LINICKX LifeStream Version 0.3

linickx lifestreaam version 0.03 logo
It’s been a very long time since I’ve needed to look at this plugin but since linickx.com has moved to twentyeleven I wanted to take advantage of post formats; this has motivated me to make some minor updates.

New Fetures

  • Post Format Support
    Feeds can be assigned post formats, Standard is the default format if you theme doesn’t support this, twentlyelevn does and I think the link format works quite well.
  • Fail without Bail
    A bug I’d just lived with was if the feed was corrupt then the plugin would simply crash and burn, sometimes a factory reset was required to recover. Now the plugin will detect the error, dump the message and carry on… much better!
  • Admin Page Updates
    I’ve been slowly adding context help to my plugins, you know the little help in the top right hand corner, so help is now even closer. The news feed at the bottom will now take advantage of the fail-without-bail feature for when linickx.com is down. The final change here is a dontate feature, there is a tick box to remove this ;)

All the old features still exist and the same old information applies…

Enjoy!

rackspace Cloud DNS API Tools

I’ve been looking at moving my nameserver to rackspace cloud dns to take advantage of the records support which my current provider lacks; the rs cloud portal supports a basic interface to their DNS API but lacks access to the records I’m interested in (DKIM/SPF/SRV/etc).

There seems to be a lack of utilities on the internet to take advantage of this API, maybe it’s because DNS just isn’t cool? … Anyway I’ve decided to take a crack at this myself. Introducing RSDNS!

Hosted on github, rsdns is going to be a set of shell scripts of making DNS changes, now my shell scripting can be a bit n00b at times so there’s only two tools today but I’m hoping to write enough to migrate my domains to the cloud dns.

Feel free to submit recommendations, code preferably either here or on github.