I’ve just finished a quick update on my wordpress plugin Socialize This which increases the functionality of the Widget Sets. If you want to try out a few new Widgets in Socialize This take a look at the Widget Sets page.
Also, if you have made some Widgets and would like them listed on the Widget Sets page, contact me.
Here is a function I use from time to time in my code which I thought I should share. It allows you to quickly shorten URL’s via 6 popular URL shortening websites.
One functions I wish I had known about when i start learned PHP is the realpath() function. Pretty much what it does is take symbolic link (such as ‘../’ or ‘/’) and returns a canonicalized absolute link (like ‘/home/public_html/folder’). Here is an example of it in action:
<?php
echo realpath('../');
// Would return: /home/mike/www/blogposts
?>
My motto is “Clients are idiots”, though if you let them know this odds are you will not be paid. I tend to find this motto is true 90% of the time in the Design/Development field, mostly because clients see you as someone who is paid to make something the way they want to, not in a way that will look good & be functional. Here is a video which pretty much sums up why clients suck.
Click here to go to the original source of the video.
2009 has been a somewhat interesting year for the internet; it’s become more mobile & more user friendly. However here are a few ideas I have had over the year, which I would like to see arrive in 2010.
Video Stream Caching
One of the big annoyances I have with streaming video files (normally on websites such as YouTube & Megavideo) is whenever I go to jump to another section of the video I lose what I currently have already loaded. It would be really useful if I could quickly go back to the section I’ve previously loaded.
This is a mock up I done, the video I used is from RayWilliamJohnson
I’m quite sure this would need to be implemented by the software, but I can’t see how it would be difficult to add.