Stephen Yeargin

Whenever a Web service that I use changes formats, I seldom complain. Facebook has done it twice in the last few years, first introducing the stalker-friendly News Feed and more recently with its design overhaul. As long as I can be convinced that the changes are intended to make the site more user-friendly and aesthetically [...]

I am starting to realize that jQuery and ThickBox are making me look like a lot better of a Web developer at work than I really am. Then again, who says you have to write every last line of code in order to get the job done?

Fall has finally arrived. A lot of southerners lovingly call this “football weather”, because it is just cold enough to require long sleeves but not the kind of icy feel of December. The afternoons tend to climb in the low to mid-80s, so versatile wardrobe selections have to be added to the daily routine. My [...]

I did not have much luck writing tonight. I stared at a blank Smultron document for about eight minutes before relenting. I do recommend the application if use a Mac. It is great for coding.

This is not a new article by any stretch (WordPress has been on Subversion for quite some time), but it might help a couple of people I know that use WordPress but have a lousy time keeping it up to date. I tried to use my own experience with moving to Subversion as the basis [...]

Just a quick note to anyone who has visited this site since May 26 using Microsoft Internet Explorer: Why did you leave me hanging? Of course I am kidding, but those 40 percent or so of visitors were likely confused by the utter mess this site had become since my last theme update.
The CSS validated. [...]

My wife is of the opinion that if my Mac mini is slow, it probably has to do with what all I have loaded on it. Fair enough, as I am using a (mostly) unmodified version of the default personal Web server for testing purposes. I have resisted installing MAMP because there is a perfectly [...]

My wife has a fairly respectable library of novels, reference books, textbooks and literary compilations on the two bookshelves in our office. The only books that I have on my bookshelf are about Web design and programming. That is the section I typically make a bee-line for the moment we walk into a bookstore. As [...]

Here is the product of the Memorial Day weekend: a new WordPress theme. The theme takes some of the same elements in my “Nashvegas” cityscape and puts them in a much brighter setting. I called it “GoGreen” for a somewhat obvious reason.
This is my first crack at using a CSS framework (Blueprint) to help me [...]

I use the Bad Behavior plugin to take the proverbial legs out from under comment spammers and then have Akismet to clean up the rest. However, even a few days before my upgrade to WordPress 2.5, my login stopped working. The only way to get into my Dashboard is to disable the plugin remotely.
There is [...]