Archive for the ‘WordPress’ Category

My First BarCamp - Vancouver 2008

Monday, September 29th, 2008

There are various conferences around the world that deal with various topics and levels of geekiness though this past Saturday would have been the first time I attended an unconference which was to be held at Granville Island in the beautiful city of Vancouver. What is an unconference you might ask? Well I have never really been told what it may be but whatever it is, it seems to be a free-for-all mashup of topics that people who attend might …

Being Creative With Social Media

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Today is one of those creative days I have where I like to think about ‘what can I do to make my site more interesting?’ Well as I was browsing over at John’s new layout which was designed by UBD I noticed that he displays his Twitter follower count in a dynamically generated graphic that was created by TwitterCounter.

I looked over at TwitterCounter to see what they were about and after looking at my followers (as of this posting there …

WordPress Plugin: wpCommentTwit

Monday, August 25th, 2008

If you own, run, maintain or even contribute to a WordPress site you might be one of many who enjoy being notified when someone leaves a comment on the site, I know I do. When someone leaves a comment I like to be notified relatively as soon as it has been posted so that I can check it out and reply if needed. Currently I am subscribed to my comments RSS feed but with Google Reader it is not …