Author Archives: Donncha

On Camera Policies in Privately Owned Public Spaces

Here’s an editorial piece on photography in public areas. It’s lengthy but it and the comments explore the subject well.
There’s a lengthy thread on the Street Photographers list after a number of members were stopped by police. Trouble, trouble, trouble.

All because some paranoid daytime-TV-watching shut-in saw someone outside with a camera. And because the local TV news tells him to report any suspicious activity said fear consumer dutifully calls the police. After all why would someone want to take pictures of anything other than their family and those Kodak spots at Disney?

This is even worse that some third-world banana republic. At least there you can usually bribe your way out.

Smarty Plugins Working in WP!

Yay! I got the “relatedstories” plugin working! The hardest bit was converting to use $wpdb instead of the PHP MySQL interface. I love that I could call get_permalink in post.html to figure out the story link:

{relatedstories}
{if $relatedstories}
  <b>Related Stories</b> ({$relatedstoriesWords})
  <ul>
  {foreach from=$relatedstories key=key item=story}
    <li> <a href="{get_permalink id=$story->ID}" >{$story->post_title}</a></li>
  {/foreach}
  </ul>
{/if}

WordPress, Smarty and Multi-Blogs

My Smarty powered and mult-blog capable version of WordPress is now running on this site. It’s not perfect at all, but I have a simple script that exports the current blogs here to the WP table format. This blog content lives there already!
I really need to get Smarty caching going soon however!
Link coming in a few days, but TBH, it’s simple to find if you think about it 🙂
Later … Caching’s working, based on URL and user_ID, WordPress developers, is that enough to key the cache by? Also figured out that I need to sanitize_title() all my post titles into post_name before permalinks will work! Doh!

Yum, Yum, delicious links, and others from a fevered mind

Barry Mason actually makes the Dublin Spire look interesting! A feat in and of itself, but he has some other great photos on his site.
Bonus Print could be the cheapest online digital photo service in Ireland now that Spectra Photo have upped their prices.
The Top 10 Digital Photography Mistakes – Silly, obvious mistakes, but I do some of them, maybe you do. Yes, that is microsoft.com that I’m linking to!
Normalization Rules – I fell asleep doing this stuff at college, now I find it insanely interesting, how crazy is that?
A Modern Herbal – I’ve taken a keen interest in my health over the last few weeks. If your stomach’s healthy, then all other things being equal and well you’ll feel good. Must glance at later.
Ouch! – someone looking for attention?
Crazy UI development here. WTF looks like it deserves a return visit!
Information Routing – The first paragraph grabbed me.
Producing Quality CSS in a Team Environment – must read.
delicious mp3 has lots of music orientated links. Some to harvest later!

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