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Handling custom file attachments in Wordpress plugins

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve been working on a wordpress plugin to make it easy to set a banner image for any blog entry outside the post content. The current approach is flawed...

Using amazon and amazon-ecs to identify genres

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m currently building a site where users will enter details of books and music they’re listening to and we want to provide lists of that on their profile...

For Sale: Canon Digital Rebel XTi/400D

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Having recently upgraded to the wonderful Canon EOS 50D I’m looking for a new home for my old 400D (actually the US version: the Digital Rebel XTi). I...

XML_Feed_Parser: Handing over the reins

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
For the past few years I’ve been maintaining a PHP package called XML_Feed_Parser. It’s part of PEAR and attempts to offer a unified API for handling...

Testing PHP apps with Ruby tools

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
As I’ve mentioned here before, when working on web applications built with PHP, whether custom-rolled or drupal-driven, I often find myself missing various...

New home for Rails ‘geo plugin comparison’

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
About eighteen months ago I compiled a series of reviews of Ruby on Rails plugins concerned with geography. I put together a comparison chart and posted...

Play and Social Media Training

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Over at Netsquared.org Amy Sample Ward has posted another of their regular ThinkTank questions. This time around it’s: What are the key questions nonprofit...

acts_as_amazon_product

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
A couple of years ago I wrote and released a Ruby on Rails plugin called loads_from_amazon. It made it relatively simple to populate a model with data based...

James Stewart says: Find Me

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
So far as I’m aware, there’s not been much to link a small street near Victoria with Lesotho, South Africa, and 47 countries. Until now. Thanks to...

Route Blogging

~1 year ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
At dConstruct in Brighton last month Steven Johnson talked at length about his startup, outside.in, that collects together place-blogs to display aggregates...