thyncology » WordPress http://www.thynctank.com The Science of Thynctank. Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:33:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Redesign Begins! http://www.thynctank.com/wordpress/2007/12/the-redesign-begins/ http://www.thynctank.com/wordpress/2007/12/the-redesign-begins/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:49:54 +0000 thynctank http://www.thynctank.com/wordpress/2007/12/the-redesign-begins/ Well, I’ve finally downloaded my site (and its data) for fiddling with on my localhost. I’m playing with sIFR and plan on developing the front end effects in moo so I can have more experience with it (and to see what all the fuss is about the new classes!) The new design will include actual graphic elements (gasp!) and a much more interesting layout. I’d like to generate a fluid layout that adapts to the current width of the browser (see here) but we’ll see. Will definitely be putting Steve Souders’ ideas into practice as best I can.

The new site will also include links to my professional profiles, online and downloadable copies of my resume, and perhaps a Twitter status box. Yes, I’ve finally given in and become Y.A.T. (yet another twit). Love being able to update my facebook status and Adium status. (via TwitterPost)

Oh, and I promised Dan a new WordPress plugin for showing off random Flickr images. So I’ve got some work ahead of me. At some point I’d like to get back to Rails and Hooyip, but I’ve had to waste a lot of time on Super Mario Galaxy lately… (which is beaten, btw)

Since I’ve recently had to develop some reusable JavaScripted components at work (so far a nice nav, a simple tab control and a carousel) using jQuery, I imagine my next major post will be about how to recreate those. Maybe after that I’ll finally get around to describing the ratings widget I made for Point.com! Or perhaps I should start with one on an intro article on JS and move on to unobtrusive JS and bits of DOM. I know a few friends might benefit from such babble.

The new CMS at work (Tridion) is rough to play with, I really hope it ends up being worth our while. (let alone the cost!)

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What this does is filter all email addresses on your site and converts them into numeric HTML entities. It also wraps them in mailto links as a convenience. In future versions I’ll add a configuration page where this is made optional.

Allan Odgaard of Macromates has casually tested this method of protection with good results, and in the week or two since I wrote the plugin, my spam has not gone up at all. I receive about 2-3 junk emails per day on that address, and have for a good two years now.

So, it seems to be working rather well. If you’d like to make use of this plugin, feel free to download it here:

entitizer.zip

Simply unzip, upload into your WordPress plugins directory, and activate via the Plugins page of the Admin panel. Or you could try out OneClick for WordPress from Thought Outflux. Pretty damn cool.

Feel free to modify the code. Let me know of any modifications, ask questions, request new features or report bugs via thynctank@thynctank.com.

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