With the recent trends in websites, RSS is becoming a vital components of just about any web application. Long gone are days of RSS being for news only. Since so much data is being put out in RSS feeds, they can be very useful to a modern web developer. Just this past week I wrote [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
New Pepper: WordPress Comments
About a month ago I committed myself to porting Who’s Talking?, an ExpressionEngine comment tracking Pepper, to WordPress. Well, after a month I’m finally proud to announce that it’s ready for use. A big thanks goes out to Chris Ruzin for the original idea and to Tony Gumbel for coming up with the idea of [...]
We the People Competition in Philly
Tomorrow morning I’m leaving for a two day trip to Philadelphia to participate in the We the People competition. The past two weeks I’ve basically been consumed in preparation for the event, and now it’s finally going to occur. While I don’t think the rest of my class is prepared, I know I am which [...]
The Top Ten WordPress Plugins
If you run a blog from your own website, most likely you’re using WordPress. While WordPress is great by itself, the majority of WordPress’ usefulness comes from its plugins. Some of the best and most creative features come from plugins, and because plugins are so easy to create and install, there are literally hundreds of [...]
Digg is Back!
Thanks to a new commenting system introduced today, Digg is finally starting to return to the site I once loved. While the quality of the stories could still use some improving, the major downfall of Digg, the comments, has now been solved. From what I’ve seen today, the crappy comments are being buried while the [...]
