I’m currently on a train heading towards Leeds. We just left Retford. I’m going to stay with my parents for a couple of weeks, for a number of reasons. Firstly next weekend sees the first Grim North’s productions for this year, ‘Stranded’, and I hear on the grapevine that there will be more than one this year, possibly some kind of pantomime around Christmas. Secondly this weekend sees Calderdale Theatre School’s production of Coram Boy and as an ex-member of the school as well as being their webmaster, I said I’d go and see it.
The following weekend saw the annual Chinese New Year celebrations in London and another day out with my camera. This one proved to be much more successful and significantly less painful.
I was trying to sneak this in before the end of February so as to have posted something in February, but I failed. I’ll have to make do with having started it last month, even if I only managed to finish it this month. I was going to blame my lack of updates on a quiet month, but in actual fact there have been a few things I’ve mean to post about and just never got around to. In fact I’m still a blog post missing from Christmas: I had started writing something about Chrismas in Windows Live Writer — the offline editor I sometimes use when writing on the train — but that seems to have gone missing so I’ll have to start again. I think I’ll make an effort to write a load of stuff this week. But enough of excuses, let’s write something worthwhile!
I’ve just made public the release of version 0.6 of the Syndicate Out WordPress plugin. The latest version can be downloaded from the plugin repository.
This release adds a couple of the outstanding things on the long-term roadmap (custom field syndication, making the plugin clear up after itself when uninstalled via the WordPress uninstall system), as well as bringing with it a slew of bug fixes. The full changelist follows:
The following is a basic todo list / wishlist for release 0.6. I’ll add to this as things crop up, and cross things off this as I implement them in my development version. It’s possible some things listed here will end up being released prior to 0.6 if there’s the need for a futher 0.5.x release.
Development of this plugin began this evening with some exploratory posts to the Twitter API. I’m going to work on putting together a roadmap for the project over the next couple of days, pulling together all the suggestions posted previously, and prioritizing the tasks. It’s likely I’ll concentrate on posting to Twitter in the first instance before moving on to pulling into WordPress from Twitter feeds after that. In the mean time do feel free to add your thoughts on what you’d like to see in what I hope will be one of the most complete WordPress Twitter plugins available.
As you would expect with a project of this kind, you can follow the progress of the plugin via my Twitter feed: @CzDuck.
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of Syndicate Out 0.5.1. Due to a bug in the settings page it is not advised that users upgrade to version 0.5, 0.5.1 addresses this bug!
0.5 / 0.5.1 introduces a major new feature as well as addressing a number of bugs highlighted by users:
It’s that time of year again when I can look back at what I said at the start of last year, see how I faired with the resolutions I made way back then, and have a think about what I’m going to try to do this year. Last year’s post is here. I know I was supposed to come up with more than the one resolution last year, but never ended up putting anything down. So that’s the only one I can look at. [read more]
There are a whole load of different Twitter plugins out there, each doing their own thing. Some are designed to fetch data from Twitter, some designed to post data to Twitter. Many blog owners have to use combination of 4 or 5 of these plugins to be able to do eveything they want to do.
After talking with a colleague over the Christmas break we decided it would be great to have one complete, ultimate Twitter plugin for WordPress which offers a whole range of functionality in a much more flexible way when compared to some of the existing solutions.
We have our own ideas and bugbears which we will be addressing, but I’d also like some input into the features and functionality the community would like to see. So, please, add your ideas in the comments below and we can start to build up a feature list to start working on.
I turned 25 in November. I’m getting old. Just before my birthday Dana, Phil, Cecile and I went out for a meal. It wasn’t related, just an evening out with friends, but we did talk about it a bit. Last year I removed my birthday from Facebook to see who would remember, without being reminded, that it was my birthday. Very few people did. I think I sometimes go out of my way to make myself miserable – this seems to be a good example. [read more]