Author Archive
Vanity URLs
Well, I finally did it. I went out and bought nikkiblight.com (and nikkilynnblight.com for good measure). Kind of jumping on the bandwagon, I guess, but I figured why not? 🙂
Support internet freedom. Oppose PIPA and SOPA.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, if you’re in the tech industry odds are you’ve heard of PIPA and SOPA, currently making their way through the Senate and the House, respectively.
Google Plus for Businesses has finally arrived
Google took it’s next step toward becoming real competition for Facebook today. The long-awaited (by businesses, anyway) Google+ Pages for brands launched this morning.
Redirecting QR Codes
A little experiment I created, since my employer has an interest in QR Codes. My new QR Redirect Plugin lets you redirect a WordPress permalink anywhere you want, and never have to update the QR code that points at it.
WordPress Plugin – QR Redirect
QR Code Redirect lets you set up your own QR Code redirection site. The plugin creates a new custom post type called QR Redirect, which generates a QR code that points to the post’s permalink. You may then specify any URL you like for the post to redirect to.
My new DJ On-Air Widget
If you’re in need of a WordPress widget that displays the DJ currently on air in the sidebar of your website, try my new WordPress plugin.
WordPress Plugin – DJ On-Air Widget
Description The DJ On-Air Widget adds a “Dj Shifts” field to user profiles that allows them to be scheduled for on-air shifts on an hourly basis and provides a sidebar widget that displays any user(s) scheduled for the current hour. Download WordPress Repo: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dj-on-air-widget/ Direct Downloads: Version 0.2.6 – 11/25/2011 ** bug fix** Version 0.2.5 […]
What’s your default install?
Over the past few months, I’ve found myself working with WordPress more and more, simply because it cuts down on development time and gives me the freedom to focus on customizations rather than making sure the core of the site is working correctly. But what’s a CMS without plugins? These are the ones I install […]
Do we need another social networking site?
How connected do we really need to be these days? Facebook is ubiquitous in virtually everyone’s lives anymore, as is Twitter, and (in the professional world, anyway) LinkedIn. Now we have Google+… well, those who’ve managed to score an invite to the limited field trial do, anyway. Reportedly, the invite system was shut down due to excessive demand.
WordPress Plugin – Playlist217
Description Playlist 217 allows a radio station to maintain a live “now playing” list of tracks played on their station. It accepts an artist name and track title via a URL, stores it, and when possible matches it to the appropriate album art for display. Playlists can be displayed as “most recent” or from a […]
Learning to love WordPress
For a long time, I was one of those people who liked doing things the hard way when it came to websites. I loathe WYSIWYG editors, and hand-code just about everything. I enjoy a challenge, and after having had a hand in writing an entire CMS from the ground up, moving to something that’s already […]
What I learned from DailyIllini.com
Waaaaay back in 2009, DailyIllini.com decided to get out and build and maintain the web incarnation of the University of Illinois’ student newspaper all on their own. The site’s former host, College Publisher, was no longer meeting the paper’s needs (and wants), and on top of that, it’s future was uncertain (it had recently been […]
Fun with Misery
What is it about the web that brings out the desire to torment the people who annoy you? Wandering the web today, I happened across what has to be one of the greatest Drupal modules ever created. Misery, inspired by vBulletin’s “Miserable Users” hack, is designed to randomly annoy, frustrate, and otherwise make online life […]
Time to start brushing up on my Java skills
I finally just recently broke down and got myself an Android phone. I’d been putting it off because I really couldn’t justify the expense (given that I’ve been paying something like $99 a year for my TracFone for the last 10 years or so, paying four or five times that every year wasn’t exactly appealing). […]
Pardon the mess…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, my portfolio is currently undergoing some unexpected renovations. I’ll be adding more content as time goes on, and hopefully setting up a less default-looking WordPress theme in the near future.
