Here are the slides from my talk at the PHP meetup on 7.13.2010.
WordPress 3 and WordPress Plugin Development
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Desktop Tower Defense
Check out Desktop Tower Defense if you haven’t tried it already. It is quite fun and addicting. It is a flash puzzle game whose goal is to stop the enemies (creeps) from getting to the other side of the board by building mazes with different types of towers.
Two places to find it online. The website Kongregate.com has more of a multiplayer aspect to it, because you can chat with other people on the website after signing up for an account. The other place is the author’s home page, handdrawngames.com.
If you do try it out and get a decent score playing at least the Medium difficulty you can save your score to a group of other people. My friends and I have been saving our scores under the group name “llbbl”. Feel free to add your scores to that group. You can see our group and other group scores here.
How to add people on Flickr
- Go to Flickr.com
- Do you have a previous Flickr account or yahoo email address? If so, click on the Sign In link in the upper right part of the page. You may also click here to goto the sign in page. Skip to step 4 in these directions.
- If you do not have a Flickr account or Yahoo email address, click on the pink Sign up! button on the right.
You may also click here to goto the sign up page. - Now that you are logged into Flickr, you can add people as a contacts. Under the Contacts menu there is a link for “People Search”.
Another way to add people is if they send you a link to their account. For instance, if you want to add me, go here:
http://www.flickr.com/people/llbbl/relationship/
If I am a friend or family you can check the boxes, otherwise click the Ok button.
- That is all there is to it. If you added me as a contact I will be notified and all you have to do is wait for me to reciprocate.
a. On the “Sign in to Yahoo!” page click the “Sign Up” link in the lower right part of the page
b. Fill in all the form fields, choosing a Yahoo ID!
c. Click the I agree button after “reading” their Terms of Service. If you entered an Alternate Email, be sure to check that email account and click on the link to verify the alternate email address.
d. Click the Continue to Yahoo! Flickr Button. If you don’t want spam from Yahoo you might also click “Edit Marketing Preferences” and uncheck all the boxes.
e. If there is a security warning, click continue
f. Click the “CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT” button after choosing a Flickr screen name
g. Click the Flickr Logo or the Explore Flickr Link.
Diggable WordPress Plugin
Diggable is a plugin for WordPress that adds Digg This buttons to websites. This will make it easier for your website visitors to submit content while it also allows them to see the Digg count for content that has already been submitted.
Features
General Features
- Admin Menu with options for button placement and customization
- No template modification, so you aren’t required to have any programming knowledge
- Buttons placed at the end of the content post and only visible if you load the page for a particular post
- There are options to display the buttons on pages and posts and on the front page of the website
- You can also select between the compact and normal version of the button. Currently the display options are basic but will be expanded soon.
Download
Support
The Sociable and Gregarious code helped a lot with development, so thanks goes out to Peter Harkins. Let me know what you think.
Favorite Place Online Poll
I am testing out a free polls service from PollDaddy to see how I like it and so I thought I would make something generic for people to vote on. I saw this on another blog and thought I would check it out. What do you think about the service?
Update: I removed the javascript poll because it was slowing down page loads. If you are still interested in taking the poll CLICK HERE.
I moved the original poll to the bottom, after the jump.
Please vote for the Parent company so for instance if your favorite place online is using Google Reader than vote for Google. Another example would be using Skype which is owned by eBay or Flickr which is owned by Yahoo. I think you get the idea! Thanks for voting.
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WordPress 2.0.6 Released
It is a good idea to upgrade, as is usually the case because it includes an important security fix. Download the latest version of here. More information on the release can be found here. Installation / Upgrade help. Buy a wordpress T-shirt!
An important note is that this is the last release before the 2.1 version is out so if your a plugin developer it would be a good idea to make sure your plugin is compatible with 2.1 when it comes out.
Are Social Todo Lists a Good Thing?
I have been using Tadalists by 37signals to keep track of stuff that I need to do with various things. It is free to use and quite useful. They did a good job as usual implementing AJAX and RSS into their webtool.
The stuff that I need to do I find to be personal. I doubt most people are interested and there are probably some whom are that I would rather they didn’t. Tadalists allow you to selectively allow people to access a list or available to anyone.
Meet the MySpace of Todo lists. I happen to come across 43things and 43places the other day and today I signed up to check it out. 43things is social todo list where people to try to collectively come up with their life’s aspirations. 43places is similar and has to do with where you live and places you want to visit.
So I thought it would be funny to add this to 43things, “Make a list of things I want to do with my life without actually doing any of them” since I think this website is a big timewaster like MySpace rather of an actual productive tool used by professionals.
If you have an account on 43 things make sure you add “Make a list of things I want to do with my life without actually doing any of them” to your list because it would be hilarious if that was the most popular thing on their website!
CSS Tab Designer Software
CSS Tab Designer works for WinXP. It will greatly help the aspiring web developers in their efforts at creating CSS tabs. It comes with a number of examples that you can customize to look like your own.
CSS Based Forums
Smashing magazine gathered examples of styling forms using CSS. There are a couple of ones listed that actually look pretty nice. I wouldn’t mind using them on my projects in the future.
Recent Developments
Scoble Interviews the Google Reader Team. I have been using google reader recently because my Sage firefox extension doesn’t work very well with the Yahoo Del.icio.us Firefox extension. Flock works pretty good as a RSS reader also.
Overfishing is a serious problem. Scientists said that there “will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study”. With an estimated 50 years of fish and 50-100 years of Oil and Gas it is going to be very interesting for our children. Will there have anything left?
Now on to some lighter news. All the hockey fans will be happy to know they now can watch every NHL hockey game will be available online at google video.
Music fans will be happy to know that Napster is giving away a free download every day via their website. Read more about it at lifehacker.