The first version of the Disqus plugin has been released! The Disqus plugin allows you to use comments from the social commenting website Disqus. It embeds javascript to show comments when viewing a particular blog post and shows how many comments a post has when viewing a blog post list. Find out more about what Disqus does here. Read more about the plugin here. Download: disqus_plug[...]

I just finished implementing sweetcron on my homepage. It's a pretty architecturally bare-bones but slick feed aggregator that makes a page containing all the most current information about you or what your are interested in. This page is called a "lifestream" and I liked the concept because I'm a busy person and I want to make publishing to my homepage easier so that it doesn't become dusty [...]

I implemented tracking using Google Analytics for my company's mobile sites using a technique described by Peter van der Graff on his site. The technique involves performing a GET to to an image on Google's server and passing it a bunch of options. Incidentally this is because JavaScript can perform gets of images but not gets for any other kinds of content (as an aside, this kind of protecti[...]

There is currently a bug in the current stable release of MDB2 (2.4.1) that breaks transaction support with MySQL databases. It seems to occur anytime the server cababilities are checked twice (This basically means that it occurs when creating multiple connections to the database). After running into this bug I took a dive into the code for MDB2 and found that was caused by the use of a stat[...]