Have you ever wanted to develop a website that had some distinctly Windows characteristics to it? Have you ever wondered how you could get those nifty Explorer icons into a format you could use? Well, if you search on Google you’ll find plenty of tools that can do it all for you in one shot. …
Ever want to change the file extension for a group of files in one fell swoop? Me too. If you are using a unix-like system (Linux, Solaris, OS X, etc) then this is extremely easy using a Bash script. If you are on a Windows system then stop everything right now and go install the …
One of the great things about WordPress plugin development is the abundance of open source content to learn from. Ever see a plugin in action and wonder, “how does that work?” or “How can I modify the WordPress XML-RPC system?” Well, all you have to do is download it and see! Most plugins are licensed …
I’ve been doing WordPress plugin development for a little while now. I finally got around to setting up a development environment for this purpose. I wanted to have all of the version 2 releases available for testing so I went to the WordPress site to see how many there were. Seventeen. Hmmm, this could take …
Most programming languages that I know and can think of use conditional tests and comparison operators. This is one of the most basic concepts in programming. A conditional test at it’s most basic form is testing whether a variable’s value is less than, equal to or greater than a constant or known value. You then …
Most of us have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes an example is worth a thousand words. Examples are like pictures in that they give a clear and visible snapshot of something that you are talking about. I am a software engineer and so I blog about programming on occasion. …
What is a scrobble? Actually it’s not a what. “Scrobble” is the term used when you transfer details about a song that you are listening / have listened to into a back-end database using the Audioscrobbler recommendation system used by Last.fm. Ok, that’s the short explanation and if you want more then you can go …
In the first part of this series titled “Would You Like To Post To WordPress From Java?” I introduced you (hopefully) to the XML-RPC mechanism that WordPress implements. I also showed how it is quite simple to post to a WordPress blog using Java and the Redstone XML-RPC API. In this installation I’d like to …
I just installed the WP-Syntax WordPress plugin for the last post. This was so I could have my sample Java code formatted and syntax highlighted in the post. Wow! I didn’t realize how bad it was going to be formatted. The plugin is nice and the syntax highlighting is good, but the code is formatted …
I use and love the WordPress platform for this and several other blogs that I maintain. One of the many cool features of WordPress is that it supports XML-RPC. What does that mean? Well XML is… XML. It’s the extensible markup language and is basically just a way of formatting data in some meaningful way. …