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May 5th, 2008 How to Profit with the Open Source Community

I love open source software. I love the idea of open source software. Involving people in the development process that would not otherwise get the chance. Tapping into talent that would not normally be available to you. Best of all, giving everyone the opportunity to benefit others as they benefit themselves. [...]

April 30th, 2008 A Marketing Strategy You Can Believe In

Do you remember in the good old days, when you went to the market down the street because you knew the owner, John, and his kids went to school with yours? When you went to the mechanic across town, because you new that Dave wouldn’t ever charge you for something you didn’t need? [...]

April 28th, 2008 Creative Brainstorming Meeting

Over the weekend I had James Pearson (of Surviving America and Acholi Beads) and Steven Homestead staying at my house. I couldn’t help but take advantage of this abundance of creativity I suddenly found at my disposal. As a developer rather than a designer, I find the creative process to be mysterious, possibly [...]

April 15th, 2008 WordPress 2.5 Shortcodes

Warning: Shortcodes are affected by Trac ticket 6444, which was fixed in WordPress 2.5.1.
First I touched on the topic in my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Then I whined a little about the tickets relating to them, and eventually I released my Google Maps Plugin that uses them. In the end, WordPress’s new [...]

April 14th, 2008 Google Maps for Wordpress

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Warning: This plugin was affected by Trac ticket 6444, which was fixed in WordPress 2.5.1, so get 2.5.1!
The Google Maps for WordPress plugin allows you to easily insert Google maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to [...]

April 14th, 2008 Wordpress Twitter Widget

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My latest plugin is a sidebar widget that handles Twitter feeds. It’s true that you could just point and RSS widget at one of the Twitter feeds, but you end up with the whole tweet (I honestly don’t know what they are called) as a link, @replies don’t function, etc. Twitter [...]

April 5th, 2008 J!nx

I don’t often post on things like this, but J!nx clothing is great, so I had to take a minute to talk about it. If you are a true geek, you have to check them out, it’s like the holy grail of clothing stores for us! They also carry a clothing for a [...]

April 2nd, 2008 WordPress 2.5: First Impressions

WordPress 2.5 was recently released. I’m not your average WordPress user, I develop plugins, test the upcoming releases, and even contribute to the core when I can. Why do I say all this? I hope it will give you an idea where I’m coming from, as I share my first impressions of [...]

March 28th, 2008 Google Maps API

I started working some with the Google Maps API, and it’s pretty nice. The documentation is decent, the examples are good, etc. I realized that I’ve come to expect this from Google, so I wanted to take the time instead to point out that this is an exceptional product. For example, I [...]

January 28th, 2008 Free Template: Minimalist

Minimalist is an extremely light weight, configurable template, with no images at all! It’s completely fluid, so no matter what the user’s screen width, you don’t waste any space, browser font resizing is completely supported, and it is source-ordered. It includes stylesheets to display main content on the left or right, as well [...]

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