When we were planning on setting up our project management solution we wanted to get something that would meet a number of criteria that we had.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
jQuery Google gMap Plugin
I think with the growing trend and movement towards geolocation based services, like on Twitter, and Foursquare google maps applications are going to need to be geolocation specific. What this means is that there may need to be some rewriting of some older maps or it could just be a chance to refactor and upgrade, at what would seem an ideal time considering some of the utilities and libraries available.
Now when you are looking for a plugin or functionality from a library your needs have grown or may be more specific. For example having the ability to dynamically populate and remove custom markers, or even for performing transitions on the map. Continue reading
jQuery Uniform plugin
With the advent of CSS3, HTML 5 and the power of the ever-growing jQuery the internet is turning out to be a more interesting place. Previously you were given fairly limited access to input form elements in terms of how you could style them. Of course you could always access the css style attributes, however, if you wanted to add a background images, or add some advanced look and feel without loads of code and hacking it was almost impossible.
To add to that the headache of even considering how long this would take to test cross-browser may not even be worth the effort in the end. But at least that has changed with a bit of extra magic. Continue reading
Site Security and file permissions matter
The other day we were talking over a coffee about site security and was it really wise to trust plugins and without a second inspection, or a look at the code.
Now i am sure that many of us have gone and installed a plugin or two without actually looking at the code, but does it really mean we are at risk? I think the undeniable answer is yes, and this is for the very reason of the widespread, and almost unrestricted release of themes and plugins for WordPress. The allure of “free” themes and plugins often leaves the casual blogger or website developer at risk for being exposed by these various sites that offer “free themes”. Continue reading
Foursquare – geolocation + social network
It seems that more and more as social networks evolve that there is a greater demand and influence on social currency as a means of stimilating user interaction and participation. That in combination with the fast growing trend of geolocation based services has led to some interesting mashups, but of interest today is the nifty Foursquare website that offers something for both users as clients and for business too. So lets get down to the basic questions so we know what is going on: who, what, where, when, how and why! Continue reading
Zend Framework + WordPress
Introduction
Often it is the case that you want to get extra functionality when you are coding a WordPress plugin or even adding some enhanced functionality such as grabbing images using Amazon S3‘s storage system or including flickr images with functionality that you may not find available with many other plugins available.
As a result you often end up including a number of different libraries that may include the functionality that you are looking for. However, in the long run what ends up happening is many of the libraries need updating, but because of real mechanism to alert you that an update is needed other than you manually checking. As a result the risk and potential for exposure to security threats greatly increases. Continue reading
Best PHP Flickr library around
When looking to add photos to your WordPress site there are definitely a very long list of plugins available to get the job done, and provide a number of handy tools like template tags and shortcodes to throw in your posts and pages.
Whether you are looking to search and add content to your posts from flickr, or you are merely trying to post pictures that you have shared and uploaded to flickr on your site.
If you have ever wanted to do that you may have actually come across one of these plugins. Continue reading