Lacquer Head

I was trying to teach Kaisey how to count, without much success. The results are very cute though. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s summer, and if if it wasn’t for Barbecue, I’d move to New Zealand for the winter. Thankfully cooking meat over a fire is as old as time and my wife won’t leave me for moving to New Zealand in the summer. Does that make any sense?

No.

About 5 years ago I read this BBQ brisket “recipe.” I put recipe in quotes because it was more of a narrative than a recipe. Some girl had interviewed this old guy on how to make his famous brisket. I wish I could find this again but Google has failed me for the first time. Anyways, the thing I remember most was his Recipe for BBQ rub. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »

I was having some issues adding sub-categories that had duplicate names, but unique slugs. I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but since the slug is the unique key, it doesn’t make sense to me why you couldn’t be able to have duplicate names if the slug is unique. Anyways, here is a hack, not a plugin, so you’ll need to fix it again if you update Wordpress. Read the rest of this entry »

So, I’m a pretty big Primus fan but I’ve never been a big fan of Les Claypool’s solo work though (except “Highball with the Devil”). Anyways, I listened to his latest album, “Of Fungi and Foe” and there was one song on it, “Bite Out of Life,” I really liked. It kinda sounds like Primus’ tour bus collided with a band of gypsies. Here it is on youtube, but it probably won’t last…

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My mouth waters just looking at this picture. Those pots of sauce simmering away, the smokey salmon….

Old-School Barbecue: Planked Shad

I need a time machine!

I found this image at Shorpy.

About a year before James Brown died, he came to our little K-Town. I posted about my experience there on the Steeldolphin Forums, and here it is.

I have been a James Brown fan for a long time. I always thought, “If there ever was a chance to see hime live, I would go.” So, unbelievably, he comes to our town. He’s doing the “Seven Decades of Funk” tour. He’s in his 70’s, can he still do it? Can he still put on a show?
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Here’s another article that’s pretty old, I don’t have a date on it but I think it’s about 7 years old. I’ve noticed that more and more sites focus more on ROI and less on looking cool these days, but there are still some good points here.

Many graphic design magazines and websites give awards for outstanding web design. Rarely do these awards take usability into consideration. Graphic Design is very important factor in web design, but there are more considerations to be made when building a website. What is usability, and how does it factor in measuring a site’s success Read the rest of this entry »

In the previous articles, I used a PHP shortcut to display variables. Just like this:

<?=$variable?>

That method, although very friendly and quick, is deprecated, so you should get used to doing this instead:

<?php echo $variable; ?>

I’ll keep you posted if I com up with anything else.

As I mentioned in my previous post, there are some old deprecated things here, I’ll update later.

You now know how to create and display variables with PHP. Here is a review of everything I’ve used so far.

How to break in and out of PHP:

How to set a variable:

How to quickly display a variable:

Now we are going to use “if,” “else,” and “echo” to set default values for the title, and meta tags. There won’t be a step by step process for this one, I’m just gonna display the sample code for header.php. Everything else is done almost exactly the same as Part 2. Read the rest of this entry »

This is an older tutorial and contains deprecated PHP code. I’ll revisit this in the near future to elaborate.

PHP is great because not only will it allow you to insert files like SSIs, it allows you to easily pass variables on to them such as a page title (your server must support PHP for this to work). You don’t need to know anything about PHP to use this. This example will show how to do this and pass on individual page titles, descriptions and keywords. Read the rest of this entry »