Cal Freitas

I am an Engineering Manager at PublicSquare. I am a Principal Front-End Engineer by trade. At Swarzy, I built Verses for Life and Psalmlist.

Seattle WordPress Meetup

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The Seattle WordPress community is thriving in recent months with the launch of the Seattle WordPress Meetup. The meetup began in the summer of 2010 as a place for anyone in the Seattle area.

People who attend this meetup and users group include business people, consultants, designers, developers, software engineers, and system administrators. We cover a variety of topics including theming, plugin development, WordPress tips & tricks, and SEO.

I developed and launched the Seattle WordPress Meetup site: wpseattle.com.

The site is powered by a combination of powerful tools:

With these tools, we hope to provide valuable resources and information to the community as well as being a demonstration of the capabilities of WordPress as a content management system, blogging platform, and social networking tool.

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jQuery Hack Attack in Seattle — Notes

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Today, Amazon hosted a jQuery Hack Attack in Seattle. John Resig, jQuery creator, provided the keynote presentation and contributed one of the open talks. Below, I include notes on the keynote regarding jQuery mobile browser suppoort and the three sessions I attended.

John Resig ~ “I want to give developers the smallest toolset they need to build the best sites possible.”

jQuery Mobile: Notes from John Resig’s Talk

Mobile JavaScript gains increasing importance as more and more smartphones with JavaScript support are shipped to consumers. jQuery intends to support the most popular mobile web browsers and devices.

One difficulty when defining what browsers and devices to support is gathering data regarding mobile browser marketshare and version information. Large sites such as Yahoo! have this information, but have not released it to the public. Typically, these sites see the statistics as a competitive advantage and as a result have not released the data to the public.

Resig currently gathers data regarding mobile browsers from StatCounter (web statics gathered from over 1 billion pageviews) and Gartner (device sales statistics).
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Installing, Configuring, and Using the XHP PHP Extension by Facebook

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Updated June 23, 2012 to add a doctype

Facebook announced the release of XHP yesterday. It is an extension for PHP which provides enhancements to the PHP language syntax and gives the language some convenient capabilities.

In this post I will provide you links to the essential sources of information about XHP, show some XHP sample code, and discuss the installation process for XHP on Ubuntu with Apache and PHP5.

The Essential Information
Download XHP at GitHub
How XHP Works
Building XHP
Configuring XHP
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