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Entries from July 2006

My first WordPress-Vox Crossposter fanmail

July 30th, 2006 · · WordPress Plugin

Big yay to Brandice for sending me my first piece of fanmail! Receiving positive feedback is nice; almost as nice as getting a paycheck.

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Spreading the word about my Wordpress plugin

July 30th, 2006 · · PHP, Web Development, WordPress Plugin

Since I’m so proud of my Wordpress plugin, I figured I’d go ahead and spread the word about it in the hopes of everybody in the world (that has a Wordpress blog and a Vox blog) would use my plugin.
I’ve posted stories to Digg, Reddit, Netscape (not that anybody reads that crap anyway), Shoutwire and [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: Vox Crossposter

July 29th, 2006 · · Blogging, General, PHP, Web Development, WordPress Plugin

I did it, I created my first WordPress plugin! I am one happy mofo! It was very easy relative to how difficult I thought it was going to be. I only started writing my plugin two days ago!
My plugin is much like the LiveJournal crossposter I use in that the output is [...]

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Wordpress - Vox Crossposter

July 26th, 2006 · · PHP, Web Development, XML

If you’re looking for a WordPress-Vox Crossposter, there isn’t one that I can find anyway.  I am currently working on creating one. 
There is a WordPress-LiveJournal crossposting plugin available here (plain-text view of source here).  It was written by Evan Broder.  It works great and is an awesome plugin.  I’m modelling my cross-poster after the [...]

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The Perfect Popup

July 25th, 2006 · · JavaScript, Web Development

This is a great article on creating pop ups: Perfect Popups. The code is provided and the sample popup is pretty cool. I think the nicest feature of this is the auto-resizing.
For shits and giggles, check out the “contact me” page on this guys website. He’s a bit anal don’t ya [...]

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