Archive for 2009
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
So far, you've got a nice, browsable archive of your registered users thanks to Members List, with each user's profile being more or less infinitely customizable through the Author template. Plus users can upload their own photos. Naturally, the next step is to extend user profiles with own custom user meta.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I’ve used Nateomedia.com’s WP Snap plugin for quite awhile now, whether it was to sort through encyclopedia entries, organize archives of contributor bios, or simulate a dictionary in WordPress. On Nathan Olsen’s website, one commenter mentioned how he had managed to make WP Snap organize an archive of bios, but sorted by last, middle, and then first name. Unfortunately, the sample code the commenter provided got mangled by Nate’s comments sanitizer, so I decided to muck through the plugin myself and hack together a solution.
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
So this is what we're going to do: First, we'll write a quick local PHP script that parses the RSS feed of your blog, to get the latest blog post's URL and title. Then, we'll save that information to a .txt file, which you will set as your signature in Thunderbird. Finally, we'll write a .vb file that will open your script, update the .txt file, and then close itself when your computer boots.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Every once in awhile, a movie comes along that changes our expectations of a genre. These rare events are invaluable to a genre like science fiction, which is constantly belittled for being intellectually "sub par" to its non-genre counterparts. Sci-fi flicks are often dismissed for contributing little to the discussion except escapism, flashy action sequences, and misogynist stereotypes. But good science fiction is anything but escapist, no matter how many chitinous extraterrestrials or head-exploding laser cannons are involved. What does a bone-chillingly excellent film like District 9 have in its gritty essence that is capable of waking us up from the coma of ho-hum sci-fi/fantasy films that have plagued 2009? District 9 works because the film is not the sum of its surface-level social messages.
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
The Editor-in-Chief of Fringe Magazine, Lizzie Stark, approached me to redesign their online journal. I built their new site on top of WordPress, giving the staff a CMS to enter content and a new look.
