Tracking Through iPhone Source

There are many better ways to trace through your code in any environment than with print statements.  If there’s not, you need to change jobs (or convince them to choose an environment that won’t waste all your time chasing bugs). Your first order of business should be to familiarize yourself with your debugger. However, there … Read more

Wood Sorrel

Spring is already on show in Houston.  A particularly warm day in February brought out the wood sorrel, which hangs around for a few months, showing itself on warm days.  There are so many species of Oxalis that I’m not even going to attempt to identify this one.  It does much better in the parts … Read more

Category in Page

I hacked into the page.php file, tested for the page I wanted to convert, and added the LOOP code from category.php file to run instead when it hit that page. I also had to reset the query when that occurred. The pages are kept in the wp_post table and their post_type=’page’, That’s how I found … Read more

Ain’t Gonna Play,… Sun City

My first exposure to the Sun City development north of Austin was via billboards in Austin in the mid 80s. They were really selling it up: lots of billboards. Of course, at the time, there was a Steven Van Zant protest song of the same name. I recall it protesting some gambling city being run … Read more