Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Posts introducing, updating, and covering various projects to which I’ve contributed or that I maintain.
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.
Tipsy Social Icons is a WordPress widget that makes it easy to display a variety of popular social icons along with a Facebook-style tooltips. The widget ships with a couple of options for icon sizes and for visual effects.
Check it out…
Thanks to a number of you that are currently using the plugin, I’ve received a number of emails and comments mentioning some minor issues that have been discovered.
I’ve just released the latest version of the SlideNote For WordPress plugin.
When I released SlideNote, I received a lot of feedback but the number one question I had was is this available for WordPress?
At the time of release, it wasn’t but I’m proud to release the first version of SlideNote For WordPress.
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