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San Francisco To Do List

Brian — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:47:12 +0000

With my recent move to San Francisco I’ve gotten a ton of advice on places to go and things to do. Figured I’d keep it all in one place for quick on-the-go reference (and so I can check off the ones I’ve done!).

Cultural

Palace of Fine Arts

Food

Blue (try the pot pie and mac & cheese)
2223 Market
Tartine’s (ham and cheese sandwich “like sex”)

Misc. Places/Sights

Ferry Building
Garden Court inside Palace Hotel
under the dome at City Hall

Driving / Day Trips

49 mile drive

Thrift Stores

Thrift Town (in the Mission)
Out of the Closet

Inline links for Wordpress category pages

Brian — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:35:45 +0000

As I was developing my online portfolio, I wanted to create a “single-page portfolio”-type view so visitors could quickly see all my work in a particular category on one page. Each portfolio item is a Wordpress post, and they’re rather large, with screenshots and sometimes multiple images, so I needed a way to indicate more content below, and to make it cleaner I wanted to avoid a lot of scrolling. I decided that a simple inline link to the next post on the page would be cleanest.

Unfortunately WordPress doesn’t come with such a function out-of-the-box; after much searching and head-scratching, I figured it out:

Next ↓

Ultimately it’s very simple – the PHP in the above snippet displays the post id of the next post (which is, duh, the current_post + 1). This PHP is inserted into an inline link within the WordPress Loop and viola! The link created jumps to the next one on the page.

I added a little more logic to the page – the last item on the page doesn’t need a link like this, so for that one I created a link back to the top of the page.

Hope this helps anyone searching for a similar solution!

Barack Obama sighted in Puerto Rico

Brian — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:29:19 +0000

While eating some delicious mofongo in San Juan last week (at a restaurant whose name I unfortunately can’t remember), I couldn’t help but notice the striking resemblance the woman in the wall mural had to Barack Obama. Coincidence or homage?