Dave Ross

Dave Ross

Lead Developer

Dave Ross

Dave brings extensive knowledge of PHP and WordPress development, database design, and AJAX, along with mad Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble skills. He has a degree in Computer Science from Chicago’s own Roosevelt University and a decade of experience in software development.

In his free time, Dave develops open source software, volunteers at a cat shelter, and tries to catch up on the 26 years of Doctor Who he missed the first time around. His Dave’s WordPress Live Search plugin provides the previews that appear when you search our site.

Dave’s Perspective

WordPress 2.9

We had some internal training Monday on the exciting new WordPress release. Version 2.9 introduces new features to make your blog more attractive and boost your SEO rankings.
Here are the highlights from the numerous changes that went into this release:
1. “Trash” status: No longer worry about accidentally deleting your posts, pages, and comments. The “delete”

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Back that thang up

A web design shop like ours generates gigabytes of files every month, and traditional backup solutions just weren’t cutting it anymore. Six months ago, we adopted a new approach to backups and we’ve really enjoyed the freedom it gave us.
“Who put 2 gigs of files on the dev server?!”, Mike would yell from his office.

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