thoughts on web design and development

Windows Tools: TortoiseSVN

If you’re on a windows machine and you use SVN, I’ll bet you already know about TortoiseSVN. If not, it’s seriously the most important application in my arsenal. It makes svn management a snap in windows, where before I had to adopt a whole clunky editor (Eclipse) to do the job.
If you don’t know the […]

Deploy PHP like a Starfleet Commander

Ruby on Rails brought with it a lot of good practices in regards to code structure and maintenance. At least for me, my experience with RoR two years ago was the first time I’d used subversion and deployed my code (via capistrano).
Even though I use PHP on my day-to-day, there’s no reason why PHP […]

Saving your Wordpress posts from tyranny (or, How to Disable the Wordpress WYSIWYG editor)

Even with today’s modern version 2.3 era, Wordpress’s WYSIWYG editor is still the evil, overbearing dictator it always was: “You couldn’t possibly have wanted to put that tag there - I’ll go ahead and remove it for you!” How helpfully MS-Word-smart-paste-paper-clip of you!
Thankfully, it’s easier to remove this most egregious of components than a real […]