… where "making an UI" means coding the plugin option page, making it understandable, carefully pick some wording, don't overwhelm with unneeded explanations but make sure everything is crystal clear, throw a bit of jQuery to make the page more functional. … and sometimes I'm a bit fed up with this pattern. Note that it's […][...] → Read more
Archive for the "Useless" Tag
As a sequel to my previous post about the number of functions across WordPress history, let's talk now about files and sizes. Through the 54 releases to date, WordPress has grown from an immature toddler to a big healthy kid. The following graph shows the evolution of the zip archive size and the total uncompressed […][...] → Read more
A few fun and useless facts I collected while mining through 54 WordPress releases, from 0.7.1 to 3.0.1: The latest version of WordPress, 3.0.1 as of publishing, has 3240 PHP functions defined. The first version (0.7.1) had 309 Across all WordPress versions, 3920 PHP functions have been defined and used On average, each ".X" release […][...] → Read more
My most popular stuff on del.icio.us just got past 1000 bookmarks, and my feed reader count is now just above 500. I love you all![...] → Read more
This tatoo doesn't even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit)[...] → Read more
Cool! I'm popular today :)[...] → Read more
What's wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they've been sent, and I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few.[...] → Read more
Just two more feed readers and I'll break the 300 mark… Subscribe ppplease! :)[...] → Read more
Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don't care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of […][...] → Read more
