Trend API coming soon

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Jon Smith

A while back I started getting interested in site’s that used API’s from several different sources to create what is known as a web mashup. “A mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service” – Wikipedia. There are plenty of really good examples of web mashups out there, if you are interested check out ProgrammableWeb’s site.

At this time I wrote my own craptacular mashup called The Gob Shite, this site was a mashup of Google’s YouTube, Google’s News feeds and a new API of my own called the TrendEngine. TrendEngine was developed using Google Hot Trends information and provided some level of stability to the constantly changing trend list. It does this by detecting reoccuring trends in the list and applying a weighting formula to them.

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VMWare vSphere Client on Windows 7 doesn’t work

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Jon Smith

The latest in a relatively short line of annoyances with the upgrade to Windows 7 is the lack of support for the VMWare vSphere Client.

There are certain things that when it doesn’t work you wouldn’t be surprised. We all have that application that hasn’t been updated in years but we still need to use on a regular basis. I can somewhat understand why these things don’t work within a new operating system. But for something that gets updated on a regular basis to not work, that is a different story altogether and that really annoys me.

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LJ Custom Menu Links Release Version 2.5

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Jon Smith

LJ Custom Menu Links Version 2.5 has been released to the WordPress Plugin Directory.

This release bring further customisation ability for those who need it. You can now take full control of how you want Custom Menu Links to operate, fully automatic integration or manual integration (modifying your theme for LJ Custom Menu Links).

Changes

  • Fixed compatibility issues by adding the ability to disable the core wordpress override and manually add the LJ Custom Menu Links code to your theme

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Windows 7 and the trip to 64 bit and back again

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Jon Smith

Windows 7 is all shiny and new, and available to the masses. So I thought I would be purchase myself a Technet subscription so I can play with all the new toys that come out in the next year.

I run 4gb of ram in my laptop so I though that I would go 64 bit (and get back that extra 600 or so mb of ram that gets stolen on 32bit machines). The initial install went well, including the install and subsequent windows update yielded a full set drivers for my machine (except the fingerprint sensor, for which Dell haven’t released a Windows 7 driver for yet either).

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LJ Longtail SEO Release Version 1.7

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Jon Smith

LJ Longtail SEO Version 1.7 has been released to the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Changes

  • Bugfix: Cron function had a bug which lead the the cron tasks not being performed

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