Archive for February, 2007

SNAP Contest ! – vote for me !

When I installed snap I mentioned that it’d be really cool if they could make it work with site advisor…

cool is if it could be plugged into mcafee site advisor so that users could see if it’s a safe link before clicking it.

well last night I recieved an e-mail about snap running an Idea’s contest. How’s that for cool, my idea is in the competition… vote for me !

links for 2007-02-24

bbCode plugin for bbPress

I’ve ported the bbCode Plugin for Wordpress by Jeff Moore to bbPress, seems to work fine; not all the bbCode is marked up as it’s not allowed by default with bbPress, I plan to fix that in version 0.2, but for now Enjoy !

Download bbCode Plugin for bbPress

Installation is simple in the current implementation of bbpress, just rename bbpress_bbcode.txt to bbpress_bbcode.php and place in your my-plugins directory (See bbpPress documentation for full details.)

This plugin has been tested on v0.75 & 1.0-Alpha so hopefully will work on anything in the middle.

links for 2007-02-14

Root Cookie WordPress – Plugin updated !

UPDATE: This Plugin has been updated, see please the new post, thanks.

Unless there’s a security risk, I’m always slow to upgrade my blog to the latest & greatest WP, the reason is plugins, when there’s a major revision update, plugins cause problems, so it’s usually best to wait for the maintainers to fix them before upgrading.

Anyway, I started to test the upgrade, and realised that I had a plugin that didn’t work, and yes you guessed it, it was the one I wrote ! – DOH !

It appears that v2.1 was more fussy about pluggable functions, but a quick fix and it’s done, so I give you…

Root Cookie, Version: 1.1

Standard wordpress plugin rules apply, save as root-cookie.php, stick it in your wp-content/plugins directly and activate, log-out (or clear your cookies) and when you log in you’ll get a cookie with the full domain path… happy days !

Nokia N800 – Waiting for SatNav

I’ve been watching the progress of the “Nokia Internet Tablet” for a while now, it 1st caught my eye as it uses gnome rendering type stuff for the graphical front end, and the backend is some linux (debian?) embedded device, so the availability of an off the shelf linux PDA for a self confessed linux nut is a dream come true !

I’ve not brought on yet, firstly because my gadget fund is low (saving for a PS3.. probably) and mainly because there were no “off the shelf” GPS solutions, since most open source projects are US based, I didn’t want to mess about with trying to get something to work in the UK… importing maps, different blue-tooth issues, blah blah, you know the deal.

Anyway, I got lost the other day, and since I refuse to pay for a dedicated GPS device, £300 (for a good one) seems a lot of money when the same money will buy you a good PDA and I’d get sooo much more use from it… This getting lost incident reminded me that the nokia n800 was launched recently, and that must have a GPS solution by now (the n770 is old)…. BEHOLD …

Nokia N800

Pic Nokia Navigation Kit for Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
Turn the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet into a convenient personal navigation system.

Nokia are answering my wishes… the detail says it’ll be available this quarter soo, fingers crossed I can clear a gadget fund with the wife and OH HAPPY DAYS !

UPDATE: Link to infomation page.

Avatar « bbPress plugin browser

I’ve been playing with bbpress, by default there are no Avatars, I’ve made a little adjustment to the plugin by Joshua Hutchins

Here is my Forum Post: Avatar « bbPress plugin browser

I wrote an extra function for your plugin so that the avatar can be displayed on the profile page…

function profile_avatar() {
global $user;
if ( get_avatar_loc ( $user->ID ) ) {
echo '<img src="' . get_avatar_loc( $user->ID ) . '" alt="' . $user->user_login . 's Avatar"' . ' />';
}
}

Styles & img sizes could be added into the tag as desired…. then in profile.php template, add…

<?php if ( function_exists('profile_avatar') ) { profile_avatar(); } ?>

hope that helps :-)
Posted: 2007-01-28 19:22:52 #