I just received an email from the WordPress Development mailing list outlining some of the major developments in WordPress 2.9. Here’s what to it says: WordPress 2.9 is currently in beta and is expected to be ready in several weeks. Major new features for developers: - comments meta table -...
Sometimes, it takes a small problem to make one realise how little he actually knows. I personally know a fair bit about all sorts of technology, ranging from networks, to development to integration; however I haven’t really had much experience with Linux. It’s partly because most of the services I...
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...
I’ve recently had the opportunity to learn more about AJAX. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a web technique whereby web pages can make asynchronous calls to backend services to present functionality to the user without having to refresh the page all the time. I did this while developing...
Last night I wanted to create a WordPress widget for my brother in law, Randolph who has decided to ask people who ask him what he wants for Xmas to donate cash towards his new laptop. It’s a bit rough as I can’t really dedicate time to it at the...
I’m not sure whether I’ve blogged about this before, but I wanted to talk about the hosting facility my website is using. It’s on a reseller package on a company called ServerGrid and it comes with a host of facilities. Obviously there’s the usual things, disk space, bandwidth, email and...
Is your blog sticky? Would you like your visitors to keep coming back for more? Well, one way to make sure this happens is to respond to the comments they leave on your blog. The question is, how do you make sure they get the response? Well, one way is...