HTML 5 preview and editable to-do list in 60 seconds

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So i have to admit that one of my favorite new applications is Screener. What screenr allows you to do is to easily, quickly and painlessly record a desktop session, whether you are on a Mac, PC, or linux computer using a java applet (which is pretty fast).

Once you record your screencast, you can then manage and administer your own channel similar to a Youtube or Vimeo channel. You get the benefit of a sleek player that clearly distinguishes itself from the rest, simple and has basic sharing capabilities.

Here is a demo by Netuts of an editable list that takes advantage of HTML 5 and the localStorage attribute and works with compatible browsers. Continue reading →

WordPress 3.0 Beta first code review complete

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As the WordPress community eagerly awaits the final release of WordPress 3.0 it is always good news when you see positive reviews from Alex King, the WordPress innovator with plugins like the widely used Twitter Tools, the Carrington theme framework, and the WordPress ShareThis plugin, on how things progressed. This is also pretty re-assuring as this is essentially the first comprehensive code review of this type that they have done for the upcoming version.

At the moment WordPress is going through a major transition from version 2.0 released in December 24th 2005 to WordPress 3.0 Beta and 3.0 final scheduled for release in May 2010 according to WPDevel.

For those who have seen the gradual ascent of WordPress into the platform it is now, Continue reading →

Add your linkedIn profile on your site or WordPress blog – no coding

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Recently i was working with the Facebook AP again, before i did my presentation at the Seattle PHP meetup . At the time one of the potential ideas was the linkedIn API and how to integrate linkedIn to your site, but obviously facebook was the API in demand.

As i was playing around with the linkedIn API and i managed to stumble upon the widgets that are one the developer site, and thought it would interesting to add them to your WordPress site.

I am sure that this is ideal for portfolio or sites, real-estate agents, companies adding some social networking flair to their site Continue reading →

WordPress blogs getting HACKED! no fix as of yet?

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UPDATE:

No official patch but there is a fix for this now. You can find out  more here… – April 12th 2009

Unfortunately today i read some bad news as SC magazine (April 9th 2010) reported that indeed some WordPress blogs had indeed been hacked! A while ago did write about security and permissions, and this came after working finding a malicious theme that attempted to execute and hack into a WP site from the the themes functions.php.

It seems that Themelab aptly wrote an article called “Dirty WordPress Hack Going Around, Cloaked to Search Engines” , as they noticed there was indeed a vulnerability and potential for SQL injection, or in lay man’s terms “hacking“. The article is dated March 1st 2010, and at the time they noted that,

This particular hack uses some particularly dirty methods which include inserting spam keywords into your own content, which is probably to control your keyword density.

They also point to a trick known as cloaking to inject data into your content, Continue reading →

Twitter being used as a box-office sales crystal ball

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I think it is a definite reflection on the direction that social marketing is taken when Twitter is being used to predict box office hits, misses and general forecast number, with very good accuracy considering the nature of the subject, the old tweet.

As i read the BBC i saw an article about Computer scientists from the HP lab of social computing analysed about 3 million tweets from about 25 movies. First off it is great to see more quantitative data, as it starts to give a better handle on the larger scale influences social networking has on our lives. So the fact corporations like HP have taken the impact so seriously they have allocated resources and an entire department, dedicated to trends and scientific analysis of the Facebook,   Foursquare and others on our lives outside of the web.

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Dr. Bernardo Huberman who is the head of the social computing lab at HP noted something important, all-be-it slightly intuitive, Continue reading →

Microsoft getting deeper into jQuery and open source

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I much like every other developer has cursed Microsoft for bringing the ever, non-standards compliant Internet Explorer Browser suite to the world. Fortunately the pain of dealing with Microsodt based browsers has lessened but some pain at times is undeniable.

When Microsoft first included jQuery as part of its .Net framework stack with Visual Studio and ASP MVC as of version x it was a move that was essentially unavoidable. Their own platformwasn’t as robust and jQuery and the ease, as well as rate it was growing was eating the competition like Scriptaculous, and Mootools alive. Continue reading →

New Youtube channel!

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After a long time i finally decided the time was right to setup a new youtube channel to put out the a lot more videos. I think its personally a faster way to blog, easier to understand and not to mention the SEO benefits.

I think that i will keep the content on the channel primarily web development based, and this time if i am going to be presenting at the next Seattle PHP meetup again i can always put it online.

Well do enjoy the first post, it is another jQuery and Google Maps video, as i have noted before, i am amazed at the the number of people who end up here searching for both jQuery and Google Maps but to keep them coming here is link to the youtube channel, and check out the post if you are looking for another plugin. Continue reading →