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The latest beta version of the TipThis plugin now has a sidebar widget! This will allow users who don’t want to spam their blog frontpage with Tip This buttons to have a way to accept tips on their main page. Just go to the Presentation portion of your Wordpress admin dashboard and drag [...]

If you are using Spottt on a Wordpress blog you’ll have to insert the code that Spottt gives you to embed into your theme’s sidebar code. This is hardly user friendly. so I decided to put together the Spottt Wordpress Widget for Wordpress blogs that support widgets. Bookmark this post for updates!
The current [...]

With a great deal of code stolen from the Devlounge plugin guide (I tipped them), I’m pleased to announce a beta version of the TipJoy TipThis Wordpress plugin! The plugin is up and running here with the options in the screen grab:
(click for a screen grab)
Features include:

Adding your TipJoy UserID to your header [...]

In technology, change is a way of life. Feature stagnation will lead to a competitor jumping ahead of you and an abandonment of your product. At the same time, changes in your product can cause a backlash from users who aren’t happy with the results. A thread on Hacker News is what [...]

This morning my favorite code search engine, Krugle, has made two big announcements:
 

The launch of their second generation Code Search Appliance that can access SCM systems. If you can get your hands on one of these then you don’t have to rely on a hacked together app that searches code or worse yet, just [...]

I recently got a new laptop, nothing fancy, but it needed some tools to be really useful. This is the list that I came up with and it’s just as useful for desktops:

PC Decrapifier - Get rid of the preloaded junk so we can make room for the good stuff

- You have to [...]

This is a reminder to all you programmers and lovers of programmers, that Programmer Day falls on September 12th this year.   Go ahead and mark your calenders now so you don’t forget!  Programmer Day falls on the 256th day of the year, normally September 13th.  But since it’s a leap year, we get to [...]