Debugging tooltips

I use Bootstrap’s tooltip feature.  It certainly improves design from the default browser implementation, but it can be a pain to debug because it disappears as the element is inspected.  Forcing the ‘hover’ state does not do the trick either.  As a...

Cannot autoplay on Android

I have a radio app in development.  It works great within a desktop browser.  Unfortunately, it has problems on phones.  The biggest problem on Android is that the music would not autoplay when the page loaded. After debugging, I found that the ‘play’...

Benchmarks on WAMP 2.5

WAMPServer is the tool that I use to develop websites locally.  It is made up of three distinct technologies – Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I recently upgraded from WAMP 2.4 (Apache 2.4.4, MySQL 5.6.12, PHP 5.4.12) to WAMP 2.5 (Apache 2.4.9, MySQL 5.6.17, PHP...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...