Almost Two Years Ago
Come May 2009, it’ll have been two years since I stopped doing installments. That’s what I called them; monthly graphical explorations on various themes. I made 5 illustrations every month, for six years. One of them looked like this:
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Flash Shorttags for Wordpress Plugin [Update: Retired]
Todays serving is another Wordpress plugin. It is written as part of my community service program and with its release, I hope to have paid back what I have taken from the open source community (damn you, GPL, and your “stay free” mantra).
In any case, this plugin is for the minimalists who needs to embed [...]
Comment Live Preview For Wordpress
On the topic of Wordpress plugins, I’d like to point out that I have another of those plugins which I honestly think deserves some love.
Textile Live Preview provides a realtime, JavaScript powered preview of your Textile powered comment. It’s plug and play (and you can test it in the comment area below). As opposed to [...]
Quote Comments Plugin For Wordpress [Updated March 2010]
This plugin adds a tiny link that says “Quote” on each comment on your posts. Click it, and the contents of the comment is copied to the comment area, wrapped in blockquote tags.
This plugin is now active on this website, so you can test just below in the comment area (provided that there are comments, [...]
Subscribed Commenters Plugin for Wordpress [Update]
This is an extremely simple one-purpose Wordpress plugin. What it does, is that if you use Subscribe to Comments, users subscribing to your posts will have a teeny bit of text show up next to their names: (subscribed).
Why would you want this? Well, in the past, you’d edit this snippet of text into your Wordpress [...]
It’s A Threaded Comment Nightmare (Of The Good Kind)
The weblog which you are now graciously reading has just been upgraded to feature threaded comments (so step out of your RSS reader and try it out). Incidentally, I’ve been yearning for threaded comments for years, so it’s nice to be able to strike that one off the list.
As part of the upgrade, I’ve had [...]
Wordpress 2.7 Admin Interface Usability Quick-Review
Blogging software and part CMS, Wordpress, has gotten a major overhaul from version 2.6 to the just-released 2.7. Besides some very neat new features such as threaded comments, the administration interface has gotten the most work. Dubbed “Crazyhorse”, this admin update is mostly good, tweaking and building on usability work that was done for version [...]
Quantum of Solace Mini-Review
Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
As James Bond seeks vengeance, he uncovers a secret organization known only as Quantum. As the mystery unravels, Bond finds himself teaming up with Camille who also seeks revenge.
Quantum of Solace is a delightful Bond film. It introduces/re-introduces the classic Bond Vodka-Martini drink, as well as the iconic gun-barrel sequence and even manages a nod [...]
The New Google Fascination With Theming
Well certainly it had to happen some time. Google has started theming their apps.
It’s already been part of iGoogle for a while and I’ll bet we’ll see this appear in Google Calendar soon enough as well. So why the sudden fascination with theming? Why I ask you, why?
Wait, I know this. It’s all based [...]
The Adblock Problem
This is just too delicious. Google is drafting a spec on how extensions may be added to Google Chrome (screenshot gallery). Specifically, the draft mentions the ability to add “content filters” such as Adblock.
Adblock is an extension to Firefox which, well, blocks ads. Add to the mix a filterset updater and your list of ads-to-block [...]