Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally

Well not exactly, but close enough to warrant the title I would think.

I know that I was supposed to publish another tutorial before this one, but I hacked this up last week, and thought it was cool enough to preempt the other post.  So at work the new design we just launched called for a rotating, hyperlinked slideshow, with cross-fading.

Normally it would be “To the Flash Cave!”, but I was feeling extra crotchety so I decided to basically recreate Slideshow Pro in PHP, CSS and some JS-foo.  Nothing to spectacular, but it is shiny.  Be warned, this is a very long tutorial… use at your own risk. Read the rest »

For any of you who signed up to be updated as to the release date of this book, ignore the emails from Amazon you are getting.

The publisher and I parted ways months ago, and there is no book to buy.  I have the 11 of 12 chapters I wrote, and I hope to one day have it published; either through another tech publisher or something like LuLu. Read the rest »

If you haven’t yet noticed, there is a new version of the Flickr website.

There are some things that I think are a step down visually, like removing the box around individual images, but for the most part I am impressed with the changes that have been made. Read the rest »

So I have already been asked a couple of questions about the new deisgn; namely how do I make WordPress give me the entire commenting history for an individual commenter, and how am I doing my excerpts in the recent entries column.

I thought I would cover the second question first, since it is the easier of the two.  I toyed with using the function the_excerpt(); built into WordPress, but after much deliberation I decided to roll my own so that I could have more control over the output.

Basically my excerpt function takes two variables, the ID of the post, and how many characters to display from that post.  Not too complicated.  I decided to create two seperate functions so that I could maximize flexibility.

Found this on flickr, through some strange circumstance.  Blog Design Solutions at Piccadilly Circus: