Steve's Ramblings

Thoughts on Version 2

Steve — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:56:26 +0000

In which Steve witters on about Wordbooker Version 2 and gives some insight into how he's planning to do things. Its all very technical and boring and subject to change without notice.

Still Alive

Steve — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:09:06 +0000

In which Steve witters on about Facebook, and Wordpress, and gives lots of excuses for not getting round to coding version 2 of his plugin sooner than he has.

Revisiting “old” Code

Steve — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:23:21 +0000

In which Steve mutters and grumbles about bit rot, and the problems of hacking code together when you are trying to connect two different web based applications who are also implementing major code changes without any proper documentation being available.

So much for Mobile broadband

Steve — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:25:32 +0000

In which Steve mutters about the O2 broadband dongle and its broken DNS handling.

Using the new Facebook Graph API off-line

Steve — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:29:05 +0000

In which Steve shows off some code to handle offline interactions with Facebook using the new GRAPH API and the new Facebook PHP SDK. Its all very technical and dull.

Hitting a moving Target

Steve — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:47:42 +0000

In which Steve witters on about the crazy situation with Facebook and its ever changing API and developer policies and other such insanities.

The importance of testing

Steve — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:31:52 +0000

When I started the fork of Robert Tsai’s Wordbook plugin, which I rebranded as Wordbooker, I was pushing out version after version very quickly: Version 1.0 came out on 02/01/2010 and I was up to Version 1.5 by 10/01/2010. Things have slowed down a bit now, and Version 1.6 was released on 22/01/2010 with 1.6.1 [...]

WordPress and Facebook Integration

Steve — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:49:33 +0000

I’d been using the Wordbook app for quite a bit but I’d always found that it lacked some features that I liked. I’ve now added these functions and got it doing things how I’d like. So rather than keep cluttering up the original wordbook application page I’ve forked by code off totally. I created a [...]

The Cast List of White Christmas

Steve — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:38:21 +0000

Emma Dreaming Arthur White Chris Muss Jess Likedy Juan Sy Hugh Sterno Wendy Treetops-Glissen Ann Chilled-Wren Liz Anne “Two Ears” Laybelle Cindy Snow Emma Dreaming Arthur White Chris Musswit Avery Criss Miss Carr Dai Wright Mayor Dazeby Mary-Ann Bright Anna-May Hall-York-Rhys Mrs B White Totally NOT my work, all credit goes to Graham Garden, Bill [...]

A Thanksgiving Wedding

Steve — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:29:40 +0000

So what did you do on the Saturday following Thanksgiving on Thursday and the madness of “Black Friday”? Did you take it easy and watch some TV, or did you venture out to do some shopping hoping that things would be a little quieter. Or did you go to a wedding? Rick and Jill’s wedding [...]