Facebook WordPress Plugin
I’m looking for a WordPress Plugin that displays my Facebook status. Simple right? Well, apparently not simple enough because the only thing I’ve found that deals with the Facebook API is some photo plugin. Yeah, I’m really going to use that…
The API looks like it will support it, but I only spent about five minutes looking into it. So, if you happen to know of a plugin that does what I’m looking for, let me know. If I don’t find one in about two weeks time, I’ll make it myself, and then post it on the WordPress plugins page, but I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Growl Extension Bug
Joey Minta brought it to my attention that Growl isn’t saving your preference about a notification being displayed once the application you have the extension running in restarts. Today I looked into it a bit, and at first I thought I was using the wrong method. However, the method that I thought was the right one ended up being an alias for what I was doing anyway (yey for open source code!).
I really don’t want to compare registration dictionaries and then re-register myself, and it seems like I shouldn’t have to. So, I’ve sent a message to the Growl Discussion list wondering if that is actually the intended behavior. The first e-mail I got back seems to indicate that it isn’t the intended behavior, so I’m going to hold off on writing code to compare dictionaries for now. Once this issue is resolved, I will feel confident about releasing 0.9.5, as well as get docs out on how other extension can include support for Growl easily. Hopefully that will be within the next two weeks.
Secure PHP on the Web
PHP is a powerful and easy language to learn. As a developer, you must use that power in a safe and effective manner. While being easy to learn means that it is easy to pick up, it also means that you may not have any experience with writing secure code. Writing secure code is a must, however, if you do not want your server to be compromised, user data stolen, your site destroyed, or quite possibly worse. In this article, you will learn about writing more secure PHP code.
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New Theme
I just came across some weird bug where my post didn’t get published. Here it goes a second time…
As some of you may have noticed, I have a new theme. It works well for me since my mac has essentially become my primary machine (even if it is a bit underpowered compared to my desktop). I needed a new theme, and saw this one and decided to go for the change. This is only temporary until I get around to writing my own, or hacking this one until I’m happy. I already had to hack this one a bit to get my extension pages working properly.
Hopefully everyone will like this, although Reed already expressed his dislike. He doesn’t like mac’s though, so he doesn’t count. :p
School is rough, but I’m almost done (finals start next week), and then it’ll be off to Mountain View, California for my internship with Mozilla. My start date is 5/7, but I’m still not sure exactly what I’ll be working on. A few ideas have been tossed around, but nothing conclusive. It’ll be cool, regardless ;)
Stalk words and channel messages; Check
Well, I just checked in the code to have stalk words and your nick send a notification, as well as any message said in the channel. It’s really cool!
I might be able to get all the notifications done by the end of the week, and then I’ll have another preview release out for general consumption (still in the sandbox of course).
You can of course build it from the source if you are ambitious enough. ;)
