Coredump

A nifty feature on WordPress 2.7-’hemorrhage’, Plugin Browser/Installer, lets you to select and install plugins from a web browser. There’s no need for the typical download-unzip(-FTP, if you don’t have shell access) workflow that we currently have.

A nifty feature in the nightly build, Plugins Browse/Installer

You can search using plugin names and descriptions, tags, or author. Once you find the plugin you need, installing it is just a matter of clicking on the link. The link provides the description of the plugin, much like what’s available through the WordPress plugin directory. You can even activate the plugin from the same popup overlay.

Speaking of the nightly build, the dashboard sports a new look — sidebars instead of header tabs:

WP 2.7-hemorrhage dashboard sports a new look

Gab is getting too fond of online games (Cartoon Network, Bandai, mostly kids’ stuff), so I used a little hack often employed by Trojans and other malware: I set the hostnames of the above domains to 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts file. I know, I can be an *evil* tatay sometimes, but I had to curb his growing addiction.

But, to paraphrase Judith Milhon, there are clever ways to circumvent imposed limits. He googled [cartoon network], and clicked on the next working link in the organic results.

Lesson in online parenthood: if it’s on the web, it’s just a google away. Touché.

Cover-flow style, courtesy of MooFlow tools. The photos were compiled from Flickr.

I was attempting to automate the process ala-fd’s Flickr toys, what with the Flickr API’s fantastic use of JSON responses (no need for server-side nor cross-site xHTTP requests). Alas, my days were packed. But I’m getting the hang of it. I’m relearning JavaScript along the way (I could actually rebuild a DOM tree from the JSON response, cool). One thing that would have made my coding easier: an API wrapper for JavaScript.

Anyway, enjoy.

Kudos to Naraoya and ATIS547 for the borrowed pics.