Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
After sharing the widget on a couple of sites (such as Forrst), I received a great, candid feedback.
As such, I just published a quick update to my Tipsy Social Icon widget: Continue reading
I’ve been doing some work with the SharpBox Libraries for cloud-based programming and kept coming up with build errors within Visual Studio.
Specifically, I had added the libraries as references in my project but the compilation process kept failing on all references to the SharpBox AppLimit namespace. Continue reading
This weekend, I spent sometime toying around with the Google URL Shortener API.
I wrote a small demo application you can browse and fork via GitHub. It’s by no means complete, but shows the basic shorten and expand operations.
You’ll need a Google API key, a basic LAMP installation and basic familiarity with PHP’s cURL library.
Here’s some of my favorite stuff from around the from the past week:
Late last year, I released SlideNote For jQuery and its WordPress plugin counterpart.
Over the past few months, I’ve received some really good feedback and features requests and have tried to implement the most popular. I’ve just released the second version of the plugin.
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