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While doing some WordPress customization recently, I ran into a problem forcing lower case output for the month headers in my blog archives. It seems like a simple task but it turns out the WordPress templating engine prevents you from returning any strings from functions while within a template. You can use all the PHP you want, and call any function you want, but the functions in the end work by echo'ing out a result, rather than returning it. This seems like a pretty good security move, but it turns out to be pretty annoying when you're used to object oriented code and you want to do something simple like make an outputted date string into lower ... (more...)

So my friend told me that it would be a good idea to keep a blog. Blogging has always seemed to be sort of a strange thing to me, like people talking to themselves. But he said it would be good to show potential clients what I've been up to, and also to keep records for myself of my learning process. Sort of a combination of talking to myself and to other people. Well, here goes, I doubt if anyone is reading this, but if you are, I hope you enjoy it.