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Archive for March, 2005

3/22/2005 ↓

WP Theme: TicTac
Theme TicTac TicTac is a theme created by Dan Cederholm for Blogger. Yuhan spent some time to port it from Blogger to WordPress and it has a familiar Blogger feel to it. [EDIT] Download not released yet, should be out soon. (0)
run your own del.icio.us
run your own del.icio.us: Personal online bookmarking system. Interesting. Thanks Ringnalda (1)
WP Theme: mx4
WP Theme: mx4: Narrow(ish) well put together and stylish new theme for Wordpress 1.5 (1)
WP Plugin: Smart Archives v1.01
WP Plugin: Smart Archives v1.01: Justin has released a newer version of his Smarter Archives for Wordpress 1.5 with some bugfixes for future date posts, draft/private posts and WP Pages. Get this version if you were using the old version, Justin suggests that you upgrade. (1)

3/21/2005 ↓

WP plugin: rssInclusion
WP Plugin: rssInclusion A plugin for WordPress which allows you to include RSS results directly into your blog post. Lots of cool and neat tags, tagsurfers, tag searches and tricks to play with information in a post. Thanks Russell. (1)
FastTrack - new WP Theme
Here is a brand new theme for download from wpthemes.info. its available at FastTrack Its also submitted to AlexKing’s competition. Check it out ! (0)

Some Ajax Links 5comments

Mark Ghosh

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Everyone is talking about Ajax these days and I wanted to save a few links that I would like to catch up on, including the writeup from Adaptive Path.

Owen created an Ajax based theme for Wordpress with inline editing. Cool usage of Ajax.
Twilight Universe wrote a plugin for Wordpress with the same utility. Again, cool code.
XMLHTTPRequest tutorial that is a must read.
SAJAX or Simple Ajax Toolkit for PHP Now all you do is include the code.
More explanation of REST, XML, XSLT and XmlHTTPRequest
Javascript native XMLHttpRequest
Do you DOJO with XmlHTTPRequest?
Live Chat with AJAX

Thanks to various sources including Asymptomatic, Photomatt, ForeverGeek and Whump.com

3/18/2005 ↓

SXSW05 Notes: Blogging Showdown
SXSW05 Notes: Blogging Showdown: more media integration… better usability… richer experience for users… we listen to users, wherever you want to go, we will make it happen Look for notes on other panels and forums from SXSW05 on Clickable Culture. Note to self: Nested categories are incredibly useful. Instead of a generic SXSW category, a parent SXSW with a child of 2005 (and subsequent years) would be much more usable. (1)
WP Plugin: Colorizer Filter
WordPress colorizer filter/Plugin - PraColorizer Colorize your java,c++,c and c# code (no php support). Interesting results/examples on that post. (0)
Blogger vs WordPress
A layman’s analysis of Blogger vs WordPress: A blow by blow account of Blogger versus Wordpress. Considering that fact that Blogger is a free hosted service and is relatively very easy to setup and maintain, this user points out why, in spite of the those facts, they like having switched to Wordpress. Now thats a resounding endorsement! (3)

3/17/2005 ↓

BIG Wordpress Themes List
BIG Wordpress Themes List Stumbled onto this completely by accident but this page lists over 116 (!!!) Wordpress themes with promises to add news ones as and when she sees them. This reminds me, I have a finish writing another post I have been putting off. (3)
Google Code
Google Code - Google Unveils Open Source Project Site: Several cool projects on the projects page including PyGoogle from Mark Pilgrim and Sparse HashTable (if you are into data structures, this is a vertible hash map). Is this Google’s response to the backlash from the OSS community of late? While you are at it, check out this graph of shares sold by Google Big Wigs. Thanks ThreadWatch (0)
How to Blog
How to Blog: Needs no introduction, a humorous look at popularizing your blog. Gems like
4. Cuss like a sailor.
and
18. before you hit Save as Draft or Publish Post, select all and copy your masterpiece. you are using a computer and the internet, shit can happen. no need to lose a good post.
are abound. Thanks RadioFreeBlogistan (1)

The WP OSSCAS 0comments

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Shadow at www.os42.com is organising and hosting the inaugural Organic Shadow Site Content Awards (OSSCAS).

As noted on the site, the focus here is not what a WordPress site actually looks like, but what the content is. After all, not only is it a site’s content that keeps us coming back, but it’s also the constant in this time of many themes. There is a varied panel of judges, and anyone can nominate any WordPress blog in one or more of the categories.

Why not go take a look, nominate a blog you like and take in some of the quality reading on offer ?

Content is Everything - The OSSCAS