Archive for December, 2009

Sam Javanrouh: city on ice

Authored by Calvin Freitas on December 23rd, 2009

Sam Javanrouh is my favorite photographer at present. He takes incredible photographs and also does the occasional video. The video below, Toronto on Ice, is one such example.

Visit his website [daily dose of imagery] here.

WordPress 2.9 Released

Authored by Calvin Freitas on December 19th, 2009

WordPress 2.9 has been released and is available for download. The most important new features are a new “trash” system for deleting posts or comments, a built-in image editor, batch plugin updating, and easier video embedding.

On a related note, Elitwee MyTwitter 3.0.3 is compatible with WordPress 2.9 and is a great way to include your tweets as a widget on your WordPress blog.

PHP 5 Library for Posterous API

Authored by Calvin Freitas on December 9th, 2009

I have written a PHP 5 library for the Posterous API. It uses the curl extension to query the Posterous API, retrieves the XML, and returns the XML as a SimpleXMLElement.

Read more information about my Posterous API library for PHP 5 or clone the code on GitHub.

Elitwee MyTwitter 3 Plugin for WordPress Released

Authored by Calvin Freitas on December 3rd, 2009

The Elitwee MyTwitter 3 Plugin for WordPress has been released and is available for download now from the WordPress Plugins Directory.

Description: Elitwee MyTwitter is a simple tweet widget and status updater for WordPress.

What’s New?: This new version allows you to easily add one-or-more Twitter widgets to any widget-enabled WordPress theme. You can also post updates to Twitter directly from the plugin’s Settings page. It is compatible with WordPress 2.8 and higher.

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