Archive for the ‘coding’ Category

Entredroppers gets a positive review

Just came across a review of one of the plugins I wrote called Entredroppers. It lets you display a list of Entrecard holders who have recently dropped their card on your blog or website. Anyway, I found a WordPress plugin review site called Pluginzilla that tests people’s plugins and reviews...

New WordPress Plugin: SponsorMe

I’ve just published a WordPress plugin that I wrote a few months ago and never actually made available to the World. It’s called SponsorMe and lets you organise a fund raising campaign on your WordPress blog. Blog readers will be presented with a graph of the monies you have collected...

EntreDroppers – Share the love!

I’ve just finished putting the finishing touches on a WordPress Widget that lets you add a list of EntreCard droppers to your website. If you’ve never used EntreCard before, it’s a great networking tool for bloggers, where you can drop your Card onto another bloggers blog to let them know...

Picking a Platform

Great post on ReadWriteWeb about 5 issues to keep in mind when choosing a web development platform. Regardless of what sort of platform you’re after, these ideas translate well to other technologies also. Here are the things to watch out for: Reach of the platform – the broader the target...

Facts on Software Engineering

I came across a post on CodingHorror where Jeff pulls out a summary from Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. There’s some great stuff in there that everyone working in software should know. And good advice is like? cheap glasses, you can never have enough! So...

WP Auctions goes GOLD!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that WP Auctions, a WordPress plugin to enable you to sell items directly off your blog (without paying any listing/gallery/reserve fees), has finally reached Version 2.0. This version boasts a number of enhancements over the previous version, including: Upload multiple images for each...

10 ways to improve your code

Interesting post on The Reg about Neil Ford‘s talk about how to improve you code. The talk was aimed at Java developers but there’s good advice for everyone in there. Here’s what he said in a nutshell: Write tests before writing the code Use static analysis tools Practice “good citizenship”...

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