Author Archives: Kenny Katzgrau

Brief but intense “holy shit” moments have been hitting me quite a bit in the last couple weeks. For the last 5 years, my social networking experience has largely consisted of Facebook, and I took it for granted as an application that was just really good at what it did. Maybe that’s even what Zuck [...]

After almost two years since the last major release of WPSearch, WPSearch 2 will be released this weekend at Wordcamp NYC. WPSearch 2 has been the highest rated search plug-in in the WordPress repository, with much thanks to the bug reporters, testers, and donations along the way. WPSearch 2 was built for WordPress 3, and [...]

I really can’t stand hard-coding URLs in the views or controllers of my application — and I’m sure most other people can’t either. Here’s an extension for the CodeIgniter Router class that I wrote that gives you a nice way to write routes that are reversible and also have the ability to take parameters. <?php [...]

A common annoyance in the world of AJAX is the ol’ cross-domain request error. That is, a script sitting on domain1.example.com can’t make AJAX calls to domain2.example.com. This is in place for the sake of security, but sometimes developers have legitimate reasons to do so. A common workaround is writing a server-side script that will [...]