This is a WordPress plugin that adds a sidebar widget to display 12seconds video status updates. For those of you who are familiar with Twitter; 12seconds is like Twitter, but with video instead of text updates. You can also embed the widget in posts and pages using shortcodes. The widget itself is essentially a video player. It uses the widget embed code (need to login) provided by 12seconds.tv. The plugin saves you the hassle of copying and pasting embed code and editing templates. Continue reading
Archive for March, 2009
Get-the-image-link: Developing a simple WordPress Plugin
March 14th, 2009
One of the really cool things about WordPress is that when you want to extend its functionality, more often-than-not, someone has already written a plugin for it. However, in my case, the available plugin didn’t do exactly what I wanted. So, I decided to write my first Wordpress plugin. Here I describe the basic but very important concepts that a novice plugin developer needs to learn. Continue reading
The tweetcoding learning experience
March 4th, 2009
I quickly became interested in addicted to Grant Skinner’s genius idea: tweetcoding. What is it? It’s a programming challenge where you try to develop “something cool” using Actionscript in 140 characters. What can you learn form 140 chars? Quite a bit actually. When the compiler strict mode is off, some very interesting shortcuts are possible. There was a different group learning dynamic that was quite interesting. Continue reading
PureMVC Console – Shines a light inside the MVC triad
March 2nd, 2009
I was checking the PureMVC website today and came across PureMVC Console developed by the good folks at Kap Lab. This is an absolutely invaluable tool to figure out in real-time what is going on inside the Flex PureMVC framework in a running application. Continue reading
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