Is that SNOW? Why, yes it is!

Last Updated on Friday, 12 December 2008 09:46 Written by webguyatwork Friday, 12 December 2008 09:45

Let it snow!

The holidays are rapidly approaching, which means a nice break from work is also just around the corner for most.  Nothing puts me in the holiday shopping spirit like a bit of snow in the air and on the ground.

So to help spread a little bit of my holiday spirit, I’ve added some snow to my site.  Yes, that’s right, snow!

Hey wait, who put THAT image there?

Ah, now that’s better, REAL snow!  Wordpress users were treated to this special addition by simply enabling it in their dashboards.  A couple of enterprising individuals quickly whipped up a plugin for the rest of us self-hosting bloggers.  It’s called “Let It Snow” and it’s available in the Wordpress plugins site at the following URL:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/let-it-snow/

Wordpress 2.7 RC1 is Available

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2009 09:45 Written by webguyatwork Thursday, 4 December 2008 04:10

Thanks to a quick-posting Rachel Baker (twitter.com/rachelbaker), I was alerted to an upcoming upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 that is being pushed to users of their blog site tonight at 5pm PST.  Unfortunately, the personally hosted version is not slated for availability for another month, the release candidate 1 is available for download now at http://wordpress.org/development/2008/12/wordpress-27-release-candidate-1/.

The upgrade took me only minutes to perform.  Try it out for yourself (offline first, of course):

Social Media Widget Update

Last Updated on Monday, 12 January 2009 09:47 Written by webguyatwork Friday, 7 November 2008 09:49

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post on building a sidebar widget for the “Social Media Page” plugin from Philip Norton.  After playing around a bit more with the widget code, and taking a look at another widget example, “Twitter Widget”, I managed to break my code out into another separate file which I will describe here.