I just finished up version 0.5 of Plugin Wonderful, the WordPress plugin that makes it easy to add Project Wonderful advertisements to your blog. This version is almost a complete rewrite of the core of the plugin, with a full suite of unit and functional tests added (courtesy MockPress and PHPUnit). I’ve greatly improved compatibility [...]
I’ve spent the past few days getting all of the development work on ComicPress and ComicPress Manager up on GitHub. This also includes setting up automated documentation generation and regular Zip builds of the contents of the repositories. Check out the project pages and wiki pages, and if you want to help out, drop me [...]
I’m working on a library for WordPress plugin and theme development that simulates as many of the core WordPress functions as necessary, for use in automated unit and functional testing. It’s a work in progress as I refine it during my refactoring work for ComicPress Manager. It should work fine in both PHPUnit and SimpleTest [...]
I’m working on an application for mobile phone and for desktop use that will help with prioritizing just about anything. I call it Prioritize Me!. The home page is a little rough, and I’d like to pretty up the UI a bit (right now it’s the standard iUI look, which is functional), but the core [...]
For a recent Flex project I have to work with a series of SWF files that need to be embedded into the output SWF. I also needed to be able to control the SWF files and be notified when they finish playing. Unfortunately, when you embed a SWF in the standard way:
[Embed(source="my_swf_file.swf")]
[Bindable]
public static var my_swf_file:Class;
and [...]
A few bugfixes to Plugin Wonderful made it into the latest release, 0.4.1. Download it today!
Are you a Project Wonderful advertiser? Do you use WordPress? If you do both of these things, you should give Plugin Wonderful a spin. It allows you to quickly and easily add your Project Wonderful ads to your blog, either as widgets, by using template tags, or inserting ads into your RSS feed. The adbox [...]
My WordPress Webcomics plugin, ComicPress Manager, just reached version 1.3.3. There have been a large number of bug fixes, UI improvements, and upgrades for WordPress 2.7. If you’re in to the Webcomic thing, and are already using ComicPress, give it a shot. And while you’re on wordpress.org, bookmark the plugin page on Delicious or [...]
Part 2 is live. It covers the basics of setting up ComicPress, using ComicPress Manager, and some of the basic performance tweaks you can do to WordPress to make it faster. Part 3 next week!
Just a note for all you comic artists and WordPress + ComicPress folks: I just finished the first stable version of ComicPress Manager, version 1.0. It was quite and adventure trying to wrestle out a high-class plugin from the sometimes-awkward WordPress API and the quite-awkward syntax & behaviors of PHP (how about glob(), on some [...]