About The Author
Aaron Jorbin is a Washington, DC based Web Developer who builds and manages custom websites, applications, and WordPress plugins. He strives to always build high quality experiences for all users of web applications.
He also writes and shares information about the past, his random opinions, and personal adventures.
Category Archives: Code
When you’re storing every transaction for 800 million users and handling more than 60 million queries per second, your database environment had better be something special. via Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale — Cloud Computing News. Facebook … Continue reading
Thoughts on Post Meta Boxes in WordPress
I’m generally of the opinion that the screen for adding content should be as simple as possible in a CMS. It’s one of the reasons I really like the new Distraction Free Writing in WordPress 3.2 (sneak peek if case … Continue reading
Barcamp News Innovation Philly Hackathon Project
Part of Barcamp News Innovation Philly is an open data hackathon. I wanted to do a live visualization of something and I wanted to use canvas. What I did is create a “Paint thrown against the wall” visualization of tweets tagged #bcniphilly. The … Continue reading
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Flot – sexy graphs created in JavaScript
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the DC jQuery User Group during an entire meetup dedicated to charts and graphs. Russel Heimlich presented on Google Charts and Chris Bannon presented on Wijmo while I had the honor to … Continue reading
Always check your diffs
One habit that I’ve gotten into that has saved me from looking like an idiot nearly as often is to always look at a diff before I commit. I don’t do this as much in Mercurial, but with SVN when … Continue reading
aaron.jorb.in 4.0
I ran aaron.jorb.in 3.0 (a thematic child theme) since Mar 23, 2010 and it was time for a change. In conjunction with my presentation at WordCamp Portland, I built this new twenty ten child theme. There are a couple features … Continue reading
Adding a twitter box to the Profile page in WordPress
I haven’t used AIM in years and I haven’t used Yahoo Messager in even longer. What I do use is twitter. Therefore, having a box in the WordPress admin for twitter name is better and with some code I wrote … Continue reading
