From a few brief searches on Google in the past I found that nobody had done a decent “Rate This Post” plugin for WordPress. This evening I went searching again, and came across the Post Star Rating plugin by O Doutor! It’s in Spanish which may cause some problems for English speakers but I figured it out so it can’t be *that* hard. 😉
After a bit of tweaking, I have it running on In Photos and it appears to work ok! That is, when I clicked the stars it worked, I haven’t stress tested it yet!
Author Archives: Donncha
Who Cares Most
Scott Adams has some great advice for getting on in a relationship: The WCM Method. 🙂
My Name Is Yu Ming
What language would you learn if you were coming to a little country called Ireland? My Name Is Yu Ming is a film about a Chinese student who learns Irish so he can start a new life in Ireland. Unfortunately most Irish people don’t speak Irish..
Even if you don’t speak Irish you’ll get a kick out of this great little film as it’s subtitled. Go watch it! (Thanks Donal!)
CorkBlogs.com Goes Live
Donal noticed that Corkblogs.com is live!
It’s not aggregating many blogs yet but that should improve with time as it comes from the Irish Blogs people who did such a great job on that site.
Donal listed a few of the Cork blogs he knows about and I added a few in a comment. Know any more?
The Bearded Ray D'Arcy
Are you wondering what Ray D’Arcy looks like with a beard and after a shave, with a moustache? Take a look.
Sorry Ray, doesn’t suit you at all!
PHP Optimization and Security tips and rant
Andrew van der Stock’s criticism of PHP’s security model. What security? Global request arrays go some way to making applications safer but there are obscure functions and settings which can trip up developers. (via)
PHP Optimization Tricks from Ilia Alshanetsky has one gem I didn’t know about – the ctype extension. It’s somewhat limited but would be faster and less resouce intensive than a regular expression to do simple checks.
While I’m blogging development stuff, here’s mention of a vector drawing library in Javascript!
Yes, newer browsers have SVG support but this will work in older browsers and newer. Cute.
Surfers finally beat the giant wave of Moher
Surfers have ridden and beaten the huge waves off the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare.
A film is being made about the event, and a preview is available because of the interest in it!
I wonder was Peter anywhere nearby with his camera?
Useful Uses Of RSS
Rich Ziade has listed a number of ways to use RSS more creatively than just reading news headlines from blogs.
One of my favourite non-blog rss feeds is the Flickr Interestingness photo feed which isn’t listed, but I’ll have to look up the comics feed mentioned above! 🙂
My Linux Webcam
When I bought me PC last year it came with a small little webcam which never worked for me until today when I plugged it in and Ubuntu Linux detected it using the Spca5xx driver. This is what the kernel reported:
“USB SPCA5XX camera found. SONIX sn9c102 + Pas106”
Easycam made it easy enough to install new drivers, and Camorama is a useful tool to control it. (via)
Unfortunately this isn’t very exciting for a number of reasons:
- It has a manual focus and doesn’t handle changes in light very well.
- I can’t get it to capture more than
176×144352×288. - There’s no busy road or traffic to see from my window. I could point it at the LEDS on my DSL router?
Oh well! That was fun for five minutes!
An exciting scene in blarney today
The TVArk – television museum
Ryan found the TVArk! Ryan has linked directly to a few ads such as the old Kia Ora one from 1984 and remember the Trebor Soft Mints one set in a strange and soft world? That’s from 1987!
Lots more on the TVArk site itself, Yes Ryan, I’ll have to have a good look around this site tonight!