Month: March 2010

  • Overlay app

    Overlay app

    Selecting an image would in some projects be quicker if you actually could see the image in the context. If you’re making a magazine, a brochure or a web banner, the design could be pretty much set, and you just need the image to go with it. So, what Overlay does is to show your…

  • webhook thingie

    so you want to be able to ping your local computer when something happens on the internet? not a problem, thanks to xmpphp. the flow would be: your code -> xmpphp -> googletalk -> adium -> growl. neat huh? some ideas where this may come in handy: – when a cron script finishes on a…

  • search for artist from iTunes

    So, say you got this one great track in iTunes, and you want to look for more music from the same artist. Here’s a simple little script that can ease things up a bit. Download it This script makes a Amazon search in Firefox for the artist, but as you’re guessing you can make it…

  • simple custom type

    there’s a point in every wp project (almost) where i need something more than just posts and pages. like stores with longlat data, albums from an artist in the sidebar, etc. now, there are a couple of plugins that do this, like pods and flutter, but they both have their downsides (pods is complexity+doesn’t play…

  • applying oop to wordpress themes

    first couple of wordpress themes people hack together are unmaintainable pieces of junk, so was mine (to say the least). the problem usually lies in the custom functions.php file, in which all things evil mostly takes place. the code in this file is generally just sequentially executed crap which, if you’re lucky, won’t collide with…