At the DC Tech Hackathon, I had access to the Dun & Bradstreet Direct 2.0 API. Their documentation isn’t great, so I wrote a quick Python example of authenticating and requesting data (also available as a Gist):
When you create a WordPress network (multisite) in subdomain mode, WordPress recommends that you remove www from the site URL, so the network (site #1) is served from the zone apex, and other sites are served from first-level subdomains. For … Continue reading
Inspired by a Hacker News comment, I wrote a Python script that queries the KFC website for store locations, finds the optimal tour with the Concorde cutting-plane-based exact TSP solver, and generates a KML file that can be plotted in … Continue reading
How to localize both Genesis Framework and a custom child theme, without the risk of framework upgrades removing the gettext catalogs. This example covers localizing a theme in Spanish (Mexico), but the process is the same for other languages and … Continue reading
Since Amazon S3 supports CORS, you can make AJAX calls to a bucket from any domain. This example loads an alert message and conditionally updates the DOM, but the configuration is the same for any GET request (I haven’t played … Continue reading