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Developers these days are finding themselves trying to reach a growing mobile computing audience and it may be their greatest challenge to date. Today’s Web browser is a pretty well known commodity on the Internet, but “traditional” Web browsing is no longer the primary game in town, and hasn’t been for a while. Taking a peek at any Website’s traffic logs will quickly outline new masses of users seeking out text, video and multimedia content using new and different tools such as the iPhone. Devices such as mobile smart phones, laptops, netbooks and the growing popularity of tablet computers (like the iPad) in the consumer market are forcing today’s developers to widen their project scope. More and more questions are asked like,”How will my site look on a mobile phone?” or “How will my application behave when accessed by a handheld device?”…

I went to my first Wordpress NYC Meetup yesterday, and I was pretty excited about it. It was serendipity that my work load started to ease up when this meetup was scheduled, and I wanted to hear directly from others what they were up to with Wordpress. Since I’ve had my head down the last few months fine tuning this blog, I also wanted to know about issues I might run into down the line with the pending release of Wordpress 3.0 coming later this year. At the time of this writing it’s currently in its second beta and a lot is still in flux. This topic was a hot one and it was reported 94 souls braved the rain and schlepped it to mid-town NYC to get some insight into what’s coming next for Wordpress fans….

When I was working on my recent post about a duplicate description meta tags bug that were showing up in my WordPress theme, I ran across this site. SEOJeff.com is a good site to visit if you ever want to try to understand what an SEO consultant actually does, and Jeff supplies some great tutorials [...]

My friend Kemar turned me on to this list of jQuery plugins maintained by Marc Grabanski self-proclaimed "Jack of all trades in Web development." He took it upon himself to go through the jQuery plugins repository, and he picked out what he felt was noteworthy or most useful in his eyes. It’s a pretty good [...]

Recently, I was looking into spicing up my comments section with plug-ins. I was inspired by the folks over at inkrebels.com and these posts in particular, “20 typical mistakes made by new bloggers and 8 types of posts that get maximum comments. I started looking for ways to make this blog more comment-friendly. I also [...]

Jeff Star over at Perishablepress.com produced a great tutorial using a custom image gallery as an example of how to use custom fields. This helped me visualize how to approach my bookmarks section of this blog. This tutorial combined with a trip over to the WordPress Codex section on custom fields, this entry from Smashing [...]

If you’re customizing WordPress, sometimes you’ll run into a case where you want to exclude a category from your RSS feed. For example – if you want to single out that category into it’s own feed and hide it from the main feed. Jaypee Habaradas over at Jaypeeonline.net has a simple tutorial that walks you [...]