While in the process of doing some HTML emails recently I had some issues with Outlook. Stinky, sneaky Outlook. I learned a few little techniques though that are worth sharing. Only show this on Outlook First and foremost, only show the content between the conditionals on Outlook. <!--\[if gte mso 9\]></pre> <div class="only on outlook"></div> <!\[endif\]--> Don’t show this on Outlook (v1) Anything with the style mso-hide: all will be hidden on Outlook.

I recently found the WP-CLI library and have been investigating ways I can integrate it into my workflow. I should note here that we use shared hosting extensively. Ideally the preferred solution would be to use a true migration tool. This is not always possible with shared hosting. To use the tool the following commands would be issued: migrate_wordpress.sh dev production This command would pull the latest version of the wordpress database from the production server.

I spent a bit of time today customising my RSSOwl setup to make it more to my liking. I now have it looking like this: That’s one long reader with all my feeds. Here’s how I did it. Select View -> Layout -> Newspaper Deselect View -> Toolbars -> Feed Toolbar Deselect View -> Status Right Click Main Toolbar and select Customise Toolbar Delete everything except New, Update All, Mark Read, Mark All Read, Search (or whatever is your preference) Right Click Main Toolbar and select Lock Toolbar Click Search, do a search for all titles not containing something impossible (eg asjdlfjkasdfkdaj) Save search (I called mine “All News”) Select the newly created “All News” category from your feeds (More details on this here: http://tutorial.

I recently started using Axure as my primary wireframing application. I’ve tried a couple of other solutions in the past, such as balsamiq and Adobe Illustrator. There’s a good article here which discusses some of the other alternatives: http://www.creativebloq.com/wireframes/top-wireframing-tools-11121302 My own criteria for selection were: No web apps While I love cloud based solutions for some stuff, for my core apps I loathe anything that requires connectivity to use. If I have my laptop, I should be able to do my work, regardless of whether I have access to the internet.

Google Reader is going the way of the dodo. I am/was an active Reader user. Mostly from the browser while I had some spare minutes I would dip and read some of the latest news. The news hast left me somewhat wary of online alternatives. There have been quite a few mentioned: http://www.newsblur.com/ http://www.feedly.com/ http://www.netvibes.com/ https://www.pulse.me/ While all of these seem perfectly reasonable, it’s all coming back to the same issue for me.