Author: Paul

Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

04 May 2014 As was pointed out last week, Google Chrome has been experimenting with hiding the URL from the browser. Recently, Jake Archibald, a member of the Chrome team, wrote a piece talking about how this change is great for security. I don’t think it is great for anything. This is what the current implementation looks like: As you see it is hiding the complete URLs here in favor of showing just the domain name. URLs are the building blocks of the web. Every website contains hundreds or thousands of URLs. Every page has a unique URL so that you can identify it and share it with other people. There is a reason they have always been front and center in all web browsers. Call me cynical, but…

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Chrome’s experiment of hiding the URL is awful

Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Although WordPress is already an SEO-friendly publishing platform, there is always room for improvement. One of the best free plugins available is the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. This plugin has had over eight million downloads and is designed to improve your website’s SEO by taking care of technical optimization and allowing you to write more SEO-friendly content. Here we will take a look at some of the key features and benefits. Key features The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast allows you to control your website’s Meta and link elements. Using the plugin, you can choose which pages Google shows in its search results. The plugin also adds rel=”next” and rel=”prev” link elements to the head section of your archives automatically…

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Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

in Music | May 4th, 2014

Bach wrote 1080 compositions during his lifetime. And now thanks to the new and certainly ambitious All of Bach web site, you can eventually watch the Netherlands Bach Society (founded in 1921) perform each and every one of those compositions. The site features six performances so far (see below), which means there’s only another 1074 to go. A new Bach recording will go live every Friday. So you mark your calendars and check in weekly for the next 20 years. Thanks to Erik for sending this our way! First recordings: Related Content: A Big Bach Download: All of Bach’s Organ Works for Free

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All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online

Pressing The Button

May 5, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The Mytro Project is almost over. Over the past few months I’ve been writing about my experience crowdfunding and self-publishing a YA fantasy book called Mytro. After running an Indiegogo campaign and coming out with almost $20,000, I’m at the point where I have to start delivering books. When I started writing Mytro I wanted to go the traditional publishing route. I sent it to two agents who, I presume, didn’t trust it to sell enough units and, for all I know, they could still be right. However, I didn’t listen to them and so far I’ve been successful. Here’s what I did to prepare the book over the past few months. I started by rereading what I had written …

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Pressing The Button

WordPress Cheat Sheet For Commonly Used Template Functions

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you find yourself constantly referring to the Codex or searching for a commonly used template function, consider bookmarking this WordPress Cheat Sheet created by Trevor Niemi. Launched in February of this year, Niemi created the site after seeing a pixelated image of the same information published to Reddit. When asked how often the site is updated, Niemi says he’s actively updating it when Codex changes occur and when a good suggestion is submitted by a user. The cheat sheet has a listing of functions you can copy and paste into your work. Several of the functions are linked to their corresponding Codex pages for more information and general usage. There’s also a PDF link making it easy to save and view the…

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WordPress Cheat Sheet For Commonly Used Template Functions