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Web Application Development

How to embed a flash Video in Feature Box with Thesis Theme

July 2, 2009

For all you Thesis fans out there (myself included), I have written a (really) short tutorial on how to include a flash video in your feature box.  First I tried the most logical and easiest method of putting an object in the feature but that didn’t seem to work.  So, I decided to try the [...]

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Common Multiple Import Plugin errors

June 27, 2009

Multiple Import is a plugin written by Michael Ha, who is a colleague of mine.  This plugin allows the admin to import multiple blogs from the same server to one specific blog.  Because this plugin can import all the blogs linked to the server, it is important to limit the permission to use this plugin [...]

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Modifying mxc-ldap plugin to create a new blog for new user

June 27, 2009

The mxc-ldap plugin has a simplified layout because it does not have any graphic interface to input the LDAP server information.  To enter the information, open the mxc-ldap.php file andfill in LDAP_HOST, LDAP_PORT (389), LDAP_VERSION, BASE_DN, ADMIN_DN, ADMIN_PW.  The plugin seems to work without the ADMIN_DN and the ADMIN_PW.  The plugin as default will create [...]

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Modifying Mike Smullin’s List Author plugin to work with Wordpress 2.7 and 2.8

June 27, 2009

The list authors plugin by Mike Smullin listed the authors of all the posts in the blog in the sidebar; when the user presses on the name, all the posts by the user will be filters.  however, this plugin only worked up until 2.6.3.  At 2.7.1, the plugin simply didn’t show up on the Dashboard.
The [...]

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Spammers be gone

June 2, 2009

Not even one month after setting up this blog, I was getting ridiculously spammed on my Home page.  Although 3 or 4 a day might not seem like a lot, these spam messages do add up.  So I had to make a site a littler uglier and install reCaptcha.
EDIT: decided to go back to Akismet [...]

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