Try my beta Word Press Plugin

By Colleen, on January 15th, 2009%

Well, it had to happen. It is amazing that I’ve been using WordPress so long without getting into its guts. While hacking on the Tweet this plugin ever so gently, I started to get the feel for how WP plugins work. So I wrote a couple myself. The first one is  serious old school, as it’s modeled on some older plugins. The second one actually uses more object oriented methodology, and so should be easier to read, maintain, and hack on.

But I’m sure most of you don’t care about that as long as the plugins work. And probably you are wondering what they do. Continue reading Try my beta Word Press Plugin

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Map Your Tweeple (twitter friends)

By Colleen, on December 4th, 2008%


This is a yahoo pipe that gets fed my twitter name, goes to the public twitter feed, finds my “friends” who have provided geographical locations, and uses that data to map them. Yahoo pipes are amazingly visual ways to build mashups. If you don’t want to build your own, not to worry. There are many many published pipes that you can just use, the same way you use RSS feeds.
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Using Blogger as a front end

By Colleen, on November 19th, 2008%

One of my web developer friends evolved her own custom CMS several years ago, when there the opensource CMS’s (a la Drupal, Joomla, et al) were not nearly as good as they are now.   In the past few years many of her clients have wanted to start blogs.  Writing her own blogging module seemed a bit silly in this day and age when there is so much free blogging software available.   She considered what a lot of site owners do– installing a wordpress and hooking it to either a subdomain or a subdirectory of the main client site, but it was not her choice, mainly because if you self-host a wordpress you have to maintain and update it, and most of her clients were not willing to foot the bill for their own private hosted wordpress.   She might have minimized their cost if she had them all running blogs out of a single wordpress install, but  I do not think she considered wordpress mu, or doing what I have done, which is essentially my own homespun mu setup done with symlinks.   Her solution was to use Blogger!

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Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!

By Colleen, on July 15th, 2008%

Dorkage’s response to Entrecard’s partnership deal with SezWho . . . → Read More: Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!

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Hot Dorkage gets reviewed

By Colleen, on July 11th, 2008%

Woot!   Social action!!!  Hot Dorkage got reviewed   on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews  I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for.    I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d . . . → Read More: Hot Dorkage gets reviewed

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