I’ve been trying to sneak some “me” time in between projects here at work. I found an afternoon to fix up the Custom Post Type List widget. It does not have as many users as some of my other plugins, but it is one that I use on several blogs. If I use it, then [...]

For some reason I have been receiving requests to review Kindle books. I like the Kindle and this is a way to get free books, so I’m all for it. There is only one thing wrong with this concept and that is, the books are pretty bad. Aside from the bad writing, though, the books [...]

I posted the RSS2POST source on github. This was torture for me. The concept of how to use the software was difficult and the help path was seriously flawed. I was able to figure it out, quickly enough, but there is basic philosophy involved that seems to want it to be a Linux elitist product. [...]

I got rid of the facebook widget for this blog. It made no sense. I had 45 “likes” and there has been no activity for a long time. I don’t market this page. Anyone who needs the information here can find it easily through WordPress or a search engine. I don’t sell anything here (other [...]

I used to help edit a Science Fiction eZine names Astounding tales. It was lots of work and ultimately very painful and frustrating. There is, however, a part of me that would like to try it again. I was thinking that this time I would make it an eReader magazine that would send a couple [...]

One of my more successful plugins, and the first one that I wrote, is now out there in the 1.60 version. I improved the way it works, using what I have learned in other projects to update it. It now will match things like words with accents. I also use the WordPress functions to massage [...]

I have written two scripts, not WordPress plugins, but standalone programs that will send a web page or an RSS feed to a user’s kindle. One is a newsletter program that accepts a list of Kindle user ids and emails and sends them all the same web page. This would be useful for sending out [...]

I was too eager to release the Kindle-This widget. I forgot to take out some debug code that I had in it. I was experimenting with some other parameters and I left one of them in as a requirement, even though there was no way to enter it. As a result, the widget broke. It [...]

I got a Kindle for Christmas from my sister-in-law. I wrote a Kindle-This widget which should send a blog page to my kindle. I can’t see if it worked until I get home. It will be an interesting experiment.

I received a Kindle form Santa (Justine). I fired it up Christmas Eve, along with millions of other lucky people and discovered that there was nothing on it to read. It comes with an instruction manual and a dictionary or two and that’s it. I decided to use the internet in order to load the [...]