Please sir can i have some more PHP Documentation!

Posted on May 13, 2010 by timani

It is undeniable that there is a laissez-faire attitude among developers when it comes to code. Coming from a Java background where everything is fairly tightly defined in terms of best practices and how things should be done, PHP is almost the opposite.

This is appealing at first, as it makes learning the language easy, as well as making PHP do what you want with relative ease when compared to a .NET or Java solution.

However, a major drawback is that it soon becomes the Wild Wild West of coding Continue reading →

Free Premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin

Posted on March 24, 2010 by timani

As another way to go grow and offer different types of media to keep your blog going. Podcasting is a definite way to add more dynamic content, and now you can with the free, premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin.

The project was initially developed by Ronald Heft over at but it is now maintained by TSG. I think that there are currently two really good and free choices when it comes to adding multi-media content to your site, with the TSG podcasting plugin being one and the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. Unfortunately it seems that the old podpress plugin that used to be an option isnt really going to be going any further. Continue reading →

Zend Framework + WordPress

Posted on February 24, 2010 by timani

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

Posted on February 24, 2010 by timani

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 →