Friday, September 15th, 2006

Pulled Post? Nope, Just Some Usual Problems.

RSS subscribers might have noticed my latest post disappear earlier today after appearing in your feed readers. It was the usual “private post” problem, which I managed to rectify thanks to all of you who contacted me about it.
Yep, contrary to some of your uhmm… really interesting ideas, it wasn’t me pulling off the post […]

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Italian Translation of What is “Using WordPress as a CMS”

Claudio of the WordPress Italy blog recently translated one of my earlier articles in the Using WP as a CMS series into Italian.
Check it out (that is, if you understand Italian :)).
P.S.: It’s really nice to see that despite the rampant scraping that many of us are victims of, there are still those who […]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Short Vacation

I’ll be going off for a 4-day trip to the Philippines starting early tomorrow morning (Malaysian time), so it’s very likely I won’t have internet access throughout that period - though I’ll be bringing along my Pocket PC with hopes of free WiFi somewhere there.
This means I won’t be able to reply emails, comments, IMs, […]

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Most Popular Categories by Posts WordPress Plugin Released

In response to a WordPress support thread, I whipped up this WordPress plugin to display a list of the most popular categories in a particular time period (e.g. last 7 days, 30 days, etc.), based on the number of posts assigned to your categories in that time period.
You might prefer a graphical explanation, so […]

Friday, August 4th, 2006

blogHelper II Design Notes and Tips

Yeah, the new design + structure is named blogHelper II. Zero creativity I know, but since it doesn’t have any negative impact, well… Anyway, this post might get a bit long, so here’s an outline of what I intend to do with it:

ExplainCertain decisions regarding design - whether on the graphical, structural, or usability aspects […]

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

blogHelper Redesign Complete (or At Least, I Hope So)

If you aren’t reading this post in your favourite feed reader, you’ll notice that blogHelper has undergone a design change - as hinted earlier.
Like Technosailor, a revamp of blog architecture has also occured - though “revamp” may be too strong a word. Instead of replacing view modes, I’ve merely supplemented the traditional reverse chronological view […]

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Technosailor Redesigns + Restructures (and So Will blogHelper)

After two weeks of labour, Aaron Brazell has completed the redesign of Technosailor - with key restructuring (or rather, re-architecturing) having taken place. Two new “views” have been implemented to supplement the current reverse chronological blog “view”. They are the Conversation view where recently commented posts float to the top, and the Best Of view […]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Google Finally Launches CPA Ads?

According to a contributor over at SeekingAlpha, Google has just started putting a Cost Per Action (CPA) advert model (a.k.a. affliate marketing) on trial with selected publishers. This comes after speculative discussion over at the Digital Point forums on the issue.
For those who are not completely sure what CPA ads are, they are adverts that […]