2 years ago, I launched a service called AdTools.  It was never meant to be used by anyone but me, but instead of spending a lot of time to lock it down to myself, I opened it up to the world.  I never mentioned it to anyone, never marketed it, just used it on all of my craigslist postings.  I had maybe 1 support email a week from it (which I thought was amazingly...

I’m working with a client that saved out a bunch of motifs in to “transparent” gifs, but wants those motifs on a background “without the jaggy” white pixes. After doing the first 10 or so by hand in PhotoShop (a pain in my rear), I wrote a little C# app to handle all of this for me. It assumes the image is gray scale, and that...

I can only divulge a few details, but prepare yourself for widgets in the sidebar and finally support for tags in the post’s meta data. Don’t take my word for it, check the screenshots! I have posted a download with a preview of 1.2 (no renamed to 1.1.1), in another post. NOTE: The look of both these will most likely change before 1.2 is available....

Hey everyone, I have some good news.  I have been working with George Wiscombe to get a new version of Handgloves released.  3 months behind schedule, he was more than happy to receive my help. We merged the changes from my earlier post, and added a few others. New in Version 1.1 Admin menu to change elements! (developed by Jeremy Boyd) jQuery Masonry Comments...

Hey guys, I just finished a WPMU plugin that brings back recent posts from across the blogs on your site. When called, it returns a JSON object, or straight, no-style XHTML. var jsonFeed = <?php $maxPosts = 15; $dateFormat = 'l | M jS, Y'; $feedFormat = 'json'; // can be 'html' also recent_posts($maxPosts, $dateFormat, $feedFormat); ?>; This will pull back a...

As I mentioned in a previous post about my favorite WordPress themes I love the Handgloves theme, but I have a few problems with it (like haven’t to manually edit the navigation file. I have taken it upon myself to add in an Options section in the admin for it. You can download the theme here.  If you notice anything wrong with it, let me know. Handgloves2...