Category Archives: Technical

Technical

Testing Socialite

Let’s see if the Socialite addon will begin crossposting to MySpace and Facebook…

Edit: Well, apparently it doesn’t. The host has PHP5 and cURL turned on…so I have no clue why it’s not working. Too bad, this plugin showed great promise. But it seems the author hasn’t worked on it in awhile.

Edit 2: Well just now as I look at my FB wall, I see it…curious as to why it’s not showing up when I post originals…this warrants more testing.

Edit 3: FB wall looks like it is receiving the crossposts from Socialite. However MySpace is not working…which is really no big loss.

Technical

Plugin hassles

I’ve been test-driving some social networking plugins such as Lifestream and the Facebook Dashboard Widget, and I’ve come to the conclusion that some of these things are just too user-unfriendly. As much as I like Lifestream, it appears that Facebook closed their API so that I can’t grab my status feeds from them. What does this mean? Well, it’s not the plugin’s fault that a well-known social networking site decided to shut off public access to feeds. But given that it is one of a few sites that I regularly check up on, would it be too much trouble to have an RSS feed work from it? At this point, I’m thinking I should just use blog RSS feeds, such as the one by Blogger, or a proprietary widget, from MySpace for example, to fill my sidebar.

Lifestream doesn’t work actually, it just fails to reload my dashboard page whenever I attempt to add a feed, so I’ve dropped it.

I found another annoyance: it seems that the newest Sidebar Login plugin is wreaking havoc with my sidebar formatting. I’ve rolled back to 2.1.7 to correct the issue, since I don’t have time right now to root around the code to fix it. Besides that, I dislike the gravatar image that was added in 2.2.1. It would be more appropriate in a personal site, but seems out of place in a multi-user portal site.

Technical

Crossposting to unify social networking sites

I’ve been researching ways on pulling together my online presence into my WordPress site and I’ve found some interesting addons that may at least link up MySpace and Facebook (and other well-known networking sites).

Since I know Ynygma is into Facebooking, I thought the Facebook Dashboard Widget might be an interesting enhancement to the WordPress experience. If you’re interested in crossposting, then perhaps the Socialite addon is worth a look. ShareThis accomplishes this task with a larger list of networking/bookmarking sites to choose from. I’m still in search of an addon or widget that will pull MySpace info into WP but because it’s known to be the most proprietary of the networking sites out there, chances are slim that an addon will do what I want it to do. If anybody finds something with this kind of functionality, then please let me know!

Technical

Vista with a cleaner face

After fooling around with Vista, I decided to try my luck with Windows 7 beta…and no surprises here, it’s just Vista with a cleaned up act. Unfortunately the same error occurring in Vista (Nvlddmkm stopped responding) is still present in Windows 7. I finally had to suck it up and down-clocked my rig back to stock settings, at which point, Windows 7 happily obliged and behaved itself. What a bummer!