My latest “weekend project” (well, actually, it took me more like two or three weekends, but I’m getting there) is a web app called afreelance.biz. Built in PHP using the BackPress framework, the site is basically a job search aggregator with a few additional features.
The initial alpha release allows users to register, authorize their elance and oDesk accounts, and save any number of templates for cover letters / estimates / proposals which can be used to submit proposals on jobs. — Read more —
This plugin adds a basic “upcoming events” calendar to WordPress. This is different from most other events calendar plugin in that the events are stored as “links” rather than posts or custom post types. This is useful in cases where the “events” that need to be listed have their own sites, and you don’t need to store information about these listings beyond linking to them. It creates a new link category called “Events Calendar” with meta fields for location and date. It also creates a minimal configurable widget with option to display all events or only future events, show in ascending/descending order, and options to show or hide link images and descriptions. Useful for listing speaking engagements, upcoming social events, or other calendar listings which link outside of your site.
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Well, after saying I would get to finishing up this plugin for a couple years (and honestly being surprised that nobody else has put this together, considering (a) how simple it was, and (b) how much interest there seemed to be), I finally rewrote my old “Recommended Links” plugin and posted the updated code both on github and in the official WordPress plugin directory.
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I’ve been reading the wp-hackers discussion list for a while. Generally its a cool place, where some of the sharpest people in the WordPress development community — both core committers and independent plugin/theme developers — share tips and tricks about hacking WordPress. Sometimes, though, the politics end up being way over the top.
The past week, there have been literally over 120 angry and embittered posts back and forth over a four line function called capital_P_dangit() hidden away in WordPress’s formatting.php file (the same place that handles converting “dumb quotes” to typographer’s quotes, changing -- to en dashes and --- to em dashes). Seems that some of the core developers wanted to enforce the correct spelling of the trademark “WordPress”. (Not Wordpress. Never that. Matter of fact, it took me a few minutes just to figure out how to write that just now and get around the filter.)
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