Apr 26th, 2010
by MeanDean.
I’m pleased to announce the initial release of my 2nd social media plugin, the Facebook Activity Widget Plugin for Wordpress. Simply put, it automates the display of a Facebook Activity Feed on the sidebar of your blog by making it a easy-to-configure widget.
For those who may not be aware of what the Facebook Activity Feed is, it is a ’social plugin’ displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your personal website and/or blog.
Apr 22nd, 2010
by MeanDean.
Facebook rocked the internet yesterday with 5 new plugins, one of which is an API for the Facebook Like Button. After reading about it and playing a bit with the Facebook’s Like Button generator, I decided what’s needed is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to easily configure the look-and-feel of the Facebook Like Button, and then automatically add it the beginning and/or the end of their posts.
Mar 26th, 2010
by MeanDean.
Learn how to use the CPAN Net::Twitter library harvest queries created with http://search.twitter.com.
Aug 3rd, 2009
by MeanDean.
As the dust settles from last week’s “Micro-Hoo!” partnership announcement, developers around the globe are beginning beg the question “what about my needs?”
Oct 6th, 2008
by MeanDean.
How do you quickly change the default
tags to
on widget sidebar titles without hacking into the core WordPress engine? Glad you asked, as below I’m going to explain techniques I used at blogJordan.com that demonstrate how find what needs to be edited in your current theme, and them some approaches in how to make the edits – including a global search and replace for the brave.
May 30th, 2008
by MeanDean.
Already demonstrating earlier this week how to block spambots and rogue spiders. Today I’m completing the lesson with a nice little bash script sample that can help you identify some of these non-browser ‘candidates’ by parsing your access logs and placing the results in an easy-to-read text file.
May 14th, 2008
by MeanDean.
Yes, I know, all cool programmers use Python these days – but to this old-school programmer, PERL is to my antiquated PC what GWBasic was to first computer at work back in 1983. That is a nice little tool to get things done, like identify a list of IP addresses by country – fast.