Mark Parolisi

I presented an overview of the WordPress application to a recent client and decided to post it on slideshare for anyone interested. It’s intended for a technical audience, but it is not an overly technical presentation. Please feel free to comment on it and send in any error I may have made. Hope you enjoy… [...]

Like most people, I was very excited about the iPad…before it was presented. I’m not going to go into the details why I’m not a fan (that’s already been done to death by everyone else on the internet). I’m just going to say one thing: multi-tasking. I really needed wanted a travel-sized device so I could read blogs, [...]

A few months ago Chris Scott gave a presentation on ‘proper’ WordPress plugin development. It was full of great stuff so I thought I’d pass along a small slice of it here.

Ok, so this isn’t a rant per-se, but I have been very busy lately and feeling a small rant coming on soon. I use a lot of open-source products, and most of my education and skill-set is derived from what I’ve learned from hacking reverse-engineering many of these projects. In turn, I always try to [...]

The old site design just seemed a little bloated for me, so I’m changing it up. It will hopefully organize the content more clearly and will allow visitors to browse more easily.

Sometimes you need to add objects to a page from other sources. Like Facebook friendconnect boxes, twitter widgets, or some Google tool(s). Many times, these elements will not pass W3C validation and ruin your perfectly crafted site. To get around this problem, I use some JavaScript to simply inject these elements into my page after [...]

This javascript snippet is in almost every site I build. It scans the links on the page and add target=’_blank’ to any anchor tag with a href not starting with our domain. Here are two different ways to do it using two different JavaScript libraries.

I attended the first ever Orlando WordCamp recently and I must say it was amazing. The entire core development team were there. Matt Mullenweg (co-founder) actually told me that this was the first time they were ever all in one place at the same time, some of them meeting for the first time ever! The [...]