Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Some parts of the WordPress code structure for PHP markup are inconsistent in their style. WordPress is working to gradually improve this by helping users maintain a consistent style so the code can become clean and easy to read at a glance. Keep the following points in mind when writing PHP code for WordPress, whether…
Well, this is a bummer. Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched Kingsman: The Secret Service yet, or if you prefer to not sully your day with some grossness. After being asked during a recent Entertainment Weekly interview what inspired “the gag” at the end of the film Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn spoke about wanting to subvert spy film tropes:…
No zoning nonsense here FOR a view of Houston’s economy, get in a car. At the intersection of the Loop and Freeway 225, two motorways in the south-east of the city, you drive over a high, tangled overpass. To the east, where the port of Houston sits on Buffalo Bayou, the skyline is an endless…
Controllers are the fundamental starting point of the Boiler framework, linking the raw HTTP request to the correct function. The following tutorial builts a “Hello World” controller, which you can run on your own machine. [For the purposes of this tutorial, we will assume you are running on localhost] When you first open Boiler using http://localhost/ You…
Ben Rubin, the cofounder of the streaming social video app Meerkat, had just arrived at SXSW in Austin, Texas, started handing out bright yellow T-shirts, and was enjoying his app’s massive buzz when he got the call. It was from Twitter: They wanted to let him know that Meerkat’s access to the Twitter graph was…
The other day, I semi-jokingly tweeted this screencap: I found it noteworthy, because the video in question was about tax tips for self-employed people. I found it somewhat emblematic of the online experience for women; it doesn’t matter what you say, you are not welcome here unless you are existing solely for male consumption. Most…
How to use bookmarklets in mobile Chrome Many of the bookmarklets used on your desktop version of Chrome can also be used on your mobile device. Here’s the steps you’ll need to get started. more+ Layered tabs in Chrome for Android. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET There are Android apps that come with many features, possibly…
It’s not only the just-released University of Michigan consumer confidence report and February retail sales on Thursday that surprised economists and investors with another dose of underwhelming news. Overall, U.S. economic data have been falling short of prognosticators’ expectations by the most in six years. The Bloomberg ECO U.S. Surprise Index, which measures whether data beat or miss forecasts, fell…
Iceland sent a letter to the president of the European Union on Thursday, formally withdrawing plans to join the bloc. The letter (pdf) will have come as no surprise. Iceland had terminated negotiations aimed at bringing itself into union in 2013, when a new government came to power. One divisive issue that kept the two sides from reaching an…
The threat, made by the Greek justice minister and reported in the daily Kathimerini newspaper, has been supported by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who told the Greek parliament he would pursue the “very technical and sensitive” matter. Justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has reportedly called for “war reparations, the repayment of a forced loan and the…