WP Grins isn’t a plugin I use myself, so it’s been languishing a bit. I took a couple of hours this morning and updated it. There are a couple of changes, all good ones I think: It is now a “pure plugin” – it no longer requires any modifications of core or theme files. It…
January, 2007
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I’ve updated my WP Unformatted plugin to be compatible with WordPress 2.1 (and also updated the README to the new format). Thanks to DF for letting me know about the incompatibility. The download is available on my WordPress Plugins page. If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support…
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I’m getting lots of folks asking me if my plugins are compatible with WordPress 2.1. I’ve been using WordPress 2.1 on this site since November 2006, and I use most of my own plugins. If you try something and it doesn’t work with WordPress 2.1, you can let me know directly or open a thread…
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Somewhere along the way, it seems that WordPress started requiring a space or line break after a smiley key in order for the key to be properly replaced with the smiley image. For example: 😆 , said the hyena. instead of: :lol:, said the hyena. The first has a space after the “: l o…
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My Wii arrived today – I plan to set it up tonight. I’m not a gamer, but the gameplay on the Wii intrigued me enough I wanted to get one. Any tips for me?
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I watched Heroes1 on TiVo while I ate lunch today. This is the first time I watched the show on a TV. I kept hearing friends talk about the show, so I caught up on the previous episodes on the computer via NBC’s streaming video2 over the last few weeks. I think offering the shows…
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Get it while it’s hot. 🙂
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I’ve posted a quick update to the Google Calendar Alarm-It script (add alarms to Google Calendar iCalendars) that fixes a small bug. The first event in the calendar was not getting an alarm, now it does (thanks Stephen). Check out the source of the script for the settings and usage instructions. The download is on…
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I just spent an hour shoveling, again. It’s still coming down, so I’m sure I’ll to do it again tomorrow. I’m quite ready for spring.
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Want to Lose Weight? Eat like an Ape! Colbert on the iPhone – double finger wag! Another Reason To Get Out Of Iraq iPhone and the Dog Ears User Experience Model Plugins/Plugin Compatibility – WordPress Codex – must-read if you’re a WP plugin developer. Devin Reams.com – It’s Called WordPress – heh. AirPort 4.1 Help:…
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One of the other changes I made to the King Design web site recently is the addition of selected content from this blog in various places. At the moment, I’m pulling in recent posts in my Tasks Pro™ category into the sidebars of the Tasks Pro™, Tasks™ and Tasks Jr. pages, and the recent posts…
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Here’s a classic groaner for ya… Laura Bush bought George a parrot for his birthday. She told Dick Cheney, “The bird is so smart! George has already taught him to mispronounce over 200 words!” “Wow, that’s pretty impressive,” Cheney said. “But you realize that he just says the words. He doesn’t understand what they mean”.…
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Crossing the line between favors and actually doing paid contract work for a friend can be tough decision. Once money and deliverables get involved, it can definitely introduce new issues and points of contention to your friendship. Before you agree to do the work, you better be darn sure you can deliver. 🙂 Steve O’Grady…
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With the 1.7 release, I’ve moved the primary home of my Tasks Pro™ product from: http://www.taskspro.com to: http://crowdfavorite.net/tasks-pro/ I thought it might be interesting (instructive?) to review the reasons for this, and how I got into the situation in the first place. 🙂 When I launched alexking.org back in 2002, I put up some of…