April 27th, 2005
With the number of RSS feeds that I read nearing 190, I'd like to point out a couple, recent, 'acquisitions' that I've enjoyed, in no particular order.
- Cinematical - A weblog completely dedicated to independent films, film festivals, upcoming movies, and actor/actress news. It's exciting.
- Grahams' Delicious Links - Grahams has only just started using his delicious account, and he's already digging up really fun links. I get the feeling that we read a lot of the same sites, but that only means we have a lot of the same interests.
- Holovaty - I hope this guy never stops cranking out his amazing scripts.
- Populicious - I've been reading this one for a month or two now - it's absolutely essential. You'll never miss anything cool again.
- The Map Room - The latest Maps/Mapping news. A fun read.
And some more personal ones:
- Indeed.com - Set up custom search RSS feeds for local jobs, based on keywords. I'm on top of all the local Perl jobs the second they come out.
- Recent Flickr Comments - All the recent activity on your Flickr photos.
- Newsgator Related - In Newsgator you can set up custom searches (concerning a URL, for example). Now, everytime someone links to my site, I can check them out and comment right away.
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April 4th, 2005
I've updated the web site to use Wordpress and essentially duplicate the functionality of the old site (with some nice new features). In order to do this, I looked to a couple, handy, plugins:
- WP-Tags - As a warning, there's a couple modules with this name, this particular one happens to work the best. You can easily apply tags to any post or page in Wordpress and display relevant tag information on the sidebar of your site.
- Touched - This plugin provides in-line post editing capabilites, using Ajax. I'm going to tweak it some to fit my needs, but it's an excellent start.
The rest of the modifications that I made are (currently) pretty hackish. For example, in Wordpress, you can only browse by category (or date, or tag) for the whole web log, not for just a particular category. I had to go through and modify all the functions to display current post information based upon the active category, instead of globally. Additionally, I wanted tags to be much more useful then they currently were - in the RSS feeds for the web site, for example, I provide multiple categories (one for each tag) - I had to modify the code to handle that. If anyone is interested in the changes that I made, and using it for their web log, let me know and I'll see what I can provide.
I'm still in the process of synchronizing my del.icio.us links with my links page, but that's not entirely urgent.
Update: By the way, the design is still very rough - I'm just running off of a template that I found - it'll soon be something much better, I hope.
Tags: programming, php, site, blogs, wordpress
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