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Google Reader will be dead as of July 1 and hey, I just happen to be working on a possible alternative.

March 13 Comments Off on Google Reader will be dead as of July 1 and hey, I just happen to be working on a possible alternative. Category: Feed, Tumblr, Wordpress

The Next Web’s report. | The Verge’s report. | LifeHacker’s list of alternatives. | Wired’s report. 
Google has just announced July 1 to be Google Reader’s expired-by date. 
Conveniently for you, I’m working wit…

A better solution than setting the WordPress uploads folder to 777

February 25 Comments Off on A better solution than setting the WordPress uploads folder to 777 Category: Code, Feed, Tumblr, Wordpress

This is setup as a solution for those using the bitnami stack, but with an alteration to the appropriate file-path, I suspect it would be a good solution for any WordPress setup with this problem. 

$ sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wo…

Building a WordPress shortcode into your plugin or theme? Use these functions to avoid conflicts.

January 02 Comments Off on Building a WordPress shortcode into your plugin or theme? Use these functions to avoid conflicts. Category: Code, Feed, Tumblr, Wordpress

Building a WordPress shortcode into your plugin or theme? Use these functions to avoid conflicts.

A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches.

May 02 Comments Off on A WordPress shortcode for archiving Twitter hashtags and searches. Category: Feed, HackText, Wordpress

While numerous tools for publicly archiving Twitter searches have gone premium or disappeared entirely, I’ve built a new one that works entirely within WordPress. Now I need your help to test it.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about how to archive Twitter chats using the then popular and perfectly functional WhatTheHashtag. Later on the site was suddenly shut down and the service discontinued. Since then, I’ve stumbled from tool to tool, trying to find an equally optimal solution that would allow me to generate HTML containing Tweets and post them on my blog (independent from any other platform) with the greatest amount of speed possible.