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I wanted to be able to display my most recent photos and videos in WordPress 2.5 for my new theme. I found that photos were easily taken care of by several plugins (I went with tan tan noodles Flickr plugin).

Videos, I’m afraid, were not so easy. Read the rest of this entry »

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Not too bad. I ran my new theme from last night through the W3C Validator quickly this afternoon and there were only 28 errors initially. I forgot a few required attribute elements to some of my tags and had an extra unused unordered list tag set. Other than that I merely had to use some htmlentities tags around my titles and alt attributes and my 28 errors are now down to zero.

Woot for being XHTML 1.0 Transitional with a WordPress site!

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What began as a simple goal of making my blog look better a few weeks ago became a sudden priority last night after being told that I won’t be employed with my current employer after this week essentially.  I need to put a good face forward and since my blog is the first thing that comes up when you Google my name, I decided to put in an all-nighter and get business taken care of.  

So thusly, welcome to my new theme for StevenHaddox.com. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’ve never really had to write a mashup really, but I recently came across an urge (for whatever reason) to create a mashup, or simple interface, where one can supply Google Maps with a little bit of data, and return a very nifty result.

If you want to try it out - simply go play with my mashup or view the source code (.zip). Otherwise keep reading to get a feel for the input parameters and the intended results.

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I’ve put it off long enough. A long time blogger on the Plone open source CMS, I decided it was time to put my domain name (http://www.stevenhaddox.com) to good use. Now that WordPress has gone open source I can finally join the common throng of PHP based bloggers (I used to once be in this throng with Blogger but switched when I could setup Plone for free on my own domain).

I love Plone with a passion, but for a simple blog website it’s a little bit of overkill :) So here I am world and I greet thee with “Hello!”

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