Anything to do with php or web development
WordPress 3.4 & iOS5
Well, I can’t see a great deal that’s new in WordPress 3.4 for the iPad. The Add Media tab does now have an From Computer pane but, for time being, it just includes a link to the mobile apps page.
WordPress App
I’ve been trying out the WordPress iOS app and I can’t say that I’m impressed. The post editor is so stripped back that it’s almost useless. If you want to post status updates via your iPhone, I can see how it might be useful but that’s about it.
Ravelry WordPress Widget
I stumbled across the Ravelry API page & the Progress Bar code last week and immediately thought “That would make a great widget”
. Someone did create a WordPress Progress Bar plugin about 4 years ago but it has never been updated. Also it still required site admins to add some JavaScript to their sidebar or pages manually.
So I decided to create a plugin widget that you just needed to drag & drop into (say) a sidebar. Of course, then I decided to see what else I could build into the widget as well as the Progress Bars and decided that a list of FO would also be nice.
WordPress Themes
I’ve now got 10 WordPress themes listed at wordpress.org!
I think I’ll give them a rest now and stick to making new themes available on Quirm.net.
How Many…? Tools Updated
I’ve finally found time to update the How Many…? Tools. There are now 4 separate online tools that attempt to help with burning questions such as:
- If I want to decrease 14 stitches over 6 inches – how many rows should I work between decreases?
- My pattern needs me to increase 13 stitches evenly over a row – how often do I increase?
- I want to knit something 13 inches wide – how many stitches do I cast on?
- I want to knit a piece 22.5 inches long – how many rows do I work?
The tools should now provide far more practical suggestions for awkward calculations such as:
- decreasing 7 times over 90 stitches
- carrying out 5 increases over 7 inches with a row count of 6 rows per inch
And, after all that maths, my head hurts…
Uh?
I released a little script I wrote the other day that converts a GMT date to a UTC timestamp. Originally I needed to convert a whole stack of GMT dates to UTC and, once I’d written a script to do it, I figured other people might find it useful, so tarted it up a little and released it as a Quirm Scriptlet.
Within a few days, someone was asking on the Quirm support forum how to convert PST times using this script.
I very nearly replied with Try a different script!
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Site Extended
Current Mood: Pleased 😀
One of my oldest clients had to, effectively, close shop earlier this year when their funding simply ran out. So I was really pleased to hear, this morning, that they’ve just managed to win a funding bid for almost a full year. Especially as one of the first things they did was to contract me to look after their site again until next July!
Now I have to go and start cleaning up the site ready for an influx of new material. It’s been languishing these last few months – which is a real pity as it’s been a really popular site. Nice to know it will carry on running for a while yet…
Random Art
Um… did I mention that the Random Art in the sidebar is all mine?
I’ve put together a script that pulls random images from pre-designated sub-directory. So far, it’s working fine but I may need to tweak it as, and when, I get around to adding some new images to the Gallery.
Web Course
I’ve been invited by the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM) to provide a web accessibility course in late November.
The course content isn’t a problem. It’s how I manage to deliver the content over 5 hours without boring the audience to death that I’m having problems with.
I also forsee lots of arguments with Powerpoint on the horizon – with Powerpoint winning most of the time – giving K the opportunity to add a whole new set of words to his vocabulary!
Random Image
Current Mood: Pleased 🙂
OK – the random art thumbnail script is working.
I did think about developing the script into a full WordPress plugin but it’s pulling pre-generated thumbnails from the Quirm Graphic Art Gallery and would take quite a bit of work to add a GD based thumbnail generator to the current script. Perhaps I’ll look into it some other time.
For now, I’m quite happy using it ‘as is’.
