Archive for March, 2010

Final year project: WordPress Genie

I have my final year project demonstration tomorrow, so today I have deployed the prototype. Here is the link http://davidgoldberg.me/wordpress-genie/ . It runs on Adobe AIR, if don’t already have it installed it will install it for you, then the application. Check out the link mentioned for more information.

23 Mar
Announcements

This made me laugh

After a few hours of intense programming on my final year project, I just took a five minute break and stumbled upon these videos. Shows how viral the internet can be, with http://www.youtube.com/pianochatimprov receiving millions of views in just under a month.

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22 Mar
Thoughts

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

12 Mar
Thoughts

Using WordPress Post Thumbnail with Fancybox

Prerequisites

jQuery and Fancybox must be enabled. Have a look at the Fancybox how to page for detailed instructions.

Note – This assumes you have some previous experience with WordPress, however if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment.

Enabling Post Thumbnail

Add the following to your functions.php file:

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09 Mar
Tips

Setting up Python Imaging Library (PIL) on Mac OS X 10.6

I am experimenting with Django at the moment, getting it up and running on my Mac wasn’t too difficult. I am using SQLite as the database.

I have set PIL up before on a Windows PC, and  don’t remember having any issues.  Like most tasks on Mac, I thought getting PIL to work was going to be pretty straight forward. As it turns out, I definitely need more practice and time using command line. After many a search online, I found something that worked for me:

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07 Mar
Tips
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