Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
Note that this project is no longer maintained.
In a number of recent projects, I’ve been needing to provide an overlay of sorts over an entire page or a number of elements on a page. Unfortunately, most options ship with extra weight – they include support for modal dialogs or some type of lightbox overlay all of which was overkill for what I needed.
To that end, I ended up writing a lightweight plugin that makes adding overlays trivially easy. Continue reading
I just published a quick update to my Tipsy Social Icon widget:
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
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.
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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